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Hero: … who?

Villain: Frank! Franklin Jones! Wears my henchmen’s uniform, had the key to my door, GOT MURDERED BY SOME ASSHOLE TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS KID’S BALLET RECITAL?!

Hero: … you know your henchmen’s names?

Villlain: OF COURSE I DO! I SEE THESE PEOPLE EVERY DAY! THEY’RE MY FRIENDS! What, you thought I just went to the fucking minion store and bought three hundred assistants?! People don’t work for evil overlords unless they really like the evil overlord!

Hero: Well, I mean, I though henchmen were just kinda… there?

Villain: … you thought Frank. Whom I entrusted with the key to my personal chamber. Who I named the godfather of my children. Was just. There.

Hero: YOU HAVE KIDS?!

Villain: HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THAT?! WE’VE BEEEN NEMESI FOR DECADES!

Hero: WHY WOULD I KNOW THAT? YOU’RE AN ASSHOLE I WANT DEAD!

Why we haven’t figured out that children are due the same level of self-identity and respect is fucking beyond me.

Later, when it came to the instances of orphanages and charity schools, the goal was less to be a leveller than it was to instil a sense of “humility, lower class status and expected social role.” As researcher Kate Stephenson notes: “In these [poorer] institutions uniforms functioned as both a practical method of ensuring children were sufficiently clothed and a way by which the working class status of pupils could be reinforced. Garments sought to inculcate humility in the children designating their role and intended career paths within society whilst also indicating their lowly status and demonstrating the difference between them and people of higher rank. This is demonstrated through, not only the design of the uniform, but the colour and type of fabric used to manufacture them. Blue was most prominent in charity uniforms and this dye was cheap and generally associated with the clothing of servants and the working classes.” 

They were never meant for the purposes of equality, but rather to be an immediate shorthand for who’s rich and who’s poor. The class equality argument is entirely a fiction. 

They are not “good things” and they are do not reduce bullying. Like, at all. 

Several studies have shown that school bullying is actually far worse in the UK (where school uniform as an institution is ubiquitous) than it is in other European countries (where it is not). Similar studies have also shown they do nothing to improve learning or test results. 

School uniform is in place to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to assert control and dominance over children for the peace of mind of adults.  

This quote pretty much sums it up for me: 

[Efrat] Tseëlon, a social psychologist specialising in visual appearance, says the British devotion to uniform reflects “a general etiquette towards children” defined by power, control and a lack of trust. There is no evidence that uniforms increase discipline and arguments about “levelling” are just “conscience laundering” – uniforms are used for precisely the opposite purpose by fee-paying (and an increasing number of specialist state) schools: as a badge of distinction. 

Republicans when 200K Americans die:

Republicans when you make fun of Trump getting COVID:

So, for that matter, is capturing and enslaving sex workers, or people who use drugs, or people who steal from fucking Walmart.