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Ha! Well, having a scientist in the membership roster never hurt! :lol: Dress like you like (I do). I can get behind this, and in fact, I pretty much live by this already. There are aspects to my own "gender identity" that I don't wear on my sleeve mainly for this reason... I don't feel l...

The problem seems to lie not in identifying a girl or a boy, but in insisting that their biological sex absolutely requires all sorts of other irrelevant things, such as wearing particular styles of clothing, or cutting their hair a certain way, or playing certain sports and not others. If people we...

My house contents insurance premium nearly doubled, so I shopped around and found a better quotation. When I called the original company to cancel the renewal, they offered me a reduced premium. I told them it was comparable to what I had found, but it was too late to play games, I'd already set up ...

I threw caution to the winds today, and wore a short black denim skirt with black tights. I wouldn't normally go beyond a kilt on a Wednesday, as the cleaners and the music teacher visit the house, but I got no reaction, even though they've not previously seen me in a skirt. The same is true of my e...

Rights are for everyone. I wore my denim kilt and had a good time in the parade. I saw one other kilt (plain black), and a good number of skirts worn by people of varied or indeterminate gender, including my friends' gender-exploring son. I swapped out the cropped T shirt for a conventional shirt la...

Nowadays, the only emotions that seem to be acceptable for men are rage and lust. Whither love, sadness, wistfulness, happiness, and even giddiness? Gone. No longer accepted as male emotions . You seem to be living on a different planet to me. Do you just follow conservative American media? I have ...

My previous car was grey. When we were buying it, I said "any colour except grey", but that was the one with the suitable spec that they had ready to go. Now I mainly drive a bright green one. I didn't choose the colour - I bought it from my Mum - but it's very handy when you're looking fo...

The restriction on education bothers me for the same reason as the old Section 28 rule about not promoting homosexuality. It's all very well preventing teachers from presenting kids with facts about other people that they do not yet need to know, but teachers need to be free to answer questions or t...

There is no longer a place at the table for plain old straight guys any longer. This statement is quite at variance with reality. Plain old straight guys still have most of the money and most of the power. (Some plain old straight guys are finally being publicly called out for predatory sexual beha...

This is the teaching on pride that I've learned. If you actually read C. S. Lewis, you will know that he was extremely learned on the subject of language and its changes, and the shifting meanings of words. Having written a whole book on four different meanings of the word "love", he woul...

I think my first time wearing a "dress" in public was playing the young Robert Louis Stevenson in a nightshirt at a primary school assembly. I wasn't bothered about the nightshirt, but I was for some reason acutely embarassed about appearing in bare feet.

anti-skirt rhetoric Where? I haven't seen any of that. I think you are letting your weariness cloud your vision. I've seen people expressing widely differing opinions on the topic of skirt-wearing and its origins, history, and social implications, but "anti-skirt rhetoric"... ???!!! it se...

So, our local Pride march and festival is this Saturday. Since some members consider that wearing a skirt must always be regarded as a fully masculine option indicating nothing about one's sexuality or gender identity, should I just wear trousers for the occasion? Actually I was thinking of wearing ...

I can see why a number of former SkirtCafe regulars have given up and gone elsewhere when the resident mods keep criticising the members. I'm becoming tired of the constant negativity on the site. I'm trying to ignore it. But next time someone gets all prickly when other members engage in "con...

The utility kilt could be seen as the opposite effect: men have taken the skirt and restricted it so that it can only be worn in one length and in drab colours.

Men aren't boring: they're scared of being thought effeminate or gay.