Video games have become one of the greatest forms of artistic expression and storytelling, yet like every branch of art, you’re going to get a few people who use it to create self-soothing political propaganda that you’re supposed to like because the message is a comment on something.
Like most pieces of “artistic” political propaganda, there’s little effort put into it, but where there’s little skill involved what is included in droves is a lot of self-inserted insecurities and personal grudges.
Take, for instance, a new game that has appeared on the Steam virtual game store called “Terfenstein 3D.”
The game was made by a transgender developer named Sandra Moen who took the base idea of 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D and changed it so that instead of battling your way through Nazi forces, you’re battling through “gender fascists,” most of whom seem to be actual women.
Just to make sure the bases are covered, Moen seemed to throw some priests in there as well.
Moen describes the game as Wolfenstein rip-off with LGBT themes. It takes place in an alternate reality where “fascists have killed and imprisoned all transgender and queer people.” You’re one of the few that escaped and it’s up to you to carve a path of death and destruction in an act of revenge as you escape.
Despite this being a game that clearly goes on the offensive, Moen manages to strike a tone of self-victimization, saying this evokes “very real transphobic violence many transgender people face for just existing.” Moen then compares “gender critics” to Nazis.
Here’s Moen’s full description:
Terfenstein 3D is a first-person shooter game with a retro style from the early ’90s. Consider it a creative iteration mix of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom 1. You will be progressing through seven levels of increasing difficulty and complexity with a set of six classical weapons arsenal and five traditional enemies.
The game offers LGBTQAI+, transgender, and feminist themes of gender-critical people and what a post-war apocalyptic world would look like if gender fascists won. In this dystopian world, fascists have killed and imprisoned all transgender and queer people, subjecting them to harsh conversion therapy, imprisonment, and death. You play as an escapee fleeing their detention center, while you exact your revenge.
This game brings to light the very real transphobic violence many transgender people face for just existing. And draw a comparison between gender critics and nazi Germany.Developed over four months, this solo project is one of many controversial games the developer has made. Being able to artistically express yourself is a proven way to heal trauma and possibly also move on. This game also hopes to achieve that for players who need it through gameplay that would stir up hidden and muddied emotions. Please take care of yourself and your loved ones.
The last paragraph is an interesting look into the deluded mind of a transgender activist. While video games can indeed lend to healing trauma and even help deal with depression, this isn’t what Moen is doing. This is just hatred. It’s not even a parody of hatred like Postal 2. It’s just a transgendered person self-inserting into a video game and killing people because of a clear infection of both jealousy and bigotry.
This exposes a real problem within the transgender movement. Men who claim to be women seem to develop a real hatred of women and wish to punish them in some form or fashion. This rears its head in various ways. Here we see it in video games, but we’ve also seen this attitude in sports.
This disturbing brand of overt hostility toward women, or even just people who have different ideals than them in general, seems to be getting more open and abundant. The internet has clearly made people far braver than they would be in person.
But despite everything, this game and Moen’s attitude, are a sign that these people need help and that our society needs to start turning away from the trans trend more than anything. They’ve deluded themselves into thinking they’re in some sort of war for their lives. In turn, they’re turning to fantasize about hurting others.
Hopefully, that fantasy stays a fantasy, but don’t count on it.
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