Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!ucivax!gateway From: g-patena%steer@ucselx.sdsu.EDU ("Kevin M. Savetz Esq.") Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Clothing Message-ID: <1991May24.201511.5509@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Date: 28 May 91 23:44:52 GMT References: <14798@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <12057@uwm.edu> <1991May14.192001.20125@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: waffle@euclid.humboldt.EDU Organization: National Waffle Institute Lines: 47 Approved: tittle@ics.uci.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: zola.ics.uci.edu In article <1991May14.192001.20125@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> melanie@director.beckman.uiuc.edu (Melanie Anderson) writes: >markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: >>In article <14798@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> lisa ann farmer writes: >>>The reason I wear skirts is because they are comfortable. I also think >>>that men should be able to wear skirts. [Stuff deleted...] Absolutely. I'm male, and I have and do occasionally wear a skirt. Most people seem to take it in stride or have a positive attitide toward it. It's rare for a male to be seen wearing a skirt, and I've gotten interesting glances from people! ;-) Basically, I think that a lot of the breaking-down between males and females is at the inter-personal level -- when we set minute restrictions as to "this is what women do" / "this is what men do" it carries over and can lead to resentment. I try to break that down as best I can by showing that it is not wrong for a guy to wear a skirt. Make people question their soceitially- ingrained ideas of what is masculine and what is feminine. >>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! This is subjective, eh? Wearing a skirt feels wonderful, 'specially after years and years of being confined to icky pants. Clothes are self-expression, and I don't best express myself my wearing jeans day after day. Although that is what i am _expected_ to do. >men just have no clue as to what they're missing. big full, comfy baggy >cotton skirts are just the greatest in the summer. much more comfy than >jeans. =-) I gave a speech for a class about this. Of course, I wore a skirt while doing it. People were very positive about it. However, I doubt soceity as a whole would be as open.. I live in a small college town -- a place where people are generally very open to new ideas and willing to listen to others. Any commenmts on any of this? _____________________________________________________________ KEVIN M. SAVETZ Bitnet: waffle@euclid.humboldt.edu