Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!aero-c!nadel From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Clothing Message-ID: <12057@uwm.edu> Date: 10 May 91 23:25:06 GMT References: <1991Apr27.120803.29765@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <14798@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@uwm.edu Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Lines: 30 Approved: nadel@aerospace.aero.org Status: R Originator: nadel@aerospace.aero.org In article <14798@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> lisa ann farmer writes: >The reason I wear skirts is because they are comfortable. I also thik >that men should be able to wear skirts. When I go on an interview I >will wear clothes that I don't normally wear(don't we all). One >requirement of the skirts I wear though is that I be able to ride my >bike in them! Good God! That short?! >:) A skirt might not be a bad idea, but no it's NOT comfortable. It makes you feel like your pants have fallen off and you're constantly looking down to see if they're still on only to find that you're not wearing pants, but are wearing a skirt! Besides you wouldn't want to see me in a short skirt. I work out. I may turn too many heads. I'm shy. I blush easily. You'll faint. >Why would what someone wore affect your perception of feminism? Clothing is dictated by culture. Skirts come from the Dark Age*, (like business suits). The Dark Age is when all women were merely sex-slaves of men to be kept in line with the whip and kept in the kitchen. That's why they wore skirts... The skirt means this. It should be abhorred at all costs. Burn them! Arrr!! ------------------------------------------------------------ * The Dark Age is the era of pre-civilized society that ended in 1964 when humans first became conscious and lucid, before which everyone was either a dogmatic ideologue, a religious fanatic blinded by their local cult or a slave.