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My response to cross dressing

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manpretty · 07/06/2026 16:17

I have seen on here some resentful remarks about crossdressing, not just from males as I would expect, but from females as well. To be fair men have had to accept women cross dressing for decades now and that is supposed to be totally OK seeing women living in jeans, leggings, shorts, sports trousers, joggers etc. Personally I grew up seeing women wearing skirts and dresses when they went out shopping, to a pub restaurant or cafe and just in ordinary everyday life. They looked great then and I always loved those clothes which is why I now prefer to dress in skirts and dresses myself. I love feeling the flowing materials (nothing sexual) and wearing the very kind of clothes that I wish today`s women would wear themselves. Give me a chiffon skirt or dress and a lovely lacey petticoat (waist slip or full slip) and I feel totally happy and more natural than ever.

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murasaki · 29/07/2026 14:41

manpretty · 29/07/2026 14:31

I am amazed how hostile some comments are on here. Some think I am having a go at how women dress now (must be feminists) I am not telling you how to dress but in the same degree, should you have the right to say I should not be allowed to wear what is classed as Female dress? You cant have it all ways. If you dont want a man to tell you how to dress, what gives you the right to say how he should be dressed? This is the 21st century and surely it gives everyone the right to dress how they want without prejudice. I came onto this site to bring this point across, all women who want to wear trousers, jeans, leggings, shorts etc, fine but do not condemn men if they want to wear skirts and dresses.

But that's our exact point. Where what you like, but don't claim you're the opposite sex while doing so.

RedToothBrush · 29/07/2026 14:34

manpretty · 29/07/2026 14:31

I am amazed how hostile some comments are on here. Some think I am having a go at how women dress now (must be feminists) I am not telling you how to dress but in the same degree, should you have the right to say I should not be allowed to wear what is classed as Female dress? You cant have it all ways. If you dont want a man to tell you how to dress, what gives you the right to say how he should be dressed? This is the 21st century and surely it gives everyone the right to dress how they want without prejudice. I came onto this site to bring this point across, all women who want to wear trousers, jeans, leggings, shorts etc, fine but do not condemn men if they want to wear skirts and dresses.

They can dress how they like.

They should just stick to the men's toilets and stay the fuck out of the women's.

Putting on a dress does not require a man to don fake tits anymore than putting on trousers requires a woman to shove socks down her crotch though.

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manpretty · 29/07/2026 14:31

I am amazed how hostile some comments are on here. Some think I am having a go at how women dress now (must be feminists) I am not telling you how to dress but in the same degree, should you have the right to say I should not be allowed to wear what is classed as Female dress? You cant have it all ways. If you dont want a man to tell you how to dress, what gives you the right to say how he should be dressed? This is the 21st century and surely it gives everyone the right to dress how they want without prejudice. I came onto this site to bring this point across, all women who want to wear trousers, jeans, leggings, shorts etc, fine but do not condemn men if they want to wear skirts and dresses.

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TinselAngel · 09/06/2026 11:31

So often one hand is out of sight

My response to cross dressing
lcakethereforeIam · 09/06/2026 10:32

I'd like to see a tra walk up to him and tell him, as a cross dresser, he's under the trans umbrella. Or perhaps not, as he's armed...if not handed. I wonder how he'd pull the trigger 🤔

Mmmnotsure · 09/06/2026 10:29

Boiledbeetle · 08/06/2026 19:01

Where's his other hand?

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You look at that photo and THAT's what you notice??

TheThirteenthFairy · 09/06/2026 10:13

Mmmnotsure · 07/06/2026 16:26

Not sure it's rage bait, tbh.

I suspect it is looking to have quite another outcome to hand.

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I see what you did there. To hand indeed.

Magpiecomplex · 08/06/2026 20:58

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 20:32

I'm not sure. I know where his armies are. Up his sleevies.

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😂

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 20:32

Boiledbeetle · 08/06/2026 19:01

Where's his other hand?

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I'm not sure. I know where his armies are. Up his sleevies.

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 20:30

Beaver hat iirc.

EmpressDomesticatednottamed · 08/06/2026 19:38

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 18:33

There's men wearing skirts, flouncy embroidered tops, hats with tassels, stockings, shoes with pom poms and looking pretty damn hot while doing it

What about the Quangle Wangle?
His hat was 102 feet wide with ribbons and bibbons on every side
And bells and buttons and loops and lace etc

Not to mention living on the Crumpetty tree.

DialSquare · 08/06/2026 19:36

TrainedByCats · 08/06/2026 19:34

You used to be able to get it in some of the major supermarkets but none of them stock it these days. I did a search and it looks like it may be stocked in a Budgens in the next town. I’ll have to give that a try when I’ve time to go look.

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I think Asda stock it. We used to get it from Waitrose and a butchers on Watling Street in the City but both have stopped doing it.

TrainedByCats · 08/06/2026 19:34

TheKeatingFive · 08/06/2026 19:26

Can you order it online somehow?

That might be a ridiculous suggestion, but I seem to remember my brother talking about it. He's a big fan/lives in England.

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You used to be able to get it in some of the major supermarkets but none of them stock it these days. I did a search and it looks like it may be stocked in a Budgens in the next town. I’ll have to give that a try when I’ve time to go look.

ErrolTheDragon · 08/06/2026 19:31

CassOle · 08/06/2026 14:39

Plus, trousers cut for the female figure are women's clothes, and a woman who wears them is not 'cross-dressing' despite the regressive ideas asserted by the OP.

Ha yes, I’m currently wearing short length M&S ‘Mom’ jeans 😂

TheKeatingFive · 08/06/2026 19:26

TrainedByCats · 08/06/2026 19:16

TheKeatingFive I’m now craving some proper (Clonakilty) black and white pudding, it seems to be almost impossible to find on the mainland these days.

Can you order it online somehow?

That might be a ridiculous suggestion, but I seem to remember my brother talking about it. He's a big fan/lives in England.

TrainedByCats · 08/06/2026 19:16

TheKeatingFive I’m now craving some proper (Clonakilty) black and white pudding, it seems to be almost impossible to find on the mainland these days.

AngleofRepose · 08/06/2026 19:08

Boiledbeetle · 08/06/2026 19:01

Where's his other hand?

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Maybe he lost it doing some war/fighting thing, y'know, while wearing the combat fatigue things?

AngleofRepose · 08/06/2026 19:06

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 18:33

There's men wearing skirts, flouncy embroidered tops, hats with tassels, stockings, shoes with pom poms and looking pretty damn hot while doing it

Do you think they think so? Or are they thinking, "FFS do I have to wear this again? What's wrong with combat fatigues?"

Boiledbeetle · 08/06/2026 19:01

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 18:33

There's men wearing skirts, flouncy embroidered tops, hats with tassels, stockings, shoes with pom poms and looking pretty damn hot while doing it

Where's his other hand?

lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2026 18:33

There's men wearing skirts, flouncy embroidered tops, hats with tassels, stockings, shoes with pom poms and looking pretty damn hot while doing it

My response to cross dressing
GoldenGate · 08/06/2026 17:43

manpretty needs a crash course in feminism to answer maybe some of his questions.

For the record there's already men wearing skirts just as men. Their business as long as they maintain modesty and stay in mens spaces. There have always been different views to men pushing social norms compared to women, even more suspicion. You could wonder why.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 08/06/2026 15:58

Am I right in thinking that @manpretty‘s rather bitter comment about ‘women cross dressing for years’, added to his paean of praise for how skirts and petticoats make him feel mean that he thinks HE must be allowed - nay celebrated for wearing skirts and frills, but women are most certainly NOT allowed to wear whatever they want? That’s how he comes across to me, anyway.

Wear whatever you want, @manpretty, but do try to lose the stupid, outdated, misogynistic guff about men’s and women’s clothing - oh, and stay out of the Ladies loos.

TheKeatingFive · 08/06/2026 15:49

Cailleach1 · 08/06/2026 13:44

I think it can be accepted as an indisputable, universal truth that Clonakilty ‘everything’ is lovely.

Edited to add: Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry Marie. Just saw the bit where you said you are a vegetarian. I saw the word Clonakilty and rushed to comment. Didn’t mean to be tone deaf.

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If anyone is ever in the Clonakilty area, I feel it's my mission in life to tell you that the SuperValu there is the best supermarket you'll ever set foot in.

Obviously it has all the Clonakilty produce but so, so, so much more.

DeanElderberry · 08/06/2026 15:41

I liked this 1945 postcard from the Netherlands that https://x.com/fakehistoryhunt
posted on X recently.

A woman in trousers and a man in a skirt enjoying summer in peacetime.

My response to cross dressing
TrainedByCats · 08/06/2026 14:45

When I’m cross I don’t tend to think about how I’m dressing