Grok wrote: ↑Sat Sep 17, 2022 7:08 am
crfriend wrote: ↑Thu Sep 15, 2022 11:38 am
If the drab men's skirt gains acceptance the idea will stop dead right then and there leaving men with the same drab colour choices in the same idiot fabrics as they have access now. Is that
really progress? Well it's jeans again. One leg or two? Choice or merely an ever so slightly larger prison cell?
In an alternative scenario, I can imagine "stealth skirts"-because they resemble shorts-gaining acceptance. And then...stagnation. For a long time.
We would be left with a somewhat larger prison cell (or coffin).
But these thoughts, all of them, mine and yours and everyone’s, are fictitious possibilities. That skirt wearing by men hasn’t taken off before doesn’t mean it won’t happen in the hopeful near future.
You fear “stealth” or “drab” skirts will limit skirt wearing by mainstream men. This I just don’t understand.
I see two different viewpoints being proffered for the same notion.
1) men will start wearing drab or stealth skirts and this will block men from wearing more colorful, obvious skirts.
Versus
2) Men will start wearing skirts more frequently.
Honestly, I can not see how an increase in men wearing unbifurcated garments is anything but a positive for men wearing skirts.
1) Mainstream men wearing any skirt normalizes skirts on men.
2) You will still wear whatever you want but now do it with other men also wearing a skirt. You didn’t change a bit. Womens skirts will still be there for the choosing.
3) As men wear drab, boring, stealth skirts, they get comfortable with the idea and skirt. First time I put on a skirt/kilt, I felt exposed. Loved the feeling but it took time to get used to the feeling and learn the ways of not exposing the privates.
4) Increasing numbers of men wearing skirts will create a “need” for designers to design more skirts for men. Designers push envelopes. Many of the non drab/stealthy skirts I’ve seen on here could be worn by mainstream men once they get over the fact that it’s a skirt.
5) Some men, even if they start wearing a skirt, will stay with boring drab skirts. Who cares. That’s their style. Many right now are wearing jeans and a flannel as a daily uniform of masculinity. If they even begin to change and wear a skirt, it’d be a miracle. But there is no way they take the leap from boring jeans/flannel combo to mini skirt. That’s reality.
I don’t know why you’re seemingly against more men wearing skirts? In my opinion, men NOT wearing skirts is “stagnation” by definition.