In the Lake Windsor High Seagulls, Erik has overcome his setback and is now a local hero for his success as a placekicker. He has been featured on the front page of the Tangerine Times sports section. Paul has also been doing well in soccer. He has played in all seven of the War Eagles' games, and they have won them all by wide margins. Paul is thrilled to be a part of it.
Both brothers seem to be on a successful run. But Paul's success is built on hard work and character, whereas Erik, although he no doubt has a talent for football, has serious character flaws that will eventually undermine all his efforts.
Paul gets his mom to drive him over to Luis's so he can see the tangerine nursery again. He works with Luis and Tino, hauling out hoses and laying them out up and down the rows of trees. After a long day in the sun, Paul is exhausted, but he is pleased when Tino suggests that he should be the one who does the final report for the science group. Later, Paul confesses to Tino that he was the one who had ratted out the Tangerine Middle soccer players regarding the vandalism at the carnival. Tino gives him a not very hard kick in the backside in response.
Paul fits in well at the nursery. He gets along with Luis and forms a bond with Tino. He sees a purpose in the work that he does there. Again there is an implicit contrast with Erik, who is interested only in getting glory on the football field.
The entire Fischer family is invited to visit Mr. Donnelly, who has many contacts in the University of Florida football world. Dad wants coaches from the area to hear about Erik's achievements. Two other football men, Larry and Frank, are also present. During the evening, Paul is pleased to find that Mr. Donnelly is taking an interest in him, as well as in Erik. After the visit, Erik drives off with his friend Arthur, while Mom, Dad, and Paul walk home.
Erik has mastered the art of socializing on these occasions. He knows when to smile and what to say. He makes a good impression. But what is noticeable here is that Mr. Donnelly also takes some notice of Paul, who over the years has become used to being ignored. Mr. Donnelly chats with him about his soccer playing. This is a sign of the progress that Paul is making.


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Q: \part and text on same page in book documentclass I wonder how to get \part and text on same page with book documentclass. Thanks for any help.
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A: What you need is the titlesec package.
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Can anyone please help me how to reconciliation engine start to fix this.
I'm guessing you imported the CI into a dataset that is not BMC.ASSET, so yes, you will need to reconcile it into BMC.ASSET. The simplest way is to create the Recon job using the 'Create Standard Identification & Merge' job from the Reconciliation page in the Atrium Console. You just have to supply it a name and the Dataset that you specified in the .csv. Run the recon job, and you should be good.
can you please share the steps and details for creating job when I reached on Atrium Core ' Reconciliation page.
When you're on the Reconciliation page, press the "Create Standard Identification & Merge" button in the top left corner (left most of the buttons). Give it a name, and specify the dataset that you used in your .csv. it'll take a minute or so to save the job, then run the job by pressing the play (the arrow with the triangle on it).


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Tag: sarashina ruka
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 24 (S2 Fin) – Dream On
All of Chizuru's aspiring acting peers marvel at how hardworking and dedicated she is, but the truth is she's a surging ball of doubt and anxiety. If she doesn't pass auditions and get this next role, her dream of having her grandmother Sayuri see her performing on screen before she dies is in serious jeopardy of never coming true.
One night, she gets one more friendly rejection text, cries in her dark apartment, and asks the picture of her late grandfather Katsuhito to stop smirking and tell her what she should do. We then go seven years into the past, to when Chizuru was a surly seventh grader with no real driving force except "men are idiots".
Chizuru's gran was once an up-and-coming actor, and when Chizuru watches a rented DVD of her performance, that's it: the dreamless kid suddenly has a dream: she wants to be an actor too. Her gran starts warning her just how goddamn difficult that will be, but her gramps is all optimism and gumption…remind you of someone in her present day life?
Chizuru spends her years of middle school and high school learning how to act, and seems well on her way, until Truck-kun claims her gramps' life. Remembering how her grandparents told her the name "Chizuru" comes from a thousand paper cranes and that she was meant to be a talisman of good luck, she runs up and down the local shrine one hundred times to pray for Katsuhiro's recovery.
He doesn't make it, but he is conscious long enough to say his last words to her: dreams always come true. He knew this would be the worst moments of her life, and wanted her to know that she couldn't give up no matter what; no matter how much frustration and tragedy and pain got in the way. But now, faced with yet another rejection for a role and her gran growing frailer by the day, Chizuru is wavering once more.
Enter Kazuya, who blessedly had no screen time or lines for over half of this episode, the better to make this all about Chizuru and not him (for once). He comes to her door with a proposal: crowdfunding a movie for them to make and for her to perform in. It technically would fulfill her dream, and there's actually a better chance of pulling it off than of her getting a role in the same two-month time frame.
Chizuru retreats to her dark apartment to mull it over while Kazuya returns to his and wonders if he just made a huge blunder once again. Naturally, Chizuru sees in Kazuya the same idiotic optimism as her grandfather, but also realizes that his gramps happened to be right: dreams only truly die if you give up on them, and now life is offering her a chance to revive it just when she thought it was all but dead.
Kazuya hears Chizuru's door open and close, her footsteps in the fancy shoes of her rental girlfriend outfit she has yet to change out of, and then a ring on his doorbell. She has one question: Can you really do it? And after thinking about it and saying that he, that they can, Chizuru has to cover her face to hide the flow of emotion. Her dream, now so cracked and fragile by the rigors of reality, is suddenly mended into something she can carry once more.
Kazuya, who took a suggestion of Sumi's and rode with it, fully understands the hard work he'll have to put in. When her gramps was injured, Chizuru knew she could do more for him than sitting around and crying in the hospital, so she ascended the shrine stairs one hundred times until her feet were scratched and black with dirt.
And in the end, the result of that effort was only fleeting—her gramps woke up for only a moment before expiring. Whether she's conscious of it or not, the same qualities in her gramps are apparent in Kazuya seems like big part of why she's falling for him as a romantic partner. But it could also be why she's so hesitant to go down that road: what if she gave her heart to Kazuya, only to lose him? Truck-kun is still out there…
Getting a movie funded and actually making it is sure to make that running up and down the steps barefoot seem like a gentle walk in the park. Kazuya knows it. Chizuru knows it. It could end in failure too, but failure is all but assured if they give up. Kazuya (via Sumi) gave Chizuru the "loophole" she needed to scale down her dream into something more manageable than becoming a movie star before her gran dies.
Will that cause the already nascent feelings she's developed for him to grow? Will they merely maintain the increasingly sturdy friendship they've forged this season? Whither Ruka, Sumi, and above all Mami, the last glimpse of whom is her smirking and asking herself if she has a life (she doesn't)?
Will Kazuya get them involved in this "let's make a movie" venture? Finally, who is that fifth girl, apparently moving into the same building as Kazuya and Chizuru? (At first I thought it was Ruka, but this person has an ahoge, and the blue in her hair is color, not a bow.)
We'll have to wait for a season 3 to find all this out. Until then, I'm glad the focus was on Chizuru for this final episode, learning the full story of her dream, and that the Kazuya we get is a man who proposes strong and achievable action, not moping or fumbling about with his myriad romantic prospects in his head.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 17 Sep 2022 Sun, 18 Sep 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, crowdfunding, cynical, distraught, flashback, grandfather, grandmother, hospital, ichinose katsuhito, ichinose sayuri, kinoshita kazuya, mizuhara chizuru, movie, rejection, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, tragedy, world
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 22 – More than a Lie
Kazuya probably feels like Ruka's kiss, complete with tongue and the requisite saliva strings, lasted the entire week between the last episode and this one. But Ruka felt threatened by Chizuru and didn't want to lose, so she marked her man. She also hastens to notify Kazuya that it was her first kiss, and despite the saying that the first taste like strawberries or lemons, hers just tasted like booze.
A frankly obscene amount of Kazuya inner dialogue ensues as he tries to deal with having been wall-slammed and made out with by Ruka only to have to return to the table with his mom, grandma, and Chizuru, who can all tell something's off about both of them. Gran then produces her gift to Chizuru: her heirloom engagement ring. Chizuru says she couldn't possibly accept it, as one does, but Gran and Kazuya's mom insist.
Having seen how backed in a corner and desperate Ruka is and seeing Chizuru struggle, Kazuya decides he's going to come clean, right then and there, or at least say what needs to be said to shatter the charade. Both Ruka and Chizuru can tell he's about to say something to the effect of "Chizuru and I broke up", but before he can get the works out, Chizuru gets a call…from the hospital.
Her gran is unconscious, so she, Kazuya, and Kazuya's gran take a taxi to the hospital, where they find Chizuru's gran not unconscious, and her usual tough, cheerful self. The grans have fun talking about their young grandkids, and when the doctor asks Chizuru to come with him to talk, she leaves them in Kazuya's care in a very relationship-y way.
After torturing Kazuya a bit, the grans send him to a konbini for snacks, and he meets Chizuru in the dark corridor, where she tells him that things aren't great, and despite her smiles and laughs she doesn't have much time left. Kazuya asks if she's okay, and she puts on a brave front. When he heads to the hospital room to finish coming clean and making things right, Chizuru grabs his sleeve and tells him not to.
She knows her gran is worried about her being along when she's gone, so telling her she and Kazuya broke up on her deathbed simply isn't something she's willing to do. I don't think she's using this as a pretense to remain in…whatever it is she and Kazuya have.
But when she says that whatever is now "more than a lie", it feels like she's saying that more for just her gran's sake. She and Kazuya head home and go their separate ways, and Kazuya curses himself for not being able to do more for her, while also finding himself in a spot where revealing the truth will cause more harm than good.
That said, the lie is still doing harm to Ruka, but when she and Kazuya go on a grammable pancake date, she shows genuine empathy when she asks about Chizuru and her gran. She also decides to call a truce, as with Chizuru's family situation it's just not an appropriate time to continue her "offensive".
That said, she's now convinced that now that they've had their first kiss, they can now kiss whenever. Kazuya's not so sure about that. He's also even more flummoxed that not only Chizuru but also Ruka have decided that the status quo should be maintained until further notice. And that's even before he's aware of whatever it is best girl Sumi is planning to celebrate his birthday…
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 2 Sep 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, bad timing, birthday party, ex-girlfriend, feelings, first kiss, girlfriend, grandmother, hospital, kinoshita kazuya, lies, love triangle, mizuhara chizuru, nuanced, possessive, pretense, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, sitcom, the truth, truce
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 21 – Scents of Hokkaido
It's time for the annual family birthday party Kazuya's grandmother and parents always throw for him, and when he informs gran that her beloved Chizuru's birthday has already passed, she hits him with an air-to-grandson cruise missile of anger and then insists that he invite Chizuru to a shared party.
Kazuya invites Chizuru to the shindig on their balconies, and while she can't make the 5 PM time, she can come later, after she visits her ailing gran in the hospital. Shortly thereafter, Ruka calls Kazuya to wish him a happy birthday, and catches wind of the party. That afternoon she shows up all dolled up, ready to join the party.
Since Kazuya's fam knows Ruka as "Chizuru's friend" it's not that strange that she shows up with him, and Ruka is quite right that however Kazuya feels for Ruka, he did agree to be her boyfriend (rather than reject her) and making her cover for him and Chizuru isn't fair.
Thus ensues a wonderfully lively sitcom scenario where conceits like the fact Ruka's yelling at Kazuya in the kitchen can't be heard by the fam in the next room. Ruka sees she's started out with a deficit, imagining a virtual Reversi game of who can be the best future daughter/granddaughter.
But Ruka has no shortage of charm, and quickly ingratiates herself with Kazuya's fam. This sucks for him in terms of maintaining the fiction of him and Chizuru for his gran's sake, but it also shows a nice what-if if only he had genuine romantic feelings for Ruka rather than Chizuru…things would go pretty smoothly!
Instead, Ruka comes within mere seconds of telling Kazuya's fam that she's his actual girlfriend when he's saved by a text from Chizuru asking what's up. Kazuya sucks it up and adds her as a friend, then calls her on her personal line—unthinkable in the first season, but accepted as a necessity here.
When she says she's still at the hospital, Kazuya does what's right and tells her she doesn't have to come, but then a jealous Ruka rips the phone out of his hand and demonstrates to Chizuru that it really is a good idea to show herself before things get messy.
I totally get Ruka's anger, but if her goal was to keep Chizuru away from the fam tonight, her rant to Chizuru had the opposite effect. Chizuru surprises Kazuya's fam by showing up and immediately being her perfect professional girl self, even asking to pray at the family shrine, something Ruka didn't even think of.
As Kazuya's gran learns he and Chizuru live in the same area (but not that they're next-door neighbors) she asks why they don't just live together, Chizuru blushes and says she'd lean on him too much. Ruka spots the lipstick on Chizuru's glass and heads to the bathroom without saying anything.
When Kazuya heads to the bathroom, Ruka, who is getting absolutely slaughtered by Chizuru out there, decides to resort to drastic (and readily available) measures, i.e. her lips. She gets on her toes, pulls Kazuya in by the goofy gaudy tie she bought him for his birthday, and gives him a long lasting smooch.
It's given all the weight of a climactic romantic development, but lest we forget, at this moment Kazuya simply likes Chizuru more, and the fact the two of them can call and text each other whenever constitutes Reversi discs that can't be flipped back over.
This episode featured some fun and genuinely funny girlfriends-family sitcom action, but also made me hope that at some point before this cour is out we get some kind of legitimate development towards untangling some of the romantic knots Kazuya has made. I realize I may be setting myself up for disappointment, but it's always nice to dream.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 27 Aug 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, birthday party, close call, ex-girlfriend, feelings, girlfriend, grandmother, hospital, kinoshita kazuya, love triangle, mizuhara chizuru, perfect, possessive, sarashina ruka, sitcom, stolen kiss, the truth, tightrope
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 20 – The Best Day Ever, Every Time
This episode begins, amazingly, with Kazuya talking on the phone with his actual ostensible girlfriend, Ruka, who is clearly loving every minute of their convo and would happily chat with him for hours. She also shows a bit of maturity by apologizing for her outburst towards Mami, whom we see is still trying to tweetstalk his gran.
When a day Chizuru is free for a date arrives, Kazuya decides to mix things up a bit and fulfill an adolescent dream of his: going on a date with a girl in their high school uniforms. Chizuru doesn't know about this dream and so wonders why he's wearing a uniform, but like so much with Kazuya, she rolls with it.
Since he insisted she act like herself for their dates, the ensuing date at TDC (Tokyo Dome City) feels considerably less forced and artificial. This is doubly true to to the fact it's quite clear Chizuru enjoys being on a date with Kazuya under the guise of a professional transaction. It gives her cover from feelings she clearly harbors but isn't ready to parse.
And that's fine! After all, the guy she often finds herself blushing about is still in a state of denial himself. Such is his self-esteem, he is constantly holding Chizuru up on a pedestal she never asked for. Yes, she's lovely, but his adoration goes way too far. Forget high school, he's acting like a middle schooler most of the time.
Kazuya's date plan of holding hands, sharing food, photo booth, and Ferris wheel all goes swimmingly. But he's so worried about doing or saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, he barely takes the time to simply exist and enjoy the time he's actually having with this other human being.
As I said, besides the school uniforms, what makes this otherwise fairly rote date episode refreshing is how Chizuru isn't being overly lovey-dovey or flowery. She knows she doesn't need to be; that just being herself is fine with Kazuya, both as a rental customer…and as a friend. Indeed, he's one of very few people in her life she can be herself with, and as such, his presence is comforting, even when he's being a complete spazz.
Just as Kazuya and Ruka have some genuine conversation on the phone earlier in the episode, it's also nice to see him and Chizuru just shooting the breeze about her job, and how she's come to love the job she's so good at. Since he knows about her dream of becoming an actor, she also tells him how she's got a role in another play.
She's clearly as happy to have someone to tell this as Kazuya is to hear it. He's so happy for her and how her hard work is paying off, he briefly holds her hand a bit too tight. When booking the date, he discovered that Chizuru ranked up from Rookie to Regular, which not only cost more, but only increased his adoration of her.
But for as unattainable as he continues to believe her to be, and as loathsome as he considers himself to be, if I had to guess what Chizuru wanted, it isn't someone who will worship the ground she walks on, but walks on that ground beside her as an equal. Heck, it's pretty much what he already has with Sumi.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 19 Aug 2022 Fri, 19 Aug 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, churro, date, ex-girlfriend, fawning, feelings, ferris wheel, girlfriend, holding hands, inner monologue, kinoshita kazuya, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, photo booth, sarashina ruka, school uniform, skirt, status quo, tokyo dome city
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 19 – Thing of the Past
Kazuya wakes up with the mother of all hangovers, but also an odd fuzzy memory of Chizuru having taken care of him last night. He's not sure if it's just a fantasy, but what is real is that he was invited to a chat group that includes Chizuru's private contact (not the Rental GF one he has and cannot use when not renting her).
He stops himself from adding her as a friend as it would send her a notification, but fantasy and reality once again collide in his booze-addled brain when he finds an energy drink in his fridge with a hand-written note from Chizuru (reading "Drunkard!") that proves she was indeed there. We also cut to Chizuru also contemplating hitting the "add a friend" button for Kazuya.
To me, all this means that Kazuya and Chizuru want to and probably should start acting like the neighbors and good friends they so clearly are, only their personal hangups and the fact Kazuya is always renting her services keep things cloudy and complicated. This week also reminds us that Ruka is technically his actual girlfriend, and at work she checks in with him on whether he's ready to make them "official."
Kazuya is saved by a customer arriving at the otherwise-deserted parlor, but that customer turns out to be Mami, who heard from Kibe that he was working here and decided to stop by and mess with him (she says she's kidding, but she isn't). Her plans are utterly stymied by the presence of Ruka.
After Kazuya tries to sidestep Mami's and Ruka's curiosity towards one another, Mami is simply too friendly to Kazuya for Ruka to remain silent and professional. She grabs Kazuya and makes it clear that they're dating, then embellishes things by claiming they've gone all the way, and basically condemns Mami as his ex for coming by his work at all.
Mami has her knowledge of Chizuru as a rental girlfriend loaded, and decides to use it, but it misfires, as Ruka is not only aware but seemingly okay with it? Mami retreats for now, if not defeated, utterly bewildered by what the heck is going on with her ex. Ruka ends up in tears over the ordeal, and Kazuya can only sit and wait for her to cry it out.
Note, Kazuya is not to be sympathized with here—all of this is his doing, and if he were honest to Ruka about not having feelings for her, they wouldn't be in this unsustainable "half-relationship" that is so easily threatened by a passing ex. If anything, I sympathize with Mami, who on one occasion asks herself why she's wasting her time even thinking about Kazuya and his palace of lies.
The answer the show implies is that as much as she doesn't want to admit it, she's not over the guy. I prefer the interpretation that she's infected by the same brain worms as Chizuru and Ruka, which beyond all logic and reason render Kazuya a halfway tolerable presence. (Sumi, the best girl, is either immune or not infected due to how rarely she and Kazuya interact.)
Speaking of Chizuru, she returns at the end of the episode boarding the same train as Mami, and a deeply awkward train ride ensues, with Mami being not subtle at all about the concept of obtaining items while they're as new as possible lest they fall out of fashion. On the surface, she's talking about Chizuru's bag, which Mami identifies as having been in Kazuya's apartment that one night.
Because Mami cannot for whatever reason stop thinking about Kazuya, the gears in her brain continue to churn late into the night, as she attempts, like a private eye, to piece together Kazuya's intricate galaxy of stupidity. While Ruka's account is locked, Mami finds Kazuya's grandma, and decides to follow her in hopes of gathering more intel.
From Yuuki Aoi's half-bored, half-threatening, alway mocking sing-song lilt to the design of her disheveled hair and dead eyes, Mami is always portrayed as a potential chaos-spreading force, and the show seems more often than not to side with Kazuya and the others over her, as if she were reaping what she sowed by dumping Kazuya before fully realizing how she felt about him.
But I don't see Mami as a villain. What Kazuya is doing is far more villainous. Mami may be looking to score points or exact some kind of vengeance, but she's also trying to get at the truth of matters, and the truth is Kazuya's relationships with Chizuru and Ruka are fundamentally flawed and require serious work.
Kazuya should have dumped Ruka, confessed to Chizuru and been rejected, get over it, then asked out Sumi, with whom he is the best version of himself, long ago. The excuse of not wanting to disappoint his grandma has long since ceased holding water. If he insists on maintaining the status quo, stringing Ruka along while he and Chizuru push and pull towards and away from one another, I welcome Mami's efforts to break that status quo.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 13 Aug 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags awkward, coincidence, cold water, drinking, drunk, ex-girlfriend, feelings, girlfriend, investigation, jealousy, karaoke, kinoshita kazuya, mizuhara chizuru, mocking, nanami mami, sarashina ruka, social media, status quo, train ride, web of lies, yuuki aoi
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 17 – Sumi Can Communicate
Three days after Ruka spent the night, Kazuya shows some genuine personal growth by taking out the goddamn trash. Chizuru had the same idea, and their timing is so synced up he almost wallops her when he opens his door. When she brings up Ruka, he assures her nothing happened, but the fact is she did spend the night. Later, when Chizuru is reading lines, she can't focus thanks to Ruka's words that morning.
On top of wanting to clear up the misunderstanding, Kazuya learns from the app that Chizuru's birthday is coming up. He wants to give her a gift that means something, and also to thank her for getting him his phone case—which as we know played a key factor in him declining Ruka's advances. He knows he can't ask Ruka or Mami for ideas, so on Chizuru's birthday he books Sumi, the forgotten Rent-a-Girlfriend.
Sumi, as we know, overheard Kazuya yelling out his feelings to Chizuru in episode 1, but other than that and being at Chizuru's performance, she's been a ghost, which is a shame, because every time she gets the spotlight, I find myself wishing Kazuya would just open his eyes and make her his girlfriend. It's painfully clear (to everyone but him) throughout their date that she likes him!
Not only that, while she's quiet and shy (though very verbose via text), she's also perhaps the most thoughtful, kind, and caring of the four girls. Despite having so much less screen time than the others (or maybe because of that) she just constantly gives off Best Girl vibes. And Kazuya notes that she's really making progress as a rental girlfriend, which she no doubt attributes to his help.
Kazuya procrastinates to the very end of the date to ask Sumi what she thinks would make a good gift for Chizuru. And while Sumi momentarily seems gloomy being asked about another girl, she quickly gets over that and helps the boy who has helped her. In her distinctive, adorable style of communication of gestures, little noises, texts, and the occasional spoken word, she suggests various gift ideas, all of which Kazuya considers but feels none of them are quite the right fit.
Sumi seems to have a Eureka moment and takes Kazuya by the hand, out of the department store where their date took place, and onto the roof of another department store where a "Rent-a-Fighters" power rangers-style show is going on. When Kazuya hears the pink fighter talking he realizes it's Chizuru, working her ass off at yet another job in order to make her dream to perform in front of her Gran come true.
Watching Chizuru in action and delivering rent-a-kicks and punches inspires Kazuya to a degree, as he decides to stop wallowing and power through his indecision. Before parting ways, Sumi also tells him that sentiment matters most when it comes to gifts; as long as it's from the heart, any gift from him would make him happy. Sumi isn't only speaking rhetorically, mind you, but Kazuya doesn't pick up on the nuance of her text.
Even so, when Kazuya starts walking away, Sumi looks at the photos they took together, her eyes start to get glassy, and before Kazuya knows it Sumi has him by the sleeve. Having not thought this through, Sumi remains silent and blushing profusely for a good long time, but eventually asks Kazuya for his birthday. They part ways again, and Sumi immediately puts the date in her calendar—an opportunity for her to give him something from the heart. Her satisfied smile melted my already melted heart.
Chizuru comes home well after dark, on the phone with her Gran declining an offer of dinner as she's just too wiped. She takes a shower, gets a text from her idol frenemy Chi, then goes out on her balcony and finds a bag with a "Happy Birthday" note from Kazuya, who slipped it there from his side.
It's a heartfelt note, explaining why he's giving her a gift and that it can alleviate fatigue, which is especially timely sentiment considering how tired Chizuru is in that moment. When she opens the box within the box and finds pickled plums, her first reaction is "…Why?" She then notices Kazuya's postscript insisting nothing happened with Ruka, and she remembers how passionately he spoke to her about not giving up, and pops a plum in her mouth.
Now, if you've ever had a pickled plum (I highly recommend them) you know how powerful the flavor is. They're sweet, salty, and above all oh so sour. It's a flavor that brings a smile to Chizuru's face, and it's a good flavor to represent the complicated nature of her and Kazuya's relationship. It's not necessarily comfort food, but slight discomfort food, giving you the kick you need when you need it.
Poor adorable Sumi doesn't stand a chance, does she? T_T
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 30 Jul 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags aggressive, best girl, birthday, cute, date, feelings, girlfriend, hanging out, hug, kinoshita kazuya, mall, mizuhara chizuru, power rangers, present, quiet, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, shy, sour
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 16 – Turtle Curry
Kazuya is convinced Mami is going to let him have it now that she knows Chizuru was a rental girlfriend, but to his shock she's nice. She's worried she "pushed him" to this, something he denies, and says instead it was a kind of "social experiment".
Mami leaves him saying he shouldn't waste his time and money on fake girlfriends, but doesn't believe a word he says otherwise. She knows something's up, and while she calls him a loser, she wouldn't be bothering with him at all if she didn't still care about the lug.
From there, it's a Ruka episode, which is always a delight because how there's a simplicity to her dynamic with Kazuya. He fully appreciates what a stunningly cute young woman she is, but doesn't have feelings for her the way he does for Chizuru, so even though she's willing to be his real and actual girlfriend, it just doesn't quite feel right for Kazuya.
That said, Ruka has the time of her life shopping and cooking curry wth expensive soft-shell turtle (a known aphrodisiac) for the one she loves. She clearly prepared for this, and the show doesn't cop out by making her a terrible cook. The curry is damned good, and also works downstairs, if you catch my drift.
Kazuya knows he should be perfectly content eating, watching TV, and eventually getting down to some hanky-panky Ruka has already made clear she's ready for whenever he is. She even sends a text saying she's staying at a friend's so she can spend the night, which she sees as only fair.
After all, she let Kazuya go on rental dates with Chizuru. If Kazuya is going to allow her to frame their relationship as near-as-makes-no-difference legitimate, that means he owes her. Mother Nature tends to agree, sending a dousing typhoon to cancel all the trains and keep Ruka right where she is.
After she takes a shower and changes into his baggy shirt (and not the pants he offered), Kazuya can already barely take it, so when he's in the shower he rubs one out for some "clarity" on the situation. Not helping matters is how loud Ruka tends to be with Chizuru right next door. Also not helping matters is when Ruka digs through her purse and a condom pops out…"just in case."
That night he sleeps on the floor of the kitchen, worried that he's caused Ruka to act this aggressive to compensate for the stress his stuff with Chizuru is causing, but he's focused on simply getting through the night. That becomes incredibly more difficult when Ruka snuggles up behind him, giving him the chance to do whatever he wants, which is what she wants too.
It's the sight of the phone case Chizuru gave him that stops him from turning over. But when Ruka starts going on about how he must not think she's attractive enough, or that she's being too clingy or a pain or a bother, he gets up and sets her straight: he'd never cal her bother, she's so cute he can't take it, and hearing her say he likes her makes him want to jump for joy.
He just doesn't want to make a "terrible mistake". Ruka, understanding, retreats to her bed, but falls asleep happy thanks to all the nice things Kazuya said. The next morning, before kissing him goodbye, Ruka says those works made her feel like she could stay by his side, so she will. She also makes sure Chizuru overhears her yelling about their amazing night together, which Chizuru definitely overhears from the other side of her door.
I know Chizuru is the girl Kazuya is supposed to end up with, and he clearly has strong feelings for her, every time Ruka gets her chance (which is rare) to offer a viable alternative route, she sure doesn't squander it. The production also doesn't skimp on the detail needed to up the intimacy levels of their scenes, and Touyama Nao's warm, singsongy, expressive voice fits Ruka's energy perfectly.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 23 Jul 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags aggressive, bother, close call, condom, cooking, cute, feelings, genuine, girlfriend, hanging out, kinoshita kazuya, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, pressure, sarashina ruka, sex, sleeping over, touyama nao, true self, turtle curry, typhoon
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 15 – Hello Neighbor
Chizuru lost her key at some point during the evening, and the landlord is out, so she invites herself into Kazuya's apartment. To do exactly what Kazuya is not sure, but as you'd expect of our horny jackass protagonist, he has a lot of thoughts on the matter, culminating in him almost asking if she wants to spend the night at his place.
He fails to realize that might not even be a last resort for Chizuru, and that there are other resorts to explore, like whether she left her back screen door open. That said, getting around to her side to look is awkward at best and dangerous at worst. Luckily Kazuya is there to keep her from falling; unluckily he grabs her bum, then they both lose their balance and he ends up on top of her again, just as Mami rings his doorbell.
This is when the potential of the classic sitcom "hide one person from the other person" scenario nearly reaches full flower, especially as Kazuya failed to lock the door after Chizuru came in. The two of them hide in the kitchen helplessly as Mami rings again, opens the door, looks in, assumes Kaz has gone shopping…and leaves.
After both Kazuya and Chizuru breath a sigh of relief, the recriminations begin: Why, Chizuru wants to know, is Mami popping by his place at 11 PM? He doesn't know, but it may have something to do with her talk with Chizuru on that bridge, which she's unaware he overheard. Regardless, Mami is well on her way home when she realizes she saw a fancy girl's purse in Kazuya's apartment, and her eyes go dead. So this isn't over!
Kazuya and Chizuru return to where they were before Mami arrived, which is exactly how to deal with the situation of Chizuru being locked out. But then she sees the light in the landlord's is on, so she heads down there. That's when Kazuya remembers her gran's words and tells her straight-up that she can always come to him, her neighbor, if she needs help and can't ask family or friends.
That's when Chizuru partially drops her armor and tells him that other than her hospitalized gran, she has no other family. She promised her late gramps that she'd become and actress, and so she's following that dream with everything she can, including working as a rental girlfriend to pay for that dream. She tells Kazuya she's "not that special", just a normal girl chasing a childish dream.
Clearly moved by her opening up, Kazuya proceeds to let her know a little more about his family situation, and how he doesn't really have a dream like hers, but nevertheless has a future lined up taking over the family shop. He doesn't mean to brag, only to acknowledge that he's lucky, and to reiterate that no matter how she might value or de-value herself, he wants to be by her side.
Adding "forever" at the end of his statement was probably not the best idea! Still, Chizuru says if he wants to stay by her side, she can't very well refuse…amending that at the end by saying that's a "rental girlfriend's job."
While pure luck brought Chizuru into his home, and their initial interactions were awkward, their evening ends having grown just a little closer to each other. Kazuya saw a little bit of the Chizuru her grandmother described, as well as the Chizuru that is receptive to being cared for. Kazuya hasn't experienced the pain and loss she has or worked remotely as hard as she has for his future, but he can empathize. She's not just a hottie; she's a person he wants to support, labels be damned.
The next day at college, Kazuya crosses paths with Chizuru and is fully prepared to pretend they don't know each other, per their agreement. But Chizuru, clutching her books, loosens one hand into subtle good morning wave, and acknowledgment that they do in fact know each other. That little gesture makes his entire day, and as he's making copies and he imagines the copies are photos of her, it's clear to him and us he's "down bad" like never before.
So naturally, Mami sidles up to him from behind asking him what's up, and his outsize reaction to her sudden appearance would automatically make anyone suspicious. Looks like we're in for a bit of Mami and Ruka cooking time next week.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 16 Jul 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, close call, compromising position, confession, dream, evolution, family, genuine, girlfriend, hiding, kinoshita kazuya, lonely, lost key, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, needy, opening up, popping in, relationship, sarashina ruka, true self
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 14 – The Usual Is Ideal
Kazuya isn't quite sure what he's doing, but he wants to support Chizuru in her pursuit of acting, and he's also pretty sure he loves her. Booking her every week will certainly support her financially, but when she tells him it's a bit much and there's "nothing in it for him", it reminds him that their rental girlfriend-client relationship is purely transactional as far as she's concerned.
Nevertheless, Kazuya is serious about supporting her, so much that he bows before Ruka and basically asks her to let him keep going on rental dates with Chizuru. Ruka, who is saintly in her patience of this dude, agrees as long as she gets to accompany him to Chizuru's play to see if she's really that great an actor. As for their rental date, Kazuya asks Chizuru to drop the act, as his "ideal" of her is the real Chizuru he knows.
I don't know if hearing that makes Chizuru happy or what, but I do know that after their date is over and they part ways, she walks right back up to him, not as his rental date, but as Chizuru, and they continue hanging out. But when they go to the batting cages, it's because Chizuru wants to blow off steam without being hit on by other guys. Kazuya is her shield, but his reward is getting to see her athletic side, along with her home run smile and full force of her high-five.
We then learn that the batting cages were also to kill time before going to visit her grandma, who is back in the hospital. Chizuru knows her gran likes Kazuya (not to mention still believes they're actually dating), and while she takes a good long time replacing the water in the flowers, it affords Kazuya and her gran another chance to talk about stuff.
When Kazuya says he saw Chizuru's play and thought she was amazing, and goes on to say she's incredible and strong while he's just a burden, Chizuru's gran can't help but laugh. She's known Chizuru a lot longer, so she knows the real real Chizuru is, at the end of the day, a somewhat lonely, needy girl who loves acting and praise, and covers up those weaknesses with an "armor of ice."
Gran knows that someday that armor won't be enough for her granddaughter, and she'll need someone who "sees her for who she is," and solemnly asks Kazuya to be that someone. Kazuya, for all his issues, at least prefers the genuine Chizuru to her distant, performative rental persona, and now knows that even that version of Chizuru he believes to be so strong is just like him; always beset by and trying to hide her weakness.
Kazuya is also serious about not letting Gran down about being there for Chizuru, even if not as a real boyfriend. I can't help but question his credibility to do so when he can't even manage to toss his used tissues in the dustbin. But that also means there's plenty of room for growth.
As Chizuru appears at his door to declare she's lost her key and a preview involving Mami at his door too, next week looks to be a sitcommy scenario, but I hope the more serious matters explored this week aren't left by the wayside.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 9 Jul 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, armor, batting cages, confession, date, genuine, girlfriend, grandma, hospital, kinoshita kazuya, lonely, mizuhara chizuru, needy, sarashina ruka, true self
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 13 (S1 E01) – The Play's the Thing
After an efficient recap of where the four girls currently stand in the story, we return to Kazuya's filthy flat (seriously dude, clean it the fuck up!), lamenting the "countdown to ruin"—Chizuru's big acting break that will lead to her being discovered by a big-deal director and quitting her rental girlfriend gig.
He decides to buy a ticket to Chizuru's play as "moral support", but also wonders if he simply wants to watch the beginning of the end of his relationship with her. Sumi spots him, but before she can say anything the lights go down, the curtain comes up, and Kazuya gets a lot more than he bargained for.
Watching Chizuru perform as a completely different person—in this case a puckish kunoichi—is a revelation for Kazuya. He's taken on an emotional roller coaster as Chizuru grabs the entire audience in her hand and doesn't let go. She's magnetic, clearly the "MVP" of the play. He's so stunned by the end he doesn't move from his seat for a while. Sumi, who can probably tell why, leaves him be.
But while he, Sumi, and indeed I truly thought Chizuru stole the show in which she wasn't even the lead, her performance doesn't lead to the opportunity she'd planned. Turns out the famous director is basically the lead actress' damn uncle, and gives her the role. Even though she was a victim of nepotism, Chizuru thinks she wasn't good enough.
Kazuya leaving the theater in no particular hurry combined with an upset Chizuru skipping the wrap party means the two inevitably bump into each other on the streets. Kazuya quickly owns up to coming to see her perform, and is extremely effluent in his praise. He also accepts the fact that this probably means the end of their rental dating.
When Chizuru explains that things didn't work out and then puts on a brave happy face, Kazuya at least realizes that she's trying to keep her frustration bottled up. But he's not going to let her say she's "just like him" in getting "too worked up" about acting, because her rental girlfriend gig is proof she does have talent, and plenty of it.
Chizuru's attitude suggests she's ready to throw in the towel and face reality, but Kazuya suspect she doesn't want to, and also doesn't think she should. If she needs to keep funding her dream of acting, then he's going to keep hiring her to be his rental girlfriend, getting a job to pay the fees.
Chizuru is recalling Kazuya's words when she comes home and sits in the dark, and then she gets a call from the lead actress who got the role thanking her for "warming up the crowd", twisting the dagger and sending the cork on the bottle of her tears shooting across the room.
That said, her tear-filled eyes are suddenly reflecting the light of her phone, which just alerted her to a whole slew of new bookings from Kazuya, putting his money where his mouth is and adding financial support to his moral support. While she calls him a dumbass as usual for going to such lengths for her sake, the gesture doesn't fail to bring a smile to her face and color to her cheeks.
I said in my review of the first season finale that if a sequel of RaG was made, it would be the girls who'd bring me back, since Kazuya was mostly an infuriating pest of an MC. Well, that sequel has now arrived two years later, and while Kazuya continues to keep a pigsty of a place and harbor a lot of misunderstandings, he's…not that bad in this episode!
Ruka would probably disagree, seeing as how he continues to utterly ignore her, but that's for another episode. Here Chizuru clearly stole the show, and Kazuya did what he could to make her feel better and encouraged her not to stop dreaming after one setback. He was a pretty good fake boyfriend! Now, keep it up!
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Sat, 2 Jul 2022 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu S2, Summer 2022Tags acting, bookings, dreams, encouragement, girlfriend, hard work, kinoshita kazuya, kunoichi, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, nepotism, play, rejected, rental, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, secret, secrets, Shining, stage, talent
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 12 (Fin) – The One He Wants
We've finally arrived at the end of one of the most frustrating, problematic rom-coms I've experienced in quite some time, and it ends pretty much how I expected: by not ending. But despite how hard it was to watch at times, I could never quite look away.
On not one but two occasions this week Kazuya shows signs of not only knowing what he must do but stepping up and doing or saying it, only to abandon the effort a half-step short of the finish line. First he does this with Ruka, realizing how lucky he is to have her and how unreasonable he is for feeling like she's not enough.
He is right in the middle of telling her he's ready to move past the "trial" period of their relationship and declare them "official"—only to be distracted by the arrival of Mizuhara and Mami at the karaoke parlor. It's the first of two "showdown" scenes between the two women, and in this first one Mami has all the power and relishes wielding it.
Mami tells Mizuhara she didn't book her to rag on her profession, but now that she knows she's a rental, she couldn't stay quiet. She doesn't like the fact Mizuhara and Kazuya have had a fake relationship this long, and aside from deeming it bad for Kazuya, just watching it in practice pisses her off "a teensy bit." None of her words are that harsh or cruel, but Yuuki Aoi's expert delivery and Mami's odd expressions make them feel like icy daggers.
Because this is a show where Everything is About Kazuya, Kazuya feels it's his duty to not only eavesdrop on Mizuhara and Mami's date, but pretend to be sick and excuse himself from work to follow them. Mizuhara rewarded him last time he did this, so why wouldn't he do it again? He has an excuse ready to go: he doesn't want Mizuhara to bear the brunt of Mami's hate.
Meanwhile Ruka is left holding the bag, wondering if Kazuya was serious about making them official. Kazuya finds Mizuhara and Mami on a bridge about to wrap up the date, but not before a "rematch" of sorts, only this time with Mizuhara having a slight rhetorical edge.
Mizuhara asks Mami straight up how she feels about Kazuya, as she's sure Mami still occupies a special place in the guy's heart. Mami doesn't take the bait, but tosses the question back to Mizuhara, suspicious that in a year of fake-dating, she's fallen for Kazuya for real. Mizuhara simply states "He's my boyfriend", not adding the "rental" part because at this point, until the end of their contract, whether it's a rental or not is irrelevant.
Mami considers that a dodging of the question and turns to leave, but Mizuhara grabs her hand and tells her they're not done. As scenes of Kazuya crying about Mami flash by, Mizuhara tells Mami how being a rental girlfriend helped her realize the importance and difficulty of falling in love. She asks if Mami ever faced Kazuya's feelings head on, in good faith, seriously engaged with his love, or considered that he may be the one to make her "happy for life".
Mami tells her to buzz off under her breath, and states that all of that is between her and Kazuya. Fair enough, but Mizuhara wins this round. She knows Mami wouldn't have bothered with this date if she didn't care one way or another about Kazuya. Of the three lead women, Mami is the one most unready, unwilling, and unable to reckon with her feelings, preferring her cool, aloof, gives-no-fucks, bored-with-everything…facade.
That night, Kazuya is waiting by Mizuhara's door when she comes home, confessing he saw and heart what she said to Mami, thanking her for having his back once again, and apologizing for not being able to do those things himself. Mizuhara then shocks Kazuya by apologizing in turn, for not being able to secure him a real girlfriend (apparently Ruka doesn't count!).
As she's suggesting he consider asking Mami out again, for closure if nothing else, Kazuya steps up to the plate, as he did with Ruka, and says something he should have said long ago: "You're the one I want. It's gotta be you." At last, some progress! Only no, he immediately recants, saying he wants her "as a rental girlfriend", before rushing into his apartment with a curt good night.
Yet another disappointing, immensely frustrating moment of failure for Kazuya, who comes away from the incident thinking it's a sure thing that Mizuhara isn't into him. Meanwhile, next door, a blushing Mizuhara wonders WTF just happened. I have no doubt if Kazuya had made it clear he truly did want her as a real girlfriend, it would have been better for both of them, whether Mizuhara accepted or rejected him.
Instead, as a closing montage indicates, it's still very much anyone's game when it comes to winning the Kazuya Sweepstakes. Sumi's out there doing her job with renewed confidence, Ruka smiles at the phone background of her and Kazuya, Mami is utterly bored to death by her latest rich old dude, and Mizuhara is still showing up early for dates with Kazuya.
They're still rental dates, and she's still a rental girlfriend. I get it; that's the name of the show. And the point of the show wasn't really about Kazuya to end up with one girl over the others, but to explore the different ways in which we fall in love, now made more complex and at times strange via new technologies.
Kazuya was almost always abysmally hard to watch, but that was kind of the point too. What kept me coming back were Ruka, Mizuhara, Mami and Sumi—in that order—as much care was put into their voices, character designs, clothing, and personalities. They were the stars, while Kazuya was an unfortunate but necessary variable in the equation. If RaG were to return for a sequel, they'd be the ones who'd bring me back.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu, Summer 2020Tags choice, confession, confrontation, date, discovery, girlfriend, jealous, karaoke, kinoshita kazuya, kuri, lies, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, possessiveness, rental, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, secrets, shy, status quo, tense1 Comment on Rent-a-Girlfriend – 12 (Fin) – The One He Wants
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 11 – Beauty and the Least
After a TV-style cold open intro to Sakurasawa Sumi and her morning routine, which is the most we ever hear her talk, Kazuya meets her for their date, and he's equally astonished by her innocent beauty and her social awkwardness. Seiyu Takahashi Rie does a great job with all of Sumi's various flustered peeps.
What Kazuya soon learns (besides confirming the fact he really wants a real girlfriend) is that Sumi is working extremely hard to have as much fun doing things on their date as possible. It turns into a sports extravaganza, with Sumi giving her all (and mostly failing) at bowling, batting, soccer, rollerblading, etc.
Kazuya himself feels pretty useless and inept at helping Sumi with her problem, but he at least has the sack to rescue her from some leering punks, and she rewards him by holding hands and sharing her ice cream. When he comes back from a bathroom break, he's shocked to find Mami sitting across from Sumi.
Mami spotted Kazuya with Sumi earlier in the date, and has been observing them ever since, much like Kazuya followed Mizuhara. He has to walk an extremely fine line with Mami since as far as she knows he's with Mizuhara and this looks like two-timing, especially when Sumi clings to him as if defending her real boyfriend from a rival.
At least a partial truth would have probably sufficed: he's helping Mizuhara's friend, who is a rental girlfriend. But even that isn't quite bulletproof, as it plants the idea that Mizuhara is also a rental, and if she were Kazuya's real GF she wouldn't have him going on dates with other girls, even for practice.
Kazuya's date with Sumi ends well despite Mami's interruption, and while Mami's brother implies she's messing around with another guy at college, she's still fixated on Kazuya, and frustrated by that fact). Then it dawns on her: is he really dating Sumi? A quick search of Sumi's name turns up her rental profile.
Just like that, the one person Kazuya wants to know about the truth the least has a pretty good idea anyway. He and Kuri are able to keep the secret about their respective GFs from Kibe, but with Mizuhara out on rental dates in the same place they're hanging out, that too is a tenuous fiction.
Bottom line, something's got to give, and with only one episode left after this one, something will! That night Kazuya gets another impromptu balcony meeting with Mizuhara, which I believe to be their best and most genuine interactions, because they don't put on airs. She thanks him for helping Sumi, who was over the moon from their date, but also tells Kazuya she's thinking about quitting the rental biz once her acting career picks up some momentum.
That said, she's not in a hurry to quit yet, and will be honoring the promise she made to him to be his girlfriend a bit longer. She even has a date in the morning, and so turns in early, only to discover that her date, one "Maya", is actually Mami! The jig is now well and truly up—unless Mizuhara insists to Mami that despite her rental job, she's Kazuya's real girlfriend, or something to that effect.
I for one am hoping that most if not all of the lies stop next week (if Mami fails to secure a second season, that is), no matter the consequences. Kazuya and Mizuhara have been shuffling their feet all this time, and it's time to put up or shut up. And then there's Ruka…
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 18 Sep 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu, Summer 2020Tags date, discovery, girlfriend, jealous, kibe, kinoshita kazuya, kuri, lies, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, part-time job, practice, quitting, rental, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka, secrets, shy, two-timing
Rent-a-Girlfriend – 10 – Who Rents the Rented?
Ruka got a job at the same karaoke parlor as Kazuya, and the boss loves her so she's not going anywhere. Ruka believes she can "close the gap" if she's in close proximity to him in a "Chizuru-free zone" unlike his apartment where she's right next door.
Having Ruka around reminds him of how he aided in the breaking of Kuri's heart when Ruka Kuri him to date him. Whether it was right for Kuri to pretend Ruka was his real girlfriend, the fact is he really liked her, and Kazuya is worried the heartbreak will make him distrust or even hate women the rest of his life.
That's probably selling Kuri too short, but Kuri's creepy private Twitter account and Kibe's worries suggest he's in a deep slump. Flush with cash from his job (and not wanting to anger Ruka by going on a rental date with Chizuru), Kazuya decides to do something he hopes will help cheer his friend up: he pays for Chizuru to go on a rental date…with Kuri.
At first Kuri is simply confused: why would his friend's girlfriend be going on a date with him? Then he sees how perfect and accommodating Chizuru is and gets self-conscious, to the point he considers Kazuya is playing an elaborate (and cruel) prank. But at some point he realizes he's having so much fun, it doesn't matter whether Chizuru is a real or rental date.
Being with someone as lovely as Chizuru restores his faith in women and makes him want a real girlfriend of his own again. That evening Kazuya pops out of the bushes, not to break up the date, but to apologize to Kuri for how things went down with Ruka. He also owns up the fact that he was lying too: Chizuru isn't his real girlfriend.
While this puts him and Kuri on the same level, that doesn't stop Kuri from laughing at him and mocking him all the same, which leads to some playful mutual ribbing. However, more than anything Kuri is relieved, and Kazuya's plan worked, he's genuinely cheered up. Such is the power of Chizuru. As fo Kuri's parting question to her—about whether she'd fall for a rental date—Chizuru simply beams as Asakusa glows behind her and says "Who knows?"
Chizuru's opinion of Kazuya must have improved upon being asked to help him cheer Kuri up. Not only is it proof he doesn't only ever think of himself and his own gratification, but also that he's willing to risk embarassing himself if it means owning up to the truth. In this regard, telling Kuri was a practice run for telling their grandmothers, which is still presumably going to happen at some point.
Finally, his request confirms to Chizuru that Kazuya is a guy she can trust to go on a different kind of practice run: Her rental girlfriend colleague Sakurasawa Sumi is just starting out in the business, but has received complaints (and likely poor ratings) for being far too shy.
On their adjacent balconies the next night, she asks him to go on a date with Sumi, trusting he'll be both kind and impartial. In addition her request, which Kazuya accepts, Chizuru asks about how things are going in his love life completely unbidden, which takes him aback.
All this time she's been keeping him at arms length, but their talk about his (lack of) progress with Mami looks and awful lot like a legitimate friendship between two people, romance aside. And while it's late in the game to introduce a fourth girl, I'm looking forward to Takahashi Rie's take on Sumi.
Author sesameacrylicPosted on Fri, 11 Sep 2020 Fri, 11 Sep 2020 Categories Anime Reviews, Kanojo Okarishimasu, Summer 2020Tags apology, asakusa, date, feelings, girlfriend, going out, kibe, kinoshita kazuya, kuri, lies, mizuhara chizuru, nanami mami, part-time job, practice, rental, sakurasawa sumi, sarashina ruka

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
from django.db.models import signals
import os
from dimagi.utils.couch.database import get_db
from dimagi.utils.couch import sync_docs

def get_couchapps():
    dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    return [d for d in os.listdir(dir) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dir, d))]

def sync_design_docs(db, temp=None):
    dir = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
    for d in get_couchapps():
        sync_docs.sync_design_docs(db, os.path.join(dir, d), d, temp=temp)

def catch_signal(app, **kwargs):
    """Function used by syncdb signal"""
    app_name = app.__name__.rsplit('.', 1)[0]
    app_label = app_name.split('.')[-1]
    if app_label == "couchapps":
        sync_design_docs(get_db())

def copy_designs(db=None, temp='tmp', delete=True):
    db = db or get_db()
    for app_label in get_couchapps():
        sync_docs.copy_designs(db, app_label, temp=temp, delete=delete)

signals.post_syncdb.connect(catch_signal)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
Your rights within school gates
How your constitutional rights are altered once you walk onto campus each morning
Ben Brill and Lauren Kim|October 4, 2018
The first amendment of the Constitution guarantees every U.S. citizen the right to freedom of speech, petition, religion, assembly, and press. However, students' rights change the second that they step onto campus; their freedom becomes limited. With the polarized political climate, more students are vocalizing their opinions — whether it be by kneeling during the national anthem or walking out of class. So what rights do students have on campus?
"If your right infringes upon another student's right to feel safe and respected, then I'm going to talk to you not because you don't have the right to choose your T shirt, but because that still has to be within the context of everyone's rights."
The key court case defining the extent of students' freedom of speech on school grounds is the Tinker vs. Des Moines case of 1969, which ruled that students and teachers do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
However, these rights still have limitations within a school, as not all student speech was protected by the ruling. Student speech that "materially and substantially interfere[s] with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school" is not protected, and thus is subject to disciplinary action by school officials.
"The interpretation that most courts of give it to that material substantial disruption prong of the Tinker standard is speech that creates a serious, physical disruption that doesn't allow normal school activities take place," Student Press Law Center Senior Legal Counsel Mike Hiestand said.
For example, if students were to post signs advertising a walkout, encouraging other students to participate, Hiestand believes that the signs would fall under the speech prohibited by the Tinker standard.
"That would actually be the sort of speech that the court was talking about because that's sort of speech that anyone can reasonably conclude that that was going to lead to a serious physical disruption of school," Hiestand said. "Walking out of a class, that's about as disruptive as you can get."
Principal Jens Brandt, and the California Ed Code, classify "disruptive" speech as anything that is "obscene, libelous [or] slanderous."
"There is an exception [to the first amendment] when it becomes disruptive to the safety and well being of those present on campus, which is of course, students and staff,"
— Jens Brandt
"So this is the reason for example, somebody cannot wear a swastika on a T-shirt, because when people come onto a campus have the expectation and the right to it, being free of hate and a safe environment," Brandt said
Students in the past have tried to use their "freedom of speech" as justification to say or do whatever they want on campus, including justifying hate speech. Brandt says he supports students' right to express themselves and their beliefs, but at the same time he must protect other students' safety.
"A few years ago, we had some students that wanted to have the Confederate flag flying out of the back of their car and park on campus. I let them know that they were not allowed to do so because of the hate that is a associated with it," Brandt said. "What I communicated to these students was the following: You have every right in the world to put that flag on the back of your car as long as it's parked off of our campus. We need to make sure that all students on our campus feel safe and protected at all times."
Meghan Schooler, assistant principal at RUHS, constitutes anything that can disrupt a students' physical or mental state of mind as speech prohibited under the Tinker standard.
"If speech makes it so that another student cannot be focused and does not feel safe, it is disrupting the environment. Disruptive is not just yelling something in the middle of class," Schooler said. "Whether the threat is physical, verbal, or otherwise towards another person, it very disruptive for that individual during school. It's impossible to think about high level math problems when you're wondering whether or not you're safe."
Brandt also notes that dress code does not fall under freedom of speech or expression.
"We have to make sure that this is a distraction free environment for students to learn. And we're just asking people to be reasonable. I'm not asking for people to dress conservatively," Brandt said. "I think everybody can agree upon the fact that we just don't want body parts essentially being exposed. And, like I said, a distraction free environment, not just for our students, but our staff members to feel comfortable teaching young people."
The fourth amendment grants all Americans protection against unreasonable search and seizure, protecting their right to privacy. Students' right to privacy, however, became ever more complicated with the advent of social media
Hiestand believes one of the most contested issues in the legal community is where the line is drawn on the school's jurisdiction online.
"There used to be avery clear line between what a student did on campus and what a student did off campus and what sort of authority school officials had over that. So the minute that you walked across the street from the school and onto the public sidewalk used to be pretty much the end of your principal's authority over you," Heistend said. "With the internet and social media, the line has changed."
Content posted on public accounts is fair game for administrators to obtain, according to Heistend.
"If it's a public account, once you put stuff online in a public fashion there's no legal restrictions on school officials or anybody else being able to look at it," Hiestand said. "Whether or not they can take you and then punish you for things that you've done online outside of school hours, that's the hot issue right now."
Because actions on social media can affect a student during school hours, mentally or socially, Schooler believes that school has the right to intervene.
"If something is disrupting the learning environment, it doesn't have to occur during school hours. There can be something that's posted at midnight that you're still thinking about the next day," Schooler said. "So it can be disruptive, even if the posts and actions took place outside of school hours. It can still impact the school day."
However, to Hiestand, what happens online at midnight is exactly the type of senario the school should stay out of.
"If a student is engaged in conduct off campus, it's not the job of the principal to punish students for material they are writing from a private computer at midnight from their bedroom," Hiestand said. "That's really dangerous slope to start down. That's the sort of behavior I think school officials have no business being involved in. They should have much better things to do than to nominate themselves as the off campus police like that."
Hiestand argues that there is typically no conclusive connection between actions on social media and their impact during the school day.
"We've seen these outrageous sorts of instances where school officials think that they do have kind of 24/7 authority over students, and that's absolutely not the case," Hiestand said. "The only time where school officials have been able really to punish students for their off campus expression on social media or otherwise lately when there is a very clear connection to speech the that happens to be taking place off campus and on campus activities or conduct."
Brandt agrees that illegal activities that are posted on social media do not yield disciplinary consequences unless the students posts about buying or selling of illegal substances or they are an endangerment to themselves or those around them.
"The only reason we would get involved is if there was fear the student was endangering himself or herself. If there's a photo of a student passed out next to alcohol and or drugs, that's where the counselors would intervene," Brandt said. "There wouldn't be any disciplinary consequences. If there's anything like threat of violence, like if you have a student holding a gun or holding a knife, of course, police [would be] involved immediately; there would be disciplinary consequence immediately. I think this goes without saying."
The High Tide has the right to publish whatever it wants, as long as what it publishes is not obscene, libelous, or slanderous, or solicits illegal activities on school grounds. Administraton cannot prevent the publishing of an article as long as it meets those conditions.
The right to freedom of press as a student publication is protected by the Calif. Student Free Expression Law of 1977. Only 13 states have laws similar to Calif. The rest of the country does not have these additional protection and is governed by the standard set by the Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier case of 1988.
"In the 37 other states, students are in deep trouble in many cases. The Hazelwood case really did get rid of any sort of attempt to balance student first amendment rights against the authority of school officials," Hiestand said. "It pretty much gave all those sorts of rights to school officials after Hazelwood."
The Supreme Court ruled school officials can censor an editorial or article because it is "inconsistent with the shared values of a civilized social order" — language used in the decision that Hiestand calls "crazy and unbelievable." According to Hiestand, schools could declare an article "poorly written" or "inappropriate" so that is falls under this standard, opening it up to censorship.
"In these 37 states, lack of students' first amendment protection is unbelievable in terms of its weakness and the sort of credence that we give to young voices," Heistand said."
— Mike Hiestand
Even though it would be illegal in Calif. to censor any content that is not obscene or libelous, Schooler says that she would not attempt to censor the High Tide if there was an article that she considered inappropriate.
"It's less about what you can or can't write," Schooler said. "I would ask that the newspaper is mindful of the role you play in the community and take that seriously. I would hope that the newspaper thinks through what its printing and remembers that it's a representative of this entire school."
Petitioning is a way of letting people know that change needs to occur, whether it be on a school-wide or a national level. Students are able to petition to administration or the district if they are unhappy with the way that things are being run. However, regardless of how vocal students are, administration does not necessarily have to listen to anything students say.
Despite this fact, Schooler encourages RUHS students to advocate for the improvements that they want to see.
"I love the idea of people having agency and pushing or asking questions, or looking for routes to improve and change things," Schooler said. "Administration is a place to start. We might be the one enforcing the rule that you don't like, [but] that doesn't mean that I'm not also open to discussing it with students."
RUHS administration guarantees students their right to due process through what Brandt calls "progressive discipline." This means conducting thorough investigations to find out who is responsible for the transgression.
"A good example of due process is really digging in deep and finding out who's responsible for what, but we take our time with that," Brandt said. "And you know, it's innocent until proven guilty. And we look for evidence of the behavior and then there are consequences based on that evidence. That's due process in our minds."
Due process on campus means that everyone involved in the issue is asked for his or her perspective on what occurred.
"I want to hear what happened from your perspective, if there's other people that were witness to it, or people that are involved that you think I need to speak to, I will speak to them. If the situation you were involved in had both a perpetrator and a victim, I would want both perspectives," Schooler said. "And then based on as much evidence as possible, [I would] move forward with determining what seemed to happen, and what's the appropriate response based on that, but never just based off of the account from one person."
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@johnjohnston A lot of what I see is nature rebalancing itself, healing, from the ravages of Man so it's for the better. When I was young almost all the predators had been wiped out in this area. Deer were still around but over hunted. Birds of prey were endangered due to the ravages of DDT. Today all of these are back with a vengence.
As an example, when I was young in the summer you could put the cat out for the night. I lived in an place surrounded by woodlands and for the most part the cat was in quite overjoyed to be prowling around at night. Doing that today, where I live would be a death sentence for the cat because of the coyotes which are now all around us. Coyotes were declared almost extinct here in the early 1970's, all bounties were lifted, peoples attitudes changed, and now they have come back in a big way. The rabbits are not so thrilled though.


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AG: Multiple DUI Convictions Are Indicia Alien Lacks 'Good Moral Character'
Not a hard and fast rule, but both a statutory and discretionary consideration on a 'coveted and scarce form of relief'
By Andrew R. Arthur on October 28, 2019
In a decision in Matter of Castillo-Perez, the attorney general (AG) held last week that multiple convictions for driving under the influence (DUI) are "strong evidence" that an alien lacked the good moral character required for cancellation of removal. He also, implicitly, suggested that immigration judges (IJs) are not all following the strict standards that Congress has set for that relief.
There are a lot of different legal points that are at issue, so in the interest of brevity, I will attempt to address them broadly.
Section 240A(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) allows aliens who are removable from the United States to apply to have their removal cancelled and be granted green cards if they have been physically present in the United States for not less than 10 years before making that application, have a "been a person of good moral character" during that 10-year period, have not been convicted of certain criminal offenses, and show that their removal "would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" to a qualifying relative. The list of qualifying relatives is limited to U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident (LPR) spouses, parents, and children.
This form of relief is known as "42B cancellation" (after the application's form number), and even if the alien satisfies these requirements, he or she can still be denied that relief in the exercise of discretion.
"Good moral character", on the other hand, is defined in the negative in section 101(f) of the INA, which is to say that provision generally identifies aliens who do not have good moral character. Included are habitual drunkards, those who have derived their income principally from illegal gambling activities, certain criminals, individuals who have given false testimony, aliens who have been confined as a result of convictions for 180 days or more, and aliens convicted of aggravated felonies, as well as Nazi persecutors, aliens who participated in genocide, those who have committed acts of torture or extrajudicial killings, and aliens who have committed severe violations of religious freedom.
That provision of the INA contains a "catch-all clause", as well, which states: "The fact that any person is not within any of the foregoing classes shall not preclude a finding that for other reasons such person is or was not of good moral character." [Emphasis added]
In his October 25 decision, the AG found: "Multiple DUI convictions during the relevant (10-year) period are strong evidence that an alien lacked good moral character during that time and is thus not eligible for cancellation of removal." In particular, he determined that such individuals are "likely" unable to show good moral character under the "catch-all clause" above in section 101(f) of the INA.
He supported this finding through reference to state laws and various court decisions relating to DUI, noting: "Good moral character requires adherence to the generally accepted moral conventions of the community, and criminal activity is probative of non-adherence to those conventions. ... This country has spoken clearly on the morality of DUI."
He determined, however, that multiple convictions for DUI are not conclusive evidence that a 42B applicant lacks good moral character. For example, he found that the alien applicant could show that his or her "multiple convictions" for DUI were an "aberration", and that the alien still thus could make a showing of good moral character. He concluded, however, that a 42B applicant "may not make this showing merely by demonstrating that he reformed himself after those convictions by, for instance, addressing a problem with substance abuse," rejecting the conclusions of the IJ below, because, as the AG noted, good moral character is required for the entire 10-year period prior to filing the 42B application.
He held: "Absent substantial relevant and credible contrary evidence, multiple DUI convictions require that the immigration judge deny cancellation of removal," and "that evidence of two or more DUI convictions during the relevant period establishes a presumption that an alien lacks good moral character."
The AG also found that even absent the good-moral-character bar, aliens who have multiple convictions for DUI "would likely be denied cancellation of removal as a purely discretionary matter." In particular, he noted:
Multiple DUI convictions are a serious blemish on a person's record and reflect disregard for the safety of others and for the law. ... Given the reckless and dangerous nature of the crime of DUI and the limited number of aliens who may be granted cancellation of removal each year, aliens with multiple DUI convictions are likely undeserving of such discretionary relief.
Moreover, interestingly, the AG stated in a footnote: "Multiple DUI convictions that involve alcohol should also prompt an immigration judge to assess whether the alien is or was a 'habitual drunkard' categorically lacking good moral character under section 101(f)(1) of the INA." His reference to this fact indicates that it is not a rule of inflexible application, but is still a finding that an IJ can make in an appropriate case.
Also of interest was another point the AG made by way of background:
Cancellation of removal is a coveted and scarce form of relief. Under the INA, the Attorney General may cancel the removal of only 4,000 aliens per year. ... As the Ninth Circuit has recognized, "[i]n 1997, the first year that the quota was in effect, the limit was reached in the month of February." ... Because immigration judges continued to "reach[] the annual 4,000 limitation early in the fiscal year," they began "reserving" decisions on many applications until subsequent fiscal years, contributing to backlogs and delays in the immigration adjudication system. As a result, according to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, 3,500 cancellation of removal slots have been filled on the first day of each of the last five fiscal years. The other 500 slots are set aside to be granted to detained aliens throughout the year.
With demand for cancellation of removal well outstripping supply, immigration judges should grant such relief, in an evenhanded way, only to the most deserving candidates.
Reading between the lines, the AG appears to be giving notice to the immigration courts that they should be more circumspect in granting 42B cancellation.
Congress added 42B cancellation of removal to the INA in section 304 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA), largely replacing a similar form of relief known as "suspension of deportation". As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has explained:
Before IIRIRA, relief could be granted to an alien who had been physically present for 7 years, who had had good moral character, and whose deportation would result in extreme hardship to the alien or to the alien's citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent. Stricter standards — 10 years' presence and "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" — existed for aliens who were deportable on certain criminal, fraud, or security grounds, while eased standards existed for certain abused spouses and children.
IIRIRA also placed the aforementioned caps on the number of aliens who could be granted 42B cancellation. Both the heightened standards and the cap reflected Congress's concern that IJs were granting suspension of deportation too freely, largely reading out the hardship provision required for that relief.
Perhaps the case that best demonstrates how loose the standards for suspension of deportation had become was the June 14, 1996, decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) in Matter of O-J-O-.
The alien there was an unmarried 24-year-old Nicaraguan who had been denied asylum. He had no qualifying relatives, and had lived in the United States since he was 13 (arriving one month before his 14th birthday). He had completed elementary school, junior high school, and high school in this country, spoke English, and was working "as an independent hauler". According to the BIA, the respondent was "deeply involved in church activities", and was studying theology in hopes of ordination. He had "close friends in the Los Angeles area", including a legally present cousin he saw "on a daily basis", his brother's fiancée, and his own fiancée (whom he had known for three years and who was pursuing her own asylum application).
The most interesting part of the BIA's analysis was the following:
The respondent is a baseball enthusiast who attends many games each year. He also participates as a player on city league baseball and softball teams. The manager of his baseball team provided a letter praising the respondent as an athlete who has been of great value to the team and the community.
In reversing the IJ's denial of suspension of deportation, the BIA rejected the IJ's findings that the respondent "could participate in church activities and become involved in community activities, such as baseball, in Nicaragua," concluding:
The hardship related to community involvement ... derives from the loss of the personal and social bonds established during the course of such activities. We consider not only the length of residence, but also the degree of integration into American society and the strength of attachments to friends and community.
The dissent was blunt in response:
Congress deliberately used extreme language in requiring "extreme hardship." In view of the history behind the adoption of this test, the Supreme Court case law, and the administrative practice over the last 20 or more years, I see no justification for us to apply anything other than a plain meaning or narrow approach to the concept of extreme hardship.
This does not mean that relief is only available when the level of hardship becomes unbearable, or that we must be guided only by the harshest interpretations seen in past years. But we ought to be able reasonably to describe serious detriment before we can fairly characterize a set of circumstances as involving "extreme hardship." Within this overall frame of reference, I find the majority's explanation unpersuasive.
The conference report for IIRIRA explained why that legislation had (largely) replaced suspension of deportation with cancellation of removal, calling out Matter of O-J-O- for special mention:
The managers have deliberately changed the required showing of hardship from ''extreme hardship'' to ''exceptional and extremely unusual hardship'' to emphasize that the alien must provide evidence of harm to his spouse, parent, or child substantially beyond that which ordinarily would be expected to result from the alien's deportation. The ''extreme hardship'' standard has been weakened by recent administrative decisions holding that forced removal of an alien who has become ''acclimated'' to the United States would constitute a hardship sufficient to support a grant of suspension of deportation. See Matter of O–J–O-. ... Such a ruling would be inconsistent with the standard set forth in new section 240A(b)(1). Similarly, a showing that an alien's United States citizen child would fare less well in the alien's country of nationality than in the United States does not establish ''exceptional'' or ''extremely unusual'' hardship and thus would not support a grant of relief under this provision. Our immigration law and policy clearly provide that an alien parent may not derive immigration benefits through his or her child who is a United States citizen. The availability in truly exceptional cases of relief under section 240A(b)(1) must not undermine this or other fundamental immigration enforcement policies. [Emphasis added.]
Even given the backlog in cases pending before the immigration courts, it is exceptional that more than 4,000 alien respondents per year are still able to satisfy the extremely high standards for 42B cancellation. And, as the AG noted, the manner in which IJs are granting that "coveted and scarce form of relief" is itself contributing to the backlog.
Should IJs not take the AG's hint, I would expect to see him issue another decision that circumscribes what constitutes "exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" to a qualifying relative for 42B relief. In the interim, given the AG's conclusions with respect to the consequences of multiple DUI convictions in Matter of Castillo-Perez, I would anticipate that a number of pending 42B cancellation cases, that would have otherwise been granted, will be denied.
Topics: Immigration Courts
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Steve Adragna Suggests Transgender Community Changes Gender "Every Six Months"
on Oct 04, 2019 October 4, 2019
Republicans in Northern Virginia have a history of trying to claim they don't support discrimination, but belittling the LGBT community and supporting policies that make them second class citizens. The latest example of this came in a League of Women Voters forum held last night for candidates running in the 42nd House of Delegates district and Springfield School Board races.
When candidates were asked what they would do to help prevent discrimination against the LGBT community, Steve Adragna claimed he didn't want to make anyone feel as though they weren't equal. That would have been a decent position to take even though it contradicts positions his party has taken, but he went on to claim that preventing discrimination based on someone's gender identity would "force corporations to switch the pronouns they use for someone every six months."
This completely diminishes the struggles facing the transgender community and helps show he clearly doesn't actually believe everyone should be treated as equals. Just because someone is transgender doesn't mean they're going to change their gender "every six months." To imply they'll simply be changing their gender willy nilly whenever they feel like it suggests he doesn't have respect for their true gender identity and therefore thinks they shouldn't be protected from employers who can fire them simply for being transgender.
Of course, this isn't the first time a Republican in Fairfax County has used a similar type of reasoning to claim there shouldn't be laws banning discrimination based on gender identity. Tom Wilson, who currently represents the Sully District on the School Board has suggested the transgender community isn't real and says preventing discrimination against trans people would mean he could suddenly wake up and decide to be a mother.
Ironically, both of these men constantly talk about how they're supposedly running because they're sick of partisan politics and they want to focus on the needs of the community instead of promoting a political agenda. Their insistence on devaluing an entire group of people and promoting an anti-LGBT agenda, however, shows they unquestionably have a right wing agenda they hope to promote while in office.
Elizabeth Schultz has also joined calls for blocking any effort to ban discrimination against the LGBT community, of course, but she makes no pretense to hide her bigotry. She's even spoken at events sponsored by the Family Research Council, which has officially been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. And as recently as last week's school board meeting, she claimed her fellow board members were too focused on promoting a "radical social agenda" rather than providing real solutions for students.
While all of this is disappointing, Delegate Kathy Tran showed residents of the 42nd district have an opportunity to be represented by someone who actually does believe in equality. She highlighted how she supported legislation that would prevent discrimination in public housing and employment based on sexual orientation. Unfortunately, both pieces of legislation were killed in subcommittee by the Republican majority. The good news is it appears as though they would have been passed by the full House if a few extreme conservatives hadn't prevented them from moving forward.
Laura Jane Cohen who's running to replace Schultz on the School Board also made it clear that she supports measures that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. While it was said as part of a larger discussion about One Fairfax, Laura Jane said she strongly believes every student deserves an equal opportunity for success no matter what background they came from.
What this all means is that conservatives in Northern Virginia have often tried to portray themselves as supporting equality for all, but have no problem mocking the transgender community and suggesting efforts to ban discrimination against trans people don't deserve serious consideration.
Elizabeth Schultz, Fairfax County, Fairfax County School Board, Kathy Tran, LGBT rights, Steve Adragna, Virginia House of Delegates
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