That's the way it still is. Nothing's changed, really, in spite of the Industrial Revolution which did a little bit to level the playing field and created what because the "Middle Class". All that progress has now been reversed and we're back to "Landed Gentry" and "peasants". The primary force was simple economics -- as it is now -- although there were "sumptuary laws" for a while that forbade rabble from dressing above their position.moonshadow wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 4:43 pmIf anything, prior to the Industrial revolution and the modern notions of the capitalist society, my overall understanding of society prior to the industrial revolution is not so much one of masculine vs feminine classes, but rather one of the ruling class vs the peasantry. I understand that during those days, peasants were generally forbidden to wear clothing designed for the ruling class, and thus was generally restricted to boring, dull, and bland clothing. Flamboyance and flair was reserved for the ruling classes only, mostly royalty. It was less a matter of what you carried between your legs, but more a matter of what you carried in your purse, or better yet, what your last name and pedigree was.
I will bring up J. Edgar Hoover in this context. He was infamous for his crossdressing. [2]There is no way Rockefeller or J.P. Morgan would have been taken seriously if they wore dresses to the office.
Mr. Bezos is likely trying to compensate -- and even then can't achieve insertion [0].Even people like Jeff Bezos isn't immune, consider the giant penis he designed to ride to the edge of space [0].
[0] Orbital insertion, that is, although the other one might be a potential candidate as well.
[1] Moon's footnote [0] damned near caused me to choke with laughter.
[2] A standing joke when my father went through college was that each night of drinking started off with a toast: "To J. Edgar Hoover -- our eternal companion."
