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I walk the dog a couple of times a day, always in a skirt or kilt. Often get into conversions about the dog or kilt, rarely the skirt though.

Another article in The Guardian about school uniforms here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/the-tyranny-of-the-schoolgirl-skirt-still-haunts-me Refreshingly, it doesn't raise the usual red herrings about sexuality. It concludes with: I have no real axe to grind with school skir...

It is clear from many comments on this site that many men feel very limited in their clothing choices. They fear censure from society, both from men and women. This behaviour is self limiting.

This a good article because it doesn't posit a precondition of trans/gay for a man to wear a skirt or dress. Rather it shows that such garments should be in the normal range of clothing for men, regardless of their sexual identity.

Frock is used fairly often in Australian newspapers, less so in everyday speech.

Amusing reaction from Glenn Close here:
https://twitter.com/thervt/status/11000 ... ryngula%2F

Dillon, agreed.

See also the top link

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Scotsman

Stu, I think this thread is getting widely off topic. When I look at the data (yours and other sources) I see quite different numbers. For instance, femicides by partners in Australia is a serious sociological problem, and it is a least an order of magnitude greater than female deaths by lightning (...

Stu, If you want evidence from Australia about how the victims of serious violence between partners are overwhelming female look at https://www.ourwatch.org.au/understanding-violence/facts-and-figures and http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/challenging-the-mra-claim-of-a-domestic-violence-co...

Stu, I don't agree with you analysis of western society, both past and present, and I can see we are far apart on this. All the women I know well enough say they have had to endure many oafish men who try to control them and oppress their ambitions, not to mention physically assault them. I came acr...

Stu,
Do you think the western world is not a patriarchy? How would you describe the social structure? Perhaps confining women to skirts for hundreds of years was just egalitarianism, or was it a meritocracy then?

Rod

One of the comments on the first article was: MarkB35 Challenging the patriarchy is often a thankless task. At my school I decided to make a stand : the shirt , tie and trousers went in the bin and I arrived one Monday morning in a skirt and blouse. The sniggering didn't bother me at all but I recei...

Couple of recent Guardian articles on this. The first one says 'Let everybody wear them': https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/03/ban-skirts-in-school-gender-stereotypes https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/02/banning-school-skirts-uniform-misogyny-upskirting-sexualisation...

Never had a bad comment in Perth or WA either. Lots of curious glances and smiles, and quite a few words of approval, mostly from women. A few days ago I got a high five from a teenage boy while I was riding my bike in a kilt. Of course there are always the questions from small children, asking thei...