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- Mon May 06, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Hypothethical Question
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2422
Re: Hypothethical Question
I am not "getting in touch with my feminine side" because I am a man and I don't have a feminine side. I disagree with this statement. Psychological research over the past 50 years has proven this to be incorrect. Men and women both have feminine and masculine sides. Women are taught to e...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Hypothethical Question
- Replies: 124
- Views: 2422
Re: Hypothethical Question
Just to complicate matters further, some of us are at more than one point in the spectrum. I do the thing of wearing a skirt as a man, either in public or when working from home so that my top half looks conventional in zoom meetings. I also do the thing about fully presenting in public as a woman, ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: The war on 'effeminacy'
- Replies: 3
- Views: 237
Re: The war on 'effeminacy'
The first article described how Perseus became a hero by decapitating a sleeping woman. Admittedly the woman was dangerous but how is it heroic to kill a sleeping woman? The articles describe how masculinity has progressed a lot since Kellogg but there is still some way to go. In many western cultur...
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:12 am
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Friction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 491
Re: Friction
Definitely not going out in public again in a long skirt that significantly restricts my stride. It is fine around the house but not when you need to go a bit of distance. Not all pencil skirts do this so that option for that is still open. I agree that physical comfort is not the only criterion. I ...
- Thu May 02, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Friction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 491
Re: Friction
Just back from my skirted dress shopping, having chosen to wear the tight skirt by Next. Five new dresses and one skirt bought, all tried on. I almost changed into the very loose new skirt but I need higher heels as it is white and very long indeed and would have trailed on the ground. My friend was...
- Thu May 02, 2024 8:58 am
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Friction
- Replies: 11
- Views: 491
Friction
I am going dress shopping today and can't be bothered doing the whole dressing as a woman thing so going as man in skirt. I have two skirts to choose from that I bought recently. The problem is that at this time of year you need to wear tights unless you want to freeze. One of the skirts is a long b...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:21 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: giant skirts
- Replies: 22
- Views: 712
Re: giant skirts
I have done this twice in public, both times when presenting as a woman. Once was when staying in a country house hotel. I had an old-fashioned black and white polka dot fifties dress by Vivien of Holloway and consulted the receptionist about wearing it for dinner in the hotel and she said to go for...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Harry Styles again
- Replies: 22
- Views: 872
Re: Harry Styles again
Though there is a lot of truth in the stereotyping described here, I think reality is more nuanced. If a woman dresses in a very masculine way most of the time she will probably be suspected of being gay - it is not true that there is zero criticism. Her masculinity will be more criticised by women ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:17 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Guardian letters
- Replies: 3
- Views: 266
Guardian letters
Today (Sat 20 April) there is a letter (in a series of letters on male baldness) in the print Guardian from a Sam Heath "a now nearly completely hairless man with alopecia" who lists five advantages of this status, the last of which is "my legs look good in a dress". No explanati...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: The boundary between skirt wearer and TV
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1640
Re: The boundary between skirt wearer and TV
Agree that the term TV should be consigned to the dustbin. I wear a skirt as a man and also at times present fully a a woman in public, complete with make up, wig, voice and body language. Other times I just wear a skirt and everything else is male. For me there is no boundary between full cross dre...
- Thu Apr 11, 2024 8:12 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: A case of mistaken skirting - pays to read comments
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1426
Re: A case of mistaken skirting - pays to read comments
I confess I had never distinguished between ethics and morals on the basis that of you strive to the highest levels of both you can't go wrong. Interesting distinction. I find the Daily Fail a subject for amusement but it isn't really funny that so many people are influenced by this hysterical drive...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: would you wear these sci-fi unisex dresses?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1447
Re: would you wear these sci-fi unisex dresses?
Thanks - I had not known the origin of the pictures. I have seen the film but am not really a film buff - I prefer books. I can recall the film slightly but no the dresses - I probably thought of them as tunics. I recall some SF book mentioning kilts but can't recall this in The Time Machine even th...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:32 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Harry Styles again
- Replies: 22
- Views: 872
Harry Styles again
Article about Harry Styles in today's Guardian. The online version is at https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/06/this-is-our-shrine-why-harry-styles-fans-are-on-pilgrimage-to-a-viaduct It doesn't have the picture that is shown in the print edition of HS in a dress with a tutu skirt. It is the ...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: would you wear these sci-fi unisex dresses?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1447
Re: would you wear these sci-fi unisex dresses?
I see nothing sci-fi about these dresses. They seem perfectly ordinary summer dresses that look very comfortable in warm weather. I already have several like this including a coupe in linen.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Doing away with "Embracing feminity"
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1490
Re: Doing away with "Embracing feminity"
I am one of a minority on this site who present as women occasionally as well as a man in a skirt/dress. At no point to identify as a woman and I do not feel I am embracing any femininity because I don't have any. I am acting. That's all. I share this exasperation with any adoption by men of anythin...