8 June

Young Chinese women now go ‘boy sober’ and date guys acting in roles from online games and movies instead. ‘Cosplay’ culture. Adolescents love to play with roles, in the 1970s androgyny was big, mostly men camping it up. None of those men thought they were women, they were playing with roles. Pantomime in UK culture has done the same forever. I think most people who identify as trans are cosplaying gender, in the same way. But because the world is now increasingly social media, we live our lives on it, they mistake that role-playing for reality. They think role-playing as a woman makes you a woman. Social media bubbles become actual worlds. The line between fantasy and reality is not only blurred, it’s collapsed.