Sightings "in the wild"

[Myopic Bookworm]

Every single time you're "misclassified" onto the SD Spectrum (LGBTQWTF) you get slandered and insulted.

I am not insulted or slandered unless someone assumes that I am something that I consider socially undesirable or inferior. Since I would not consider it demeaning to be thought gay, just incorrect, I would not be insulted, even if the person in question was trying to insult me.

[crfriend]

I am not insulted or slandered unless someone assumes that I am something that I consider socially undesirable or inferior. Since I would not consider it demeaning to be thought gay, just incorrect, I would not be insulted, even if the person in question was trying to insult me.

You may be younger than more than a few of the cohort here who see things "differently".

[Faldaguy]

I am not insulted or slandered unless someone assumes that I am something that I consider socially undesirable or inferior. Since I would not consider it demeaning to be thought gay, just incorrect, I would not be insulted, even if the person in question was trying to insult me.

You may be younger than more than a few of the cohort here who see things "differently".

And I am older than many of the cohorts here, and I am not insulted or slandered by what others think in their minds, even if they air it someplace else. I only pity their stupidity, fear and sad, narrow little world.

To be a man and wear a skirt or dress in much of the current culture requires some gumption and confidence to know you are fully entitled to do as you dang well please with your attire. Surely we have the some insight from that, along with a tad of intellectual analysis to know such slurs are only the desperate bleating's of the insecure. No offence to goats intended!

[Spirou003]

I think feeling offended by being labelled as LGBT & cie, is not linked to the age, but instead may be more linked to someone's desire to find a romantic relationship as a plain heterosexual person. Is there anyone here who would not see any issue being labelled LGBT, while being deeply willing to start a new heterosexual romantic relationship?
Note that the discussion regarding that label, would better fit in its own thread, to my opinion.

[Midas]

I have, to the best of my knowledge, never been misclassified. I walk, talk and behave like a man and my clothing makes no difference to that. When randomly addressed by a stranger it is as ‘sir’, ‘mate’ or similar.

[Damon]

Two sightings in the past week in Ottawa, Canada.
June 28 on the Vanier Parkway, a person texting outside a Government Office building, leaning against some sort of block like structure. It was a windy day and they were wearing a light summer dress or skirt about mid thigh length. Fairly masculine build and longish blond colored hair about shoulder length. I was in traffic stopped by a red light. Wind caught the skirt and lifted it to expose everything. The person was going Commando. Just then lights went green. I was in the outer lane but I thought I glimpsed male appendages. I assumed however that the person may be a trans woman so didn't post it. Still not sure. I suspect they may have been deliberately standing where their skirt was likely to fly up in the wind. Thursday July 4th on Baseline road a man in a sort of kilt. It was tartan and knee length but hung more like a skirt. He wore black knee socks or tights and, I think, a sweater, which was crazy as it was about 28C. I would have liked to offer encouragement but I couldn't stop as i was in a flow of fast moving 70 kmh traffic.

[MrSoapsud]

While in a supermarket in Menai Bridge (Anglesey, North Wales) saw someone in a long denim skirt with a pink "tank top". Lots of dark curly hair and some stubble which leads me to believe they were a man in a skirt. Tried to comment to him but he was engrossed in his shopping!

[timemeddler]

I saw a little boy at our 4th of july parade in a sunflower maxi.

[Dust]

I have, to the best of my knowledge, never been misclassified. I walk, talk and behave like a man and my clothing makes no difference to that. When randomly addressed by a stranger it is as ‘sir’, ‘mate’ or similar.

I'm not doubting you, and I've only been briefly misclassified once that I was told about and it was as a regular woman from behind while running. My neighbor was also out running that day as well, and told me about it later; we both had a laugh.

But here's the thing: some clothing and shoes worn by many members here actually force you to move differently. I'd love to think no members ever got misclassified, but folks on here have explicitly said they were.

If you are in normal flat guy shoes, and your skirt has freedom of movement and modesty, you will likely be fine in this regard. Adjusting it as you sit, (like sweeping the pleats on a kilt) if subtle and practiced, likely won't raise eyebrows. Sitting legs together or crossed at the knees might, but likely won't lead to misclassification (and is totally necessary in many skirts). Beyond that, you better look skilled in those heels and drip manly confidence if you think no one is ever going to put you in the wrong box...

[Midas]

I prefer dresses or skirts that are around knee length at the shortest and most are midi or longer. I don’t wear heels, which all else apart are too noisy. I usually wear either trainers or women’s style boots, which do not alter the way I walk or move. I never sit cross legged and never have done, as I find it uncomfortable.

I often have a day or two of stubble and from behind my tonsure style bald patch is clearly visible.

Anyone determined to misclassify me would have to be pretty obtuse.

[greenboots]

Just seen leaving a London Overground train at Denmark Hill station a man wearing black t-shirt and black skater skirt with rainbow braid trim and white trainers.

[skirtyscot]

A couple of days ago, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, I was walking with my wife when we passed a couple going the other way. He was wearing a black maxi skirt, she was wearing ... something less memorable! I was skirted too, as you would expect. We didn't stop or speak to each other, but there was a brief nod of acknowledgement as we passed. Then a couple of seconds later she said "Did you see that he's wearing a skirt?" Hard not to: it was this one viewtopic.php?t=19498&start=266

(How do you link to a particular post?) Edited to link to the post, in the light of the help received below. Thank you guys!

[SkaterSkirtWearer]

Was at my sisters graduation and there was a male graduand in a black pleated skirt. My sisters boyfriend had got a recording of the whole event (incuding my sister and all of her friends) via the livestream the university had provided. Here is the clip without audio to protect the persons identity. It was a complete non event and I am glad he had prioritised comfort here. https://youtu.be/2-UiUsQR7qc

[shadowfax]

A couple of days ago, in the French Quarter of New Orleans, I was walking with my wife when we passed a couple going the other way. He was wearing a black maxi skirt, she was wearing ... something less memorable! I was skirted too, as you would expect. We didn't stop or speak to each other, but there was a brief nod of acknowledgement as we passed. Then a couple of seconds later she said "Did you see that he's wearing a skirt?" Hard not to: it was the one near the foot of this page viewtopic.php?t=19498&start=255

(How do you link to a particular post?)

At the end of the URL of the page which contains the post which you wish to link to, the URL finishes with &start= then a number which is the number of the post in the thread.
You then count downwards from the first post on the page which you are looking at, down to the post which you wish to refer to and change the number to the one which you've reached.
In this case the first post on the page was 255 and the one which you wanted to link to was 266.
So the complete URL is viewtopic.php?t=19498&start=266

Carl might be able to turn on a feature in the forum's software so that each individual post has a link within it which allows its URL to be copied and shared?
I've seen this feature on some other forums.

Edit: BTW This post is viewtopic.php?t=10940&start=1798

The first post in a thread is actually the zero post so it would be &start=0 at the end of the URL but that is a bit redundant!

[shadowfax]

I've just noticed that below the title of a post is a number after a hash symbol, this post's is #1800 so a URL to link to this post would end in &start=1799
The URL to the first post in the thread ends in zero even though it says #1, so it's URL would end in &start=0 but that isn't necessary to create a link to it.

Here is the link to share this post
viewtopic.php?t=10940&start=1799