"female" models

[Shittyproblem]

I was looking at a skirt online recently, a household name, & was taken aback by the model.

No boobs, no waist, big feet, & a very dark shadow on the top lip.

I get fed up with their questionnaires about what sex/gender I "identify" with, but I really think this is going too far.

So what else is new? Not like models haven't been chosen since time immemorial for being built as closely as possible like adolescent men. The fact that the fashion business has now graduated to actual men... meh.

To me, who wears which clothes falls firmly under sex stereotypes rather than sex. If men want to model and wear skirts, good luck to them.

It might make me think the clothes won’t fit me but tbh no more than a 6 foot skinny woman modelling. I’d like to see a whole range of models used, and in fairness many brands now do this.

Same. I've stopped using brands that promote this.

If anything, I’d say that removing stereotypes of who should wear what is helpful in that gender shouldn’t be boiled down to what you look like and how you are allowed to dress. I think in some ways this oversimplification causes many of the issues we see today.

You can’t know the sex of the person in the image. Facial hair could be caused by many factors in someone born a girl (eg PCOS).

It's the pretence that men are women (and implicitly better women) that puts me off. It's next-level misogyny, as if the sort the fashion industry is steeped in wasn't enough.

Can you show us the pic or name the company, OP?

Yes, men can wear skirts.

Skirts created to fit the male body, fine. Skirts being marketed at women by a male model? How about by a 2 year old? How about we advertise cars with a 12 year old joyrider in the driving seat? Guinness and gin being enjoyed by kids at a play centre. No? Why not?

As for the can't tell the sex crap....I'm willing to bet cold hard cash that you can clock the sex of someone walking behind you at midnight when you're alone, at about 100m.

People can wear whatever they like and don’t need to follow fashion or convention. That’s up to them.
However, a man being used to model a garment tailored for, and aimed and marketed at women, in a retailer’s women’s section, then that's woke signalling at best, erasure of women in their space at worst.

If some bikini bottoms can fit a man's junk in them, then they're going to be too baggy for a woman. Biology matters.

Women can recognise a male pretty instantaneously, even at a distance. It is an evolutionary survival mechanism.

We don't need that "differentiate"
I am a woman.

So what else is new? Not like models haven't been chosen since time immemorial for being built as closely as possible like adolescent men. The fact that the fashion business has now graduated to actual men... meh.

The modern feminist: shaming women's bodies to make some point about men or something.

Any thoughts on the thread you have started, @Shittyproblem?