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Original poster

To wonder if skirts are inherently misogynistic and objectify women...

124 replies

Oakenbeach · 04/12/2018 20:45

... and that women who continue to wear them are perpetuating the notion, albeit mostly subliminally, of a man’s entitlement to easy and unimpeded “access” to women.

OP posts:
KungFuPandaWorks · 04/12/2018 20:48

Eh?

Blanchedupetitpois · 04/12/2018 20:49

Why not take it one step further OP. Women’s bodies are actually inherently misogynistic because they give men ‘access’ to women. Down with women’s bodies and their terrible way of enabling predatory men.

Fluffyears · 04/12/2018 20:49

What the what now?

ShinyTooth · 04/12/2018 20:49

No

sunshineandthunder · 04/12/2018 20:50

What??? DH loves wearing his kilt. HTH.

mum11970 · 04/12/2018 20:51

Oh do shut up. What a load of old tripe, yet again!

HildaZelda · 04/12/2018 20:51

Here you go. Biscuit

AnneLovesGilbert · 04/12/2018 20:51

Wonder away. I love skirts and dresses, so comfy and easy to wear.

MotorcycleMayhem · 04/12/2018 20:52

Only if you are including kilts, dhotis, sarongs and Buddhist robes that men still wear as a sign of the same for them.....

Vicky1990 · 04/12/2018 20:52

You need to put this on the femanist site, you should get a positive response there as that is what you want.

GunpowderGelatine · 04/12/2018 20:53

Yep. It's all the fault of women and their temptress skirts that men won't stop beating, assaulting and raping us Hmm

AmIIntrouble · 04/12/2018 20:54

I always wear skirt because it's more comfy than trousers, with tights in winter. So YABU.

BoswellsLastStand · 04/12/2018 20:55

Not researched it but my guess is that skirts probably originated for convenience of urinating and defecating in days when you didn't have a flushable toilet?

Tackytriceratops · 04/12/2018 20:55

Actually my spd never fully went away so I now have to wear tunics and leggings much to my sadness as I love just jeans. Can't take the pain though. If it's warm enough it's s skirt/dress. Still looking for the perfect harem trousers or canvas trousers.

picklemebaubles · 04/12/2018 20:55

I think there would be an argument if women weren't allowed to wear trousers...

I did foil a very determined attempt to have sex with me when I was 16, as I was wearing layers and layers of clothes/tights, knickers to keep tights up, bodysuit (80s) etc. I didn't cooperate and he gave up.

jay55 · 04/12/2018 20:55

I find trousers uncomfortable and much prefer to wear a dress with leggings. I don't think this means I have internal misogyny.

I do however wish more dresses had pockets. And that we had more practical clothing options.

Aquamarine1029 · 04/12/2018 20:56

You need a hobby.

YesIDidNameChangeForThis · 04/12/2018 20:57

You are bonkers.

Elfinablender · 04/12/2018 20:58

Skirts don't hate women, broken men do.

FadedRed · 04/12/2018 20:58

I think there would be considerably more equality if all humans wore no clothes at all, ever.
Can’t see any problem with that.

PavlovianLunge · 04/12/2018 20:58

You need a hobby.

I think they’ve got one. Hmm

Limensoda · 04/12/2018 21:00

I don't think about men and what they might think or have access to when I wear my clothes Confused
I'm very irresponsible! Grin

Jamieson90 · 04/12/2018 21:16

A skirt is just a garment which in western society is mostly worn by Women. That, however, has not always been the case since it was only the late 1940s that it went out of fashion for boys to wear skirts/dresses. For most of history men and boys have been wearing variations of dresses/tunics/tights/hose etc, so longer than they have not.

The last 70-80 years have been a blip in fashion really. Speaking of fashion, anyone who has seen a bunch of boys playing a football match will know it's pretty fashionable nowadays to wear your socks so high they go up and under your shorts, or better yet they wear skins or leggings which really is just a re-hash of the fasion of boys wearing shorts and long stockings.

The colours used to be reversed too - blue for girls (to mimic the Virgin Mary) and pink for boys (a softer hue of the manly red). Interesting how things change isn't it? History is fascinating.

user1473878824 · 04/12/2018 21:18

u ok hun?

Flowerpot2005 · 04/12/2018 21:20

Definitely overthinking it all. Get a hobby!

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