guilty gear is so funny imagine you hear about some ruthless bounty hunter coming after you and then it’s some cute girl in a dysphoria hoodie doing yoyo tricks, holding a teddy bear and constantly stimming by bouncing around and humming to herself.
and then she knocks one of your teeth out with her yoyo, which is giant and made of stainless steel and has .357 hollowpoint loaded into its side for some goddamn reason, and her teddy bear suddenly grows to 3x its size and glomps you before bodyslamming you with the force of a semi truck, while the girl rides on its back and shouts “rooooock the baby! :3”
the teddy bear then shrinks to normal teddy bear size and she gives it a cheerful double high five while she prepares to drag your unconscious ass to the Post-War Administration Bureau for bounty collection
i made this post as sort of a joke but like… genuinely it is really something i love love LOVE about guilty gear and bridget. like. there’s all these badass masculine anime men doing their things, and then there’s just bridget being her weird lil girlself, being uncompromisingly queer, not being treated as an other or an existential threat, just vibing without judgment. she’s making her own way, and not only is she holding her own, not only is she successful—she’s straight up fucking THRIVING in this weird, weird world.
a world where we can exist freely without men abusing us is very possible. men and trans women can coexist without being existential threats to one another. unless the entire social institution of masculinity and the transmisogyny upholding it is torn down and completely rethought, this will never become the rule instead of the exception, but that world isn’t unfathomable. it’s not unthinkable. we’re not inherently repulsive, or threatening, or unlovable. we’re just girls. so never get it in your head that the state of things is natural. that this is how things have to be. your heart is a muscle the size of your fist
