Agreed on all fronts!

Good luck! It’s tough, kids want to be able to put things in categories so they have a greater feeling of understanding and control, but grown ups can really help.

I love this. I'm going to make up my own tune and use those lyrics with my daughter. She's juuuuust starting to make assumptions, and I'm hoping to nip it in the bud ASAP.

Good to know. I know it’s biased, but I don’t really trust Nintendo not to take a step backwards even as they go forward.

I’m just excited to design some more “inappropriate” clothing options that my villagers can eventually pick up and wear.

Oh hell no

I have college freshmen who were born in 2001

My 5 year old wears dresses, and has helped start some dialogs at school around gender. After another boy got bullied a little for long hair (not even that long!), the teachers taught them a song “There’s no such thing as a boy thing, there’s no such thing as a girl thing, there’s just a lot of fun things, that we can…

Yeah, the image at the top is just one of several random poses your character will do after you choose an outfit. They’re not all as femme.

I suspect it's for the sake of pronouns and titles.

I am ready to be goddamned fabulous.

> I never found this dialogue offensive, but it certainly felt out of place in Animal Crossing.

To be fair, I think most of us are from before 2001 :p

YES. Thrilled to know that they’ve chopped out that dumb commentary from Mabel in ACNL. It sounds like it came straight from a business executive who suddenly isn’t sure about what they’re marketing, is not entirely comfortable with it and is silently worrying if this means that their son will start wearing dresses…

Pocket Camp did it too. I have a male character wearing Isabelle’s summer work attire.

nice! I’m still picking the cutest girly looking character, but it’s great they’re providing this freedom.

You choose between male- and female-presenting figures during character creation but it doesn’t exclude you from hairstyles or facial features like in previous games.

The line from Mabel never bothered me.  I read it as it surprised her a little bit but ultimately she was very accepting.  Either case I’m always glad animal crossing allows for these options.