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Comic version of this post made by @penny-anna.

i also took some martial arts in school and hated it. i took it up only bcos my best friend was doing it and at all times was like 'i wish i was spending my lunchbreak doing Anything Else'. i was also bad at it.

before anyone is like 'well you don't have to be good at an activity to enjoy it-' yes you do. sorry. when it comes to Sports if you are bad enough at it, you simply do not get to access the fun part. for example: me and my best friend used to 'play tennis' together in PE lessons but we were both extremely bad at tennis so we would just take it in turns to serve the ball at each other over and over bcos neither of us could hit it back. this was not fun.

i did a lot of musical theatre extra curriculars including dance as a teen and this was probably the one i enjoyed the most but once you hit a certain age there is an Expectation that you will want to get good at it. i was not a good dancer and struggled a lot with memorising the routines. this was not fun. it is not fun doing an activity you are bad at while surrounded by people who are better at it than you.

like how pokemon games have anti-homeless architecture in the background. i can totally believe that whoever modelled the anti-homeless bench and put it into the world was not thinking about the politics of being homeless and how homelessness is seen by the world, they were just putting in a bench like the benches they've seen in the real world.

but it still implies some kind of initiative to stop homeless people sleeping in public. like, that legislature is implicitly in place just because of that bench, nobody designs benches like that unless they're for that specific purpose

there's something similar in the new tomodachi life. your miis have three gender options - male, female, and nonbinary - which is great! when you choose a nonbinary mii, you can choose their pronouns, and whether the game will put them in masculine-coded clothing, feminine-coded clothing, or either, in scenes where the game overrides your choices and gives them clothes

the thing is, that option isn't given at creation for male or female miis. you can go back in and change it later for any mii, but the game doesn't tell you that's an option, you have to find that. similarly, if your mii is male, they will default to he/him, and if your mii is female, they will defailt to she/her.

more egregiously, while you are always given the option to define your mii's sexuality, it's in a secondary menu after you pick gender - and if your mii is set to male, he will be set up to be attracted to women and nobody else by default, and if your mii is set to female, she will be set up to be attracted to men and nobody else.

and i don't think the developers of tomodachi life were thinking of this explicitly. but like, the implication is that the default way to exist is to be straight, the default way to be a man is masculine and dressing masculine, and the default way to be a woman is feminine and dressing feminine

I actually like Moffat’s theme across his era here. Because a lot of people see it as him saying “acting like the Doctor will get you killed” but stop halfway, like he’s saying doing that is wrong. But really it’s “acting like the Doctor will get you killed; but you should still do it anyway.”

Which is what Twelve says himself.