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I am a bit old fashioned in that I prefer only friends and family to use my first name. Strictly speaking, I have a gender neutral title so it doesn't really affect me, especially at work, although I don't worry if people call me plain old "Mr". I went through a very brief period of being mis-gender...

My wife bought me some male face moisturiser last year because she said my skin was looking dry. I tried it once, but I didn't like how it felt - or how it smelled. That's about the only time I have had any kind of make-up on since I was about twelve.

Stu, Why would it bother you?? To me it would depend on what the child wants even if the child is sixteen years old.. I would not be uncomfortable with what ever the child wants and the parents allow. Fred - a boy of seven wanting to wear a bridesmaid's dress is beyond simply a sartorial choice; it...

Our wedding, our rules. That's precisely my point, Ray. Your rules prevail at your own wedding. You are also a Scot for whom the kilt is an entirely natural garment to wear for an occasion - it is even within the bounds of convention. That doesn't quite compare to dressing up a 7-year-old boy in fu...

On the likelihood that the child is not your offspring, why should you be perturbed over what a seven year old wears? Secondly, would you not wish to wear your own choice of garb at the same event? We are all about challenging age old gender conventions are we not? With regard to the ceremony and f...

I think for toddlers, it shouldn't be an issue what they wear and, if it's possible to let them choose to appear as a page or bridesmaid, let them. I think when they reach five or six, their gender identity is becoming established within themselves and also with friends and families. Consequently, I...

Treat it the same as you would treat trousers/pants. Would you tuck a tee-shirt in? I would only do that if I were to wear a sweater over the top.

Yes, we need to "de-gender" clothes. Full stop. I want to see unbifurcated clothing options for males, but I wouldn't go that far. It's not just a matter of size. Some clothes are designed to emphasise either the feminine or masculine body shape, or just the sex of the wearer, and I have no desire ...

Perhaps it’s just semantics, but women routinely raid the men’s aisle, and no one says they crossdress. I think that is gender discrimination against men, that is, when men do the same as women do, but are held to a different standard. So maybe that's an issue for International Men's Day? But, to b...

There is nothing sacrosanct about the perception of skirts or breasts (or ankles in a bygone age) so a change of perception would be an easy way to solve the problem and remove the discrimination. I'm not sure there is a parallel between skirts for men and bare breasts for women. A man wearing a sk...

Really? You are happy that in many workplaces women may wear skirts but skirt-wearing is prohibited for men? I am not happy about this. This sexual discrimination makes me care more about the sexual discrimination against women, which says they may not go without a shirt in the many circumstances w...

Have you got an actual source for this citation? Everything I find are online bigotry reservations or hoax-spreading websites. https://www.change.org/p/the-guardian-this-person-promotes-hate-speech-and-should-not-work-for-the-guardian In most of the world men are indeed running the majority of thin...

The IWD Goals: ✔️challenge gender norms, No thanks. I am happy with the existing gender norms ✔️empower each other, we are already "empowered". I don't feel disempowered and I don't see what powers I enjoy as a man that my wife lacks. ✔️celebrate diversity, That's just meaningless. ✔️break stereotyp...

I am a live and let live sort of chap and if people want to have a march, then by all means.

But I'm just not sure why the 51% of the human population who are female would feel the need to have a march on that basis in a modern western country.

I have been reading the Guardian for many years too, and it provides a platform for some of the most pernicious, man-hating feminist lunatics with whom we have the misfortune of sharing our society - including the likes of Julie Bindel, Laura Bates and Charlotte Proudman. It's vile. If women were e...