submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

School banned boys from wearing shorts during a heatwave, so they wore skirts.

*Re-uploaded because shitty AI white-washing

https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/europe/british-schoolboys-skirt-protest-heatwave

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  • [–] 67 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder why they felt the need to run the actual photo through an AI slop machine?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    honestly what you posted just looks like a different image from the same photo session. not seeing anything too wrong with the original post

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    It's not, look at the color of the tie of the boy on the center right. It's blue in the original and yellow in the edit.

    Putting photos through AI filters is what a lot of content farms/thieves do to not get caught by copyright filters.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Also the darkest kid and the most ginger kid together on the center left are more, uh, Anglicized in the AI version.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Holy shit. Well, re-uploaded the real picture because holy fuck that's awful.

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  • [–] 59 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

    I think I've seen a story like this posted every 6 months for years now.

    Edit: the other story that has been recycled regularly since the dawn of time is the story of a young undergrad woman hooking up with some older sugar daddy to fund her university fees.

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  • [–] 71 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    We need daily stories like this. Normalise boys wearing skirts.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    My job includes going to a lot of weddings, and I probably do two weddings a year where someone shows up in a kilt. One wedding had the entire Groom's side in kilts. Not the groom, though, he had on a tux. The Bride wasn't letting it go that far.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    One boy in year nine (eighth grade in the United States), who was also sporting a skirt, said the protest had started with five boys, but he expected “hundreds” to join in.

    Asked if he enjoyed the feeling of wearing a skirt, he said: “It’s just a nice breeze.”

    Another boy, in year 10, said he was “put in isolation” for wearing shorts to school on the previous day.

    A mother with a 14-year-old son at Isca said: “My son wanted to wear shorts but was told he would be put in the isolation room for the rest of the week.”

    She added, “The head teacher told them ‘Well you can wear a skirt if you like’ but I think she was being sarcastic. However children tend to take you literally and so five boys turned up in skirts today – and because she told them it was OK there was nothing she could do as long as they are school skirts.”

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What is "the isolation room"? That sounds terrifying.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago

    How long until anti-trans campaigners complain and try and ban this, you know, because Terf Island.

    Anyway Modern Problems require Scottish Solutions!

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    Kilts cover the knees and are more heavily pleated

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    most of those kilt rules aren't Scottish.

    The English banned kilts, except for the military. the results was that the kilt became a formal military uniform. And therefore full of strict rules on how to wear it. traditionally, you could wear a kilt or a great kilt however the fuck you wanted. it was what the people wore, from plebs to royals.

    IE, fuck the English, be ungovernable

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    be the belief you want to change in the underworldwear

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    even if i gender my fluid, i cant de my age

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    [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Is this how Scotland was born?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I salute our future!

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Cute skirts. I'd wear it....

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