Would you ok your son wearing a dress?

Ds doesn’t wear it for religious reasons. It’s not part of our religion AT ALL.

It was socially acceptable among the younger members of society in the 80s

My mum would always trot out the line is it a boy or a girl. I would always roll my eyes
But boys needed to get jobs and mortgages. Why should things like that be dependent on people showing how well they comply to arbitrary social norms?

Why is it ok to have a social norm on dress but not occupation?

A male Muslim wearing a shalwar kameez is certainly different to a male wearing a dress, just as a Catholic priest wearing a robe is different to wearing a dress because they are worn for religious practices.

No I wouldn't like it. For dressing up play fine. Otherwise no.

We come from a culture where a “dress” is the norm (ie dishdasha) so ds has worn one in the evening/weekend for most of his teens. I’m not sure why that would be “ok” but a European dress wouldn’t?

That's not a dress though. Same as bringing up kilts when discussing skirts. Nobody is interested in the sewing steps or similarity of garment we all know that socially wearing a kilt is different than a skirt, that what the clergy and church wear or arab men gowns are different to socially what we consider is a womens or girls dress. We all know the type and im not sure what the point is with dragging that comparison
.... the point remains that socially it just isnt the same. And it is socially that is the issue not that men cant physically wear garments which dont encase each leg separately. We already know they physically can.

I’m wearing a shalwar kameez, its a dress, I regularly wear them, men have been wearing them since the 13th century. I’m wearing a sweat material one right now, I’ll spare you a photo of the hairy pins. How is something thats been around since the 13th century not normal?

Well hes part hobbit (on my side) so he'd need a good shave first! But hes got the legs for it so why not.

Harry styles is an attention seeker though so I assume that's why he wears dresses. If it makes you happy to wear a dress as a man then fine, but no ones going to take you seriously are they, really? I'd be interested in the reason a man would want to wear a dress, if he isn't trans. What would he get out of it?

Yeh, men have never in recorded history worn dresses.

Other than throughout recorded history, obviously.

My Son wears mostly 'girls clothes'. His choice. He is really confident. No one bullies him. He doesn't give a shit what anyone thinks. I think he's marvellous.
His friends at school accept him for who he is. He's 9.

And honestly I don't give a flying fuck what anybody wears. As long as they are wearing a mask that covers their fucking nose, that is.

DS(13) and I were talking about his school uniform recently. He's cross because for some reason ties are mandatory for boys but optional for girls and he was (quite rightly) calling that out. We then got on to the subject of skirts and he felt that if girls have the option yo wear a skirt, then boys should too (after all, it might well be more comfortable in summer).

I asked him if he personally would choose to wear a skirt and said absolutely, definitely not - he would have the absolute piss ripped out of him. I then asked if it would be easier for a boy to identify as a trans girl and then wear a skirt - he said yes, that would be much more acceptable.

So there we have it - it is easier for a boy to reinvent himself entirely as a girl than it is for a boy to wear an gender non conforming item of clothing

So do you think more and more men should wear dresses? The world's already gone mad enough as it is.

I think allowing a male child out in a dress is the equivalent of throwing them to the wolves so to speak.

Some of these responses feel like we are moving backwards and losing everything that slack wearing women in the 70s fought for. And the 80s where men wore frills and make up and even skirts.

I would be embarrassed to see my son in a dress it would be a natural reaction.

I don't think you understand what the word natural means.

My son can wear what he wants.
Unfortunately, in this world we live in, I would try to dissuade him from leaving the house in a dress for his own safety; but not for any other reason. There are a lot of arseholes out there who would think it a sport to harass and attack a male wearing a skirt.

No I'm not embarrassed to see my daughter in trousers because that's normal attire however dresses for men are not normal. Why kid yourself? It's silly you must know that deep down.

But what's embarrassing about it?
I'd be embarrassed if my children were rude or bullying or disrespectful or something like that because they're poor traits in a person and I wouldn't want people thinking I'd brought them up like that.
But I don't see how a male child wearing a dress is equivalent to that.