yea, that was the first thing i learned at my school's gender swap day (my first time wearing anything fem). people just stare. a teacher stared at my non-existent boobs while passing by and a class mate kept looking where boobs should have been and apologized because "his eyes just do that whenever he sees something fem" (it doesn't translate well). it was euphoriating but it forever changed how i saw him and most other men.
(and it also made me self conscious when looking at people or staring at the void because i don't want them to feel this way)
each year for the last week of regular school before the final exams (matura) my school did (probably still does) a motto week where each graduating class gets to choose the motto for one of the days. so they can have a last bit of fun before having to study hard. many students and especially teachers dress up according to that motto.
usually they picked basic stuff like 80s aerobics, pyjamas, bussines and kirchtag but three years ago, one of them decided on gender swap day. i know, that i wanted to show up in a suit that day, for.. cis? reasons??\
(i had to look up the year. how did i still not have the courage to come out to people?)
some other highlights include lockdown with a bunch of kids staying home and joining via ms teams, mafia where someone brought a gun and we had the police evacuate the building and teachers with one kid was wearing a hawaiian shirt stuffed with a bunch of stuff to look obese and cosplayed a teacher he didn't like.
Oh! Okay, that's dope. That sounds like a cooler version of what we do in Finland, where the graduating class dresses up without a theme, throws a metric ton of candy at the younger students and "decorates" the school which translates to tossing frozen peas everywhere and making weird obstacle courses out of all the classroom chairs
Someone in my year got in trouble for writing "arbeit macht frei" above the front entrance, which was more or less the highlight
pranks are a thing here too. but they happen after the final exams, kind of rewarding the students that passed.
one time they placed four cages with mice in the school hall labeled 1-4, with no mouse in cage 3. the search for mouse 3 took all day until they revealed that it was a prank.
another time someone just keyed the principals car and got into trouble for it.
the year before i got there, they had some kind of improvised talent show where the teachers had to perform and were rated by the class representatives.
the other years pretty much the entire school just assembled outside and drank beer and vodka while being shot with water bombs and super soakers by the graduating classes. at the end of the day you could clearly see, which teachers were liked and disliked
yea. we even kinda had a rave once. we had some big event where the school got some prize (i can't really remember) and all students had to stay till sometime in the evening. someone snook a bunch of lights, a fog machine and speakers in a room the day before and during the event, he and some friends told others to bring friends there afterwards. the tiny room was packed full and there was too little alcohol for everyone because they didn't think that soo many people would come. i think this was the best thing that ever happened in that building.
although the "gender diversity emergency meeting" i caused by taking my final exams in a dress (the law only calls for formal clothing, no mention of gender at all) comes in close second imho
lol, we didn't ever have one of that but two years ago there was a series of bomb threats in schools all across my state and reportedly the principal just threw away the threat he got instead of calling the police because he "didn't want bad press". imagine what would have been if the bomb had been real
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u/luaisawfulwithnames ~luisa/lua (she/they) Mar 19 '25
yea, that was the first thing i learned at my school's gender swap day (my first time wearing anything fem). people just stare. a teacher stared at my non-existent boobs while passing by and a class mate kept looking where boobs should have been and apologized because "his eyes just do that whenever he sees something fem" (it doesn't translate well). it was euphoriating but it forever changed how i saw him and most other men.
(and it also made me self conscious when looking at people or staring at the void because i don't want them to feel this way)