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I really don’t understand why people have problems with this. It’s just clothes and it’s not like these clothes would disappear simply because a skirt wouldn’t be labeled for a specific gender. If anything it would encourage people to experiment even more with style when we lose these expectations on gender performance in vein of what clothes a person wears.

Hear hear!

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@cikame said:

"Most male birds, such as robins or chaffinches, are at their brightest and most colourful at the start of spring. They hope their fresh new plumage will attract a female. Many female birds are less colourful - they don’t want to attract attention when sitting on the nest."

... not sure that quote works like i wanted it to... basically looking good is good, looking neutral is fine but you won't stand out, it has nothing to do with clothing choice and everything to do with nature.

So when I wear women's jeans, am I sticking it to nature?

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There has indeed been a debate, especially considering some of the non-canon appearances like the cartoon picture above, where he takes it off.

But now Koizumi has now confirmed, they are indeed a part of a Toad's head, and not an accessory.

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@kuku said:

Maybe try doing something like this:

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I am not sure about materials, but man, your imagination is the limit.

Add a piece of black curtain in the pipe to get the effect of jumping between two different places.

Add simple arduino with motion sensor that plays warp sound every time you slide through.

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You can also add some handles for a better slide.

But it kinda breaks the immersion. Well, you can always do a crawl, like a filthy animal.

Oh wow, did you make that? That's pretty amazing, thanks.

Have been meaning to look into arduino for various projects, but none yet have made it a 'must have', especially since there is quite a bit of tinkering involved to get them to work.

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@humanity said:

@harbinlights: Why would you want to erase gender lines entirely when men and women are fundamentally different on so many levels? Fitted clothes are always going to look and fit better than unisex clothes meant to encompass a broad range of body shapes and sizes. Different waist lines, different cuts in regards to genital regions, different neck lines.. I mean I just don't see a practical reason why we would want to conform fashion to a single line? You can have diverse clothing tailored for men and vice versa that blur the accepted social norms but are still cut and fit with a specific gender in mind.

I mean, I wear women's clothes and they fit me just fine?

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#6  Edited By HarbinLights

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@harbinlights: Well, I guess you truly made your point.

I did say truly twice, I guess. But I do favor something more akin to social determinism than genetic determinism. And not always for the most logical reasons, admittedly. If I were to give in to believing all of the things evolutionary psychologist say about the hardwiring about human nature, I'd sink into a pretty terrible misanthropy. So advocating change, and belief that it is possible, is the only recourse I have for acting liking people and a biological category.

Also, I have this lingering feeling that such claims don't add up. There's not a lot of peer reviewed studies leading to firm evidence that gendered, racial, or any other demographic behavior or statistical tendency is biologically hardwired. There's a lot of claims, but I don't really see any hard evidence, that is, things like peer reviewed studies, showing that we are any more hardwired to behave a certain way based on gender, than we are do be based on something like race or hair color or skin color or the shape of our noses or something like that. And considering that race doesn't exist, I think there are similar implications for gender and common beliefs about gendered preferences and behavior.

Either that, or I simply have a very different biology than the vast majority of humanity. And that differing biology is seemingly on a collision course with said humanity.

Someone who doesn't like any gender norms is not who I am from some kind of ideological brainwashing or anything like that. It's been a fundamental feeling that has welled up and festered inside of me since before I went through puberty. I'm just following the same path I've been on ever since I can remember, having a burning irritation with any and all gender norms that I always have to get out of my system, so long as I'm forced to live in a world where they exist. I would call this irritated feeling with gender norms a fundamental part of my psychology and a static, predictable part of who I am at this point.

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@theht said:
just for the sake of it resulting in people who are open/curious/interested in wearing something outside of their socially defined prospective wardrobe feeling less disinclined to do so.

Yes, please! This is exactly the kind of direction I want things to go!

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#8  Edited By HarbinLights

Good gracious, I sure don't want to look broad and bulky.

Truly, "human nature" in all ways it is described, is an unrelenting dystopian machine. When most describe human nature and biological hardwiring, I can't help but feel a wave of misanthropy coming over me.

Are all of our 'natures' truly garbage, generating systems worthy of disgust and contempt? And here I thought with social engineering we could change. But perhaps on a fundamental level, we are simply monsters of bile.

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@zeik said:

I don't think we're anywhere near a point where society as a whole would accept completely gender neutral clothing. This is not even just right wing conservative issue. The vast majority of people on all sides prefer to dress according to gender norms, relatively speaking. I personally have no issue with a man wanting to wear feminine clothing or vice versa, but I have zero interest in doing so myself, and frankly it's hard enough to find clothes that work for me without having to sort through women's clothing as well.

Society would need to undergo some pretty significant changes for that to be something an average department store would even consider doing. Maybe it will happen someday, but we're definitely not there now.

I'm willing to bet you're right, and that society is a long way from anywhere close to what I'd personally find appealing in terms of gender, or anything else, really.

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I'm not going to lie, I definitely want to try this out.