Beloved

I still have a blaze left this month and want to have some fun with it. Now that Elden Ring is a household name, let's travel back to 2015 and look at one of Fromsoft's weirder offerings! Bloodborne has earned a bit of a reputation for its bosses, and all of the ones listed below are literally actually in the game... except one. Which is it?

If you're familiar with Bloodborne, please choose the last option and share this to your friends who don't have your insight!

Also, while I've got the Bloodborne fans here, check out the hunter's mark tattoo I got a few years ago!

I highly recommend reading the book for yourself, but I'll give an excerpt from chapter 5 that hopefully explains the theory. I've added single quotation marks where I feel the wording is a bit dated, but I hope you'll agree the theory itself remains sensible

"Perhaps the best way to describe how my subconscious sex feels to me is to say that it seems as if, on some level, my brain expects my body to be 'female.' Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that our brains have an intrinsic understanding of what sex our bodies 'should' be. For example, there have been numerous instances in which male infants have been surgically reassigned as female shortly after birth due to botched circumcisions or cloacal exstrophy (a non-intersex medical condition). Despite being raised female and appearing to have 'female' genitals, the majority of such children eventually come to identify as male, demonstrating that brain sex may override both socialization and genital sex"

Serano writes a few pages later, building off of this theory and toward what she calls "gender dissonance":

"For me, the hardest part about being trans has not been the discrimination or ridicule that I have faced for defying societal gender norms, but rather the internal pain I experienced when my subconscious and conscious sexes were at odds with one another... subconsciously seeing myself as female while consciously dealing with the fact that I was [physically] 'male'."