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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.

If you find the ManBox constraining, then there are two options: (1) try to make the box bigger; (2) step outside the box. Which you choose is up to you: clearly a lot of people here are much happier with option (1). It might be better if you didn't have to choose - if it was generally accepted that...

Who, for instance, is paying attention to male-specific cancers? Who is paying attention to the epidemic of male suicide? Who is paying attention to the problem of male depression (which links strongly into suicide)? NOBODY . Well, I don't know about the US (which I regard as to some extent a broke...

Nemo is self-identified as non-binary, so borderline MIS, but hey, it's another AMAB person in a skirt getting some ...

I was going to say exposure, but I'm not sure that's the right word!

I thought that if you can't wear a skirt at a progressive rock concert, then when can you wear one? So I got out a pleated mock-leather black skirt that I've never dared to wear before. Also a cropped T shirt (ditto), though I started the evening with a sweatshirt covering that. No comment at all at...