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I've actually pretty much given up on dressing the part of the peacock as I was starting to get a fair amount of pushback about it -- even from friends (who should have known better). I worry now about getting picked up off the street for being a perceived threat and disappeared off into some (othe...

This idea that men and women are different body shapes is not really true. Yes, women classically have the “hourglass” body shape, but the reality? Women come in all different shapes and sizes. There is even variations within men as well. The simple truth is that clothes should be sold by body shap...

"...people who don't fit the norm..." Such people may be find a superficial tolerance for their presence. (And don't expect success in romantic relationships). Without their strange choices being accepted as mainstream. At best, such a person may have a status as an eccentric; not harasse...

I also agree with Stevie on this, and it's worth noting that freedom implies the risk of goofing from time to time on experiments. This is to be expected and must be accepted as one of the risks. Note that the risk is one of the challenges and draws to the notion. The world is not meant to be a soft...

As I have already asked politely once, please cease responding to this thread as you are disrupting a productive conversation with other members. I have reported your post. Members silencing each other over differences of opinion is not the way to move forward. That's not a discussion, that's a tac...

And for my last point - it's that shifting of perspective that has been the biggest "punch to the gut" when it comes to my skirted outfits. When I first started it was very simple - knee-length skirt + graphic t-shirt + tennis shoes/sneakers. But as I obtained a variety of skirts - both i...

Grok wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 7:20 pmSometimes I wonder if the Mainstream will have to go through this long, tedious progression:

Scooters > Skorts > Actual Skirts > Dresses

Likely not in the civilised part of the world. Folks in the undeveloped/backwards places need to be very, very careful for the next 100 years or so.

Maybe they will feel forced to look outside their box when women take the last of what they deem as theirs. More likely that they'll just ketch and whinge like the lemmings they are. Among the many things that men have lost is the ability to "think outside the box", act, and do great thin...

Is it necessary to learn compositional theory to enjoy music? No. Is it necessary to learn semiconductor physics and electrical engineering if one it to pursue computing? No. Is it necessary to learn chemical and mechanical engineering and metallurgy to become a marksman? No. Do those sorts of deep ...

Seb wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 9:07 pmLet them have at it! We don't want them anyway.

Well, at least the ones of us who have cast off the shackles of machismo don't. The rest are trapped.

hat amazes me, is that many women, who do know better what is possible, now seem to want to wear the same stiff/scratchy clothes as men have! It does have some interesting resonances with mass hysteria, doesn't it? Closed minds in stressful times -- precisely what we don't need at the moment. Whate...

Barleymower wrote: ↑Sun Nov 02, 2025 12:38 pmPlain.

And, preferably stiff/scratchy. In other words, the typical uniform -- denim.

I feel sorry for the poor souls so encased; however, they know no better -- and like parachutes, minds only work properly when open.

Its a good thing in introducing some diversity but it won't matter unless people actually start wearing them. Men's and woman's fashion are always going to be different because male and female bodies are not shaped or proportioned the same way. It's valuable to point that out, but it's also worth r...

I think the designers for the mens collections have a really hard time in coming up with something interesting and new that is inside the man box. That's likely because the last interesting stuff "left the 'man box'" about the same time as when Elvis "left the building". Yes, it...

Carl i've no wish to argue but I really dont see the wows of men to be in any way the fault of women. They have their faults, so do men and we are in this together. It's not an argument at all, so no worries! Men's woes are not directly the "fault of women" but rather of the complex dynam...