Yeah, I was trying to hit both sides of the argument, to head off a dodge. Probably did it a little clumsily. The “also” in my sentence “It is also absolutely possible for people to have no interest in sex” was meant to cover being asexual, but then I was unclear in the following sentence and kinda mucked it up. No…

Do you just go around looking for things to trigger you, or are you just triggered all the time by everything? If you go into articles about things that upset you just to upset yourself, you may be ignoring your own mental issues. Wanting to wear different clothes is not a mental issue, wanting to be angry about…

Will do as soon as you can prove to me more than two genders exist.

the commonly accepted scientific consensus among biologists, psychologists and sociologists is that more than two genders exist. no one needs to prove it to you, you need to educate yourself.

While inspired by LGBTQ students (yay!), it’s a bonus for the cis female students as well. My mother got her school’s skirt policy changed in the 60s — all of the girls in the school staged a “pant-in” (that is, they all showed up wearing pants) and there was even a newspaper article about it.

Sure, just as soon as you scan and upload that PhD in psychology from a credible university~

totally agreed, I went to high school in Japan and at first I hated the idea of wearing a uniform, but I quickly realized that 1. it got rid of class signifiers and made kids from high income families and kids from working class families look like equals, 2. it’s convenient and saves time - you roll out of bed in the…

To be fair they are both famous. The foreigner is from LadyBaby and the older older person is Hideaki Kobayashi “Sailor Suit Old Man”. Both were featured on Kotaku.

I’ve been here long enough that the weirdest part of that picture is that there’s a foreigner in it.

It’s less an out-of-the-blue surprise rather more an inevitable step forward. And uniform-swapping is not unprecedented in Japan.

Holy shit those kids are so lucky. I hated my school’s male uniform so much and fantasised about this exact scenario pretty much every day (and fucking hated myself super intensely for being some kind of broken sex deviant because I had no idea being trans was even a thing).

True, it’s progressive for Japan, but it’s still got pretty bad wrinkles of weirdness, if you think about it.

Damn, that’s like SUPER progressive for Japan.

I just want to remind everyone that you do not there is a batter option to take care of the trolls that will inevitably swarm the comment section rather than dog-pilling on them with replies and pushing their thread to the top of the comments section.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, which has you recounting the story of your the Prince’s adventure as a framing device, would have some wonderfully silly moments when you died and the Prince-as-narrator would insist, “No, wait, that didn’t happen.”

I remember in Prince of Persia: The Edgyness Within, every time you died, you got a slightly different gameover screen depending on how you wiped (combat, boss, falling down an endless pit, falling down and splatting, etc). For some reason that compelled me to die in increasingly creative ways just to see them all.

Of course, I did at some point beat FTL and it felt fucking amazing.

Yeah I forget there are some snooty rich ladies on Jez until I read shitty comments like the “meth” ones. People like that are so disconnected, they should just stick to giving their opinions to their internet connected smart appliances.

Or if service-sector jobs paid as well and were as stable as the kinds of blue-collar jobs people want back.

Every time I hear that another swath of K Marts are closing, I worry. My hometown’s KMart (rural NY) is the only non-food store that’s standing. It’s a desperately poor area where many people’s lives are constrained by the fact that always-reliable cars are a luxury, and the KMart is a necessary walkable option.…