I recently became aware of a very old practice dating back at least to the victorian period of pinaforing unruly boys. Could this be source of man's deep-seated fear of the feminine?moonshadow wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 1:51 pm In a world and culture that seems hell bent on silencing people... I believe the pen is mightier than the sword.
Do you know why we are really free to wear skirts? Because of an expanse of ideas. It is called progress and it only happens when ideas flow freely. In this regard the internet has been instrumental.
This is why authoritarian dictators so often attack freedom of speech first, and as is evident in stories like Orwell's 1984, the best way to control a populace is to control what it says and writes, when we can no longer speak and write our stories freely, then so goes the freedom of the mind.
It is imperative that we tell our stories, it is the most vital ingredient for a free society.
Down with book burners!
Its obviously not the clothes, I'm sure they felt perfectly fine. To be laughed at and ridiculed would have had a profound affect on boys and quickly brought them into line and put them firmly in their place.
Any hope of free speech would be crushed by such such treatment.