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There are 6 genders, Your can be up, down, strange, charmed, a top or a bottom.

Though if you're really anti-establishment you can also be the exact opposite to any of those.

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Endorsements just keep pouring in

As bad as Reagan was, he wasn't trying to sell out the country nearly as blatantly as Donald Trump is. For the staff of one of the most conservative presidents in recent memory to say they would support the liberal candidate is not so much a bad thing for Kamala's campaign as it is a bleak commentary on the state of reality.

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Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]".

Let this be a lesson: if you try to forcibly pry open the gates of DRM hell and let software be free, you best let it be truly free and only money off it from the donations of your supporters. Don't be like yuzu and monetize the living hell out of your emulator. Don't stuff it with telemetry, don't hide releases behind a patreon paywall.

That all being said, fuck Nintendo.

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IMO, whether or not Gwen is canonically transgender is irrelevant, because thematically the two are equivalent. Being spider-woman is allegorical for being transgender.

  • She knew she was different before anyone else did
  • The way that she's different would affect how others see her once they find out, very possibly putting her in danger, depending on who finds out and how hateful/vengeful they are.
  • She could theoretically quash that part of herself and live the way everyone expects her to, but to do so would be to kill a piece of who she is
  • She had to "Come out" to her dad (and not by choice, really. She only did so because she was caught with her new clothes.)
  • She wasn't accepted for who she was in that coming out, but knew it would be easier to live without her closest family member's support than to live without being herself.
  • She found a community of others like her, who all have unique but similar experiences and who are eager to support one another.

The colors may be an indication that Gwen specifically is trans, or a hint to the audience that to be a Spider-person is an allegory for being trans. Her character was designed with the white, pink, and blue color scheme in 2014, so it's not all that unlikely that the color scheme was an allusion to the trans pride flag on purpose. Maybe a writer or character designer clarified somewhere exactly how intentional or coincidental this Spider-Gwen/Transgender connection is, would be cool to see if so.

At the end of the day, the story serves to make people more empathetic to others who have to weigh their identity against their safety, especially in cases where the facet of their identity in question could be intentionally kept hidden.