Life, Love, Cartoons and Politics

Brushing my teeth is my arch nemesis, the bane of my existence, the bringer of evil and hardship, my enemy and my unreachable goal, the wall that stands strongly between me and being a somewhat functional 26 year old, a true symbol of incompetence and failure and...

Okay, I'm exedurating. But also I'm not. I have struggled with brushing my teeth all my life, but what I have struggled with even more is the shame I feel because of it.

"This shouldn't be hard, this shouldn't be an issue, I shouldn't be struggling with this."

And then there's the fact that there's a nonbinary button... Which is something I genuinely did not think possible yet. I don't think people are talking about how big this is - the is probably one of the most MAJOR and VISIBLE media out there to ever include nonbinary representation, and this is NINTENDO we're talking about. The company that will shy away from Anything that might give them intense backlash. Displaying a third option labeled "nonbinary" directly smack in the character creator of their new hit game that people have been waiting for for over a decade. It's not only visible, it's UNAVOIDABLE. If you want to play Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream you HAVE to be reminded that we exist every time you open the character creator just like women and men. I mean, how many people will buy the game and not know what the word even means, and become more familiar with nonbinary genders because of this? Acknowledgement in the general public consciousness like this is going to kickstart something huge.