We're the majority!

[Hayseed]

Here's a subversive thought.

On any given day, only about one-half of one percent of women will be wearing a skirt or dress (apart from those few who are "expected / required" to wear such attire). This can be easily verified by simply looking around.

Now, the question is; on such a given day, how many men will wear a skirt or dress? Although this is, to say the least, very difficult to ascertain, I suspect the number is very small, maybe 1 or 2 percent. But if that is the case, then on that same given day, the large majority of people voluntarily wearing skirts or dresses are men! It's just that they are hidden rather than wearing them openly.

Given the extreme level of social and other pressures against MIS, the phenomenon must spread out of sight, underground, growing imperceptibly. But I think we can rest assured that it is growing and right now is such that we are the majority of skirt wearers. Really!

[Mouse]

I play a game when I get on a tube train along your line of thinking. Quite often there are more skirted men in the carriage than skirted women, the score being 1 - 0. Wintertime, I almost always win, summer, depending on the sun, not so much.

[Hayseed]

I play a game when I get on a tube train along your line of thinking. Quite often there are more skirted men in the carriage than skirted women, the score being 1 - 0. Wintertime, I almost always win, summer, depending on the sun, not so much.

Yes, the score is usually 1-0 wherever I go as well. But the larger question is; what would the score be if we could only know and count those men who wear skirts that day but only privately? Maybe 10-0.

Skirts have largely been abandoned by women except for special occasions and maybe the first nice day in the Spring. Other than that, the only females I see wearing skirts / dresses are the very young (4-7 y.o).

[JohnH]

I certainly do my part to even out the score of men wearing skirts and dresses. The last time I wore trousers was to my mother's funeral in late September.

John

[Faldaguy]

Sorry Hayseed, but I don't buy your stats or limited sample sites. I'm not in an area where skirts or dresses are common, but I can count quite a few in the course of a day, and nary another guy -- and I'm out about daily. The same holds true when travelling. Indeed there are far fewer women wearing their skirts or dresses daily or even a time or two a week; but it is self- deception to think men are anywhere close to being out front in that race.

[DrFishnets]

This thread is similar to the one I made about being the only middle aged MIS in my town.

It has been for a long time that it’s even getting rare seeing a woman in a skirt of dress but still it’s more than seeing men in skirts. When I’m out I usually spot one or two men in skirts or dresses per week. Those men are usually younger men from ages 18 to early 30s and are probably LGBTQ.

I remember years ago in the late 1990s and early 2000s there used to be an elderly guy in his late 60s who was a college lecturer used to walk around town in skirts, dresses and tights but I don’t seem to see him anymore.

[STEVIE]

Hi Hayseed,
Nice and whimsical, cosy wishful thinking even amusing.
In the real world though, no chance whatsoever.
Sure women can be predominantly in trousers, but if I see a few hundred people today, I will be most unlikely to see another guy in a skirt.
In Dr Fishnet's thread, I also noted the predilection of gender fluid young men for trousers based on that being a reference point for femininity for that generation.
In pure fashion terms, skirts are at a low even compared to dresses and after trousers, I will likely see a good number of females in one.
Another guy in a dress or a skirt, a majority?
Steve.

[Stu]

On the "we're the majority" point, whenever I have seen surveys that ask whether it's OK for men to wear skirts, there is invariably a substantial majority who answer YES. I do wonder, though, if the women who answered YES would feel the same way if a man close to them took them at their word and started wearing skirts. In other words, what they meant was YES (but not my husband, boyfriend, brother, dad or son) .

[crfriend]

On the "we're the majority" point, whenever I have seen surveys that ask whether it's OK for men to wear skirts, there is invariably a substantial majority who answer YES. I do wonder, though, if the women who answered YES would feel the same way if a man close to them took them at their word and started wearing skirts. In other words, what they meant was YES (but not my husband, boyfriend, brother, dad or son) .

Sadly, the latter case is what happens > 95% of the time. "I agree that men should have the option, but not MY man." I know that's scuppered at least one relationship of mine already.

[Hayseed]

Keep in mind that what I was saying was not that the majority of people you see wearing skirts in public are men. Just that the majority of folks who wear a skirt on most any day are men. It's just that they are not wearing them openly, i.e., in public.

In other words, ask the question of a random sample of men and women; did you wear a skirt or dress yesterday? Assuming honest replies, I believe that more men would answer "yes" to that question than women.

[STEVIE]

Keep in mind that what I was saying was not that the majority of people you see wearing skirts in public are men.

Sorry Hayseed, not where I live, I still see more females than males in skirts any day.
Bear in mind too that I live in the Land of Men in Skirts.
Behind closed doors, I'd reckon on a higher proportion but that's conjecture.
I'd also agree with Carl about the romantic chances for a skirted male.
As near to nil as makes no statistical impact.
Steve.

[Hayseed]

Keep in mind that what I was saying was not that the majority of people you see wearing skirts in public are men.

Sorry Hayseed, not where I live, I still see more females than males in skirts any day.
Bear in mind too that I live in the Land of Men in Skirts.
Behind closed doors, I'd reckon on a higher proportion but that's conjecture.
I'd also agree with Carl about the romantic chances for a skirted male.
As near to nil as makes no statistical impact.
Steve.

I too see more females in skirts than males - any day. And yes, it is necessarily conjecture about the number of men who wear skirts in private, but I hold to my believe that they are there and, on most given days, outnumber the females who wear skirts. It's just that the females will wear them openly whereas the males are still closeted.

Carl is probably right about the romantic chances of MIS, but I'm 77 y.o., so that isn't really an issue with me any more.

[Barleymower]

What women wear is more around their mood and the occasion. I see skirts poking out of piles of clothes discarded next to clothes bins and lady tramps asking for spare change in a battered primark dress. Skirts have no more meaning to them than a new top from Dotty P's.
I can almost read the minds of those who notice what I'm wearing: "That man is wearing a skirt" women mostly look unconcerned, slightly confused and very occasionally disgusted. Men mostly don't notice at all, if they do I truly can't fathom what they are thinking. Maybe they quicken their pace to rush home and put theirs on. Ahhh bliss.

[Mouse]

I suppose if we go along with the premise that the vast majority of men are closeted skirt wearing guys. Any male trying to get up courage to step out the front door in a skirt could take comfort in this statistic!!!

[Seb]

Around here about 10% of women will wear a skirt/dress as casual clothing most days, maybe upwards 30% when the weather is nice(and lower ofc when its -20°c and a Blizzard raging). Mostly from counting people at the mall or patients at work so not as representative as on public transit in a big city.