TopShelf TG Fiction in the BigCloset!
This surfaced today, there are articles everywhere:
You may consider my link frivolous but its only one of many that DDG threw up.
I'm not sure that I like this trend. OK it may be comfortable for men to wear but it blurs the lines over something most of us didn't want blurred: we'd rather just be on the other side!
Penny
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Comments
Is GQ a suitable site
for old biddies like me to view?
Angharad
Take your pick
As I mentioned, I just searched for Robert+Pattison+skirt and got a load of results.
Which ones you bother with are up to you, but they all show the same pictures and a certain amount of approval or otherwise. Most don't seem to think it is an issue.
Penny
Scots in Kilts
Men wearing kilts, skirts, dresses, it in my opinion for one of several reasons. Seeking shock value like girls with purple hair, nose rings, lip piercing, tattoo, etc. Cross dressers? Or could be a tradition like Scots, kilts, and bagpipes?
Who am I to question who or what a person does when so many in society think I'm an abomination if they find out the birth certificate doesn't match the NOW person? There are a lot of weird people out there and I fit in just perfectly with my cowgirl boot, hat, fringed leather jacket, earrings, etc. Honestly, I'm the last of my kind. Cowboys, cowgirls, are a dying breed. I can pull it off because it's how I was born, raised, and grew up, have nothing to prove.
Hugs Ms. Lane, be true to yourself and let the riff raft around you find their own whatever floats their boat.
Barb
When we finally learn everything we understand we know nothing.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
there's also heat reasons, as
there's also heat reasons, as I understand it, its not too uncommon for blacksmiths and glass blowers of various nationalities to wear kilts.
I Wear Skirts
And, I do not consider myself to be TG.
Publicity
To me this looks more like something done for promotional purposes then out of any personal desire to wear skirts. I could be wrong, but . . . .
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Gender policing
Well, as someone who was a "man in a skirt" for a number of years (and part of an online community of "men in skirts") before I concluded that I was actually transgender, that comes across to me as gender policing, which is something I've rebelled against for as long as I can remember.
You don't have to present this way, if you don't want to, but please don't dis people who do.
Clothes are just clothes.
Imagine where we'd be if people still held to outdated beliefs of gendered wardrobe like only men getting to wear pants?
High heels are *men's* shoes!
Etc.
If people are comfortable then let them wear what they want.
Melanie E.
Time, geography and sociogroups
all define what is considered "male" and "female" attire. Thus it keep changing all the time.
Romans considered trousers barbaric. I've seen boys from what apparently was an high status school in their school uniform skirts. Presidential guards and other guard soldiers (some in very short skirts but also with heavy leggings). What would be called dresses if worn by women proliferate around the world (especially on Sundays).
So why try to box in people in what is just a cultural coincidence in time and geography?