This very same discussion is started by me, on our Dutch forum,
http://www.rokvoormannen.nl/
one of possibly many more, of which I am unaware.
Distances to cover, critical mass, are the big problems. Having the time and then the finances to drive or ride hundreds of miles / Km's to meet other skirt wearers is just not done. Even in a small country as the Netherlands, we have go from the north to the south, 250 km's or meet each other somewhere in the middle, to meet a handfull of other wearers.
Getting into cotact with all willing openly wearing skirt wearers is the first thing to be done, there are enough out there to be seen. But how to get them all together. There should be only one skirt wearers forum for each country, so that all that seek info on the net come to the one site. As it is now, there may be dozens or more other sites, dividing the little mass that we have into smaller chunks. Only the people that know about events can participate.
As the Dutch forum I am on is only recently started, there are only a few members, 55 men who have listed themselves at one time, of which I think no more than ten at the very most are actually wearing skirts out in the open. And of that ... ten or maybe less, the most are not allowed to wear more than a few times per year by their loving wives. Some men wear a skirt openly when their wives are out, which requires precise timing, and is just mad man's work.
Although they do wear occasionally, once or a few times per year, that really doesn't count in my vision. But That is where and why I am so active in the defence of men wearing skirts, I think that in the most cases, it is the wife that ticks the hussie on his fingers, and she does not allow him to wear a skirt openly, often not even in his own home.
If we werre to crack that problem, there would be an enormous surge of men wearing skirts on the streets, as wearing a skirt in the open rarely leads to any problem at all.
So who would make up the members of that group?
Men who think about wearing, but don't? Or actual wearers? If it is possible to get groups of men together who live in short distances from each other, making it practical and not costly to meet on a regular basis, and the men have enough time apart from their jobs, family and clubs, sporting activities, then there are possibilitys. I must assume that there are many men who wear skirts and it is integrated in their life, the most I think. And those who make it a hobby, an actual happening of wearing a skirt are very few. Thus making it the more difficult to organise anything at all. As I have found out here. Although the listed members are very many more that on the relatively new dutch forum, they are spread out over practically the whole world, me being one of them, so unless some one gives me a ticket to a meetiong place in the US, then I won't be able to attend, even though it would be great to.
So, someons should therefore look at the addresses of members, if they have given them which they may not have, and without intruding on their privacy, send them an invitation to attend a virtual meeting, at first, and then see what the possibilities are for a real physical meeting.
What did I hear? "dream on", yes well some of us have to dream, so that something positive may come of it.
One thing is sure, the more "freelancers", men in skirts that are actually out there openly wearing, day in day out, the more chance we will have that others will join. With the biggest problem being the way the first person in men's lives, apart from himself, his wife, thinks and acts upon the revelance of his skirt wearing pretences.
Enough said,
Best regards,
Peter v.
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