This implies that being trans is a decision. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to choose whether you have schizophrenia or autism or ADHD too? Do it for attention for a while, mayhaps, and then once it starts getting tiring go back to normal?

Not to mention that being a man automatically means being breadwinners/leaders/whatever is a bit of an outdated way of thinking. Gender equality still has a long way to go, but damn, successful women in stem exist and I would like to think that you can at least choose to become a househusband in this day and age… And if one truly cannot find a woman that wins enough to support both, maybe they can just “choose” to swing the other way? Have you asked your husband if he’s ever thought about doing that? It’d be a very reasonable financial decision, I encourage him to give it a thought.

And it’s not as though being trans is a walk in the park. If one chooses to be trans, they’re going to get a life with far, far more worries than if they’d just stayed as the gender they were assigned at birth. Tons of people who hate them just for existing will appear, and whether they lose the right to exist could change in the future…

Why would you need to link a study to be able to say that something looks like crap?

As for why it looks like crap, tbh it’s likely just because our letters are very thin. Vertically, an l would take the same space in the line as an ー which makes absolutely no sense and makes the lines look like enshittified junk food. On the other hand, the characters in the languages you showed are squarish, which means that they look good in both orientations.

As for why it’s hard to read, as someone who’s learning japanese, it’s likely because people are just not used to it. While I started reading R-L fairly early in my learning journey and had no problem getting used to it, I had a friend who only started reading R-L after he was already pretty much fluent in the language, and he told me that he found reading it a little tricky despite reading L-R no problem. I assume that he read words, not letters, and reading in an orientation he was not used to threw him off. On the other hand, I was still learning so I read each character individually, which was why I didn’t feel much of a difference.

Hmm, I’m personally not sure whether I’d call it an allegiance. As far as I’ve seen, it’s mostly about belonging to the group being talked about.

For instance, in the context of the comic “Men’s egos can sometimes be fragile” would be parsed as “Your ego can sometimes be fragile” leading to an unconscious feeling of being attacked, which ultimately ends up in an emotional defensive response of trying to separate oneself from the group being talked about (“Not all men!”) which, ironically, in this comic’s context, only confirms what’s being said.

This is also how I personally parse that woman and the bear thing. Men see themselves as the “random man” and feel personally attacked when someone picks the bear. Emotional defensive responses ensue.

Nevertheless, I still like the way you phrased it. And asking oneself whether one is what’s being talked about might be a great way to dampen the unconcious response.

Just a heads-up, regardless of the reason (might even have been accidental) it’s not a very healthy thing to be looking this deeply into upvotes or downvotes. Some twerps are always going to downvote the most agreeable statement, or upvote the most eggregious one. Trying to jump into conclusions about why that one person might have downvoted the post is a futile waste of time that might very well make you reach conclusions that are just not grounded in reality and further dwindle your faith in humanity for no reason at all…

Why not use KOReader on both the android and the kobo devices and use KOReader-sync to sync them?

With this many partners don’t you get afraid of catching STDs? How do you manage that?

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Could you elaborate?