To hate red trousers on men?

[abacucat]

This seems to be a status marker meaning I am very posh, so it doesn't matter if I look like a total nob.

Limited It is certainly a waste of time asking me to laugh at "funny" photographs of people who aren't "normal" just because they look a bit different from me.

Bow your "well other people do it on other threads" is irrelevant to this thread. Go and call it out where it happens. It is not a defence to the lazy, hackneyed, narrow - minded prejudice and stereotyping going on in this thread.

Stereotyping? You mean that it is a certain kind of man who tends to wear red trousers with shirt, tie and jacket?

Yes the assumption that a man dressed in that way must fit in with the scenarios you and limited are deciding must apply and the nasty little follow on that it entitles you and her to laugh and mock.

Marguerite The point is that this thread is nowhere close to the slagging off other people from different sections of society experience.

Still irrelevant Bow. 2 wrongs don't make a right. Call it out on the other threads when it happens.

There isn't or should not be a hierarchy of "funny" people who aren't "normal" and it's ok to mock and laugh at them just because.

Making fun of people’s outfits is puerile and unpleasant

All that need be said.

How do you know I don’t post on the other threads?

Having a bit of a joke about red trousers is one thing. They’re not exactly a fashion-must-have for many are they? But presenting this as an “issue” in order to position yourself on a moral high ground as some kind of “social justice warrior” is what makes people cringe. Such thinly veiled insecurity.

I don’t claim to take the moral high ground. I don’t claim to be a social justice warrior although I do care passionately about social justice. I do admit to being insecure. I am a product of my environment.

Nothing wrong with them. IMO people look ridiculous in skinny jeans or tracksuit or jogging bottoms - the latter the uniform of the car thief.

Sorry that these people have trashed your thread abacucat.

I don't know why it is so important for them to do it but I guess that the fact they do might you feel cheered that you annoying them

I have never owned a pair of red trousers and nor does / has anyone I know, but I just don’t like disingenuous threads that are so hypocritical it’s unbelievable to read.

Bowchicawowow
How do you know I don’t post on the other threads?

I didn't say you didn't. This thread isn't about what someone might have said on another thread- no matter how determined you are to make it about other threads.

As for Limited and the OP , this is a nasty thread and Limited's invitation to join in with her in laughing at all those "funny" people in the Harrods' photograph was its nadir.

Are you one of the people in the Harrods pictures Margeurite?

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Whybdisagreeing with an op ‘trashing’ their thread?

Sorry....why is disagreeing with the op ‘trashing’ their thread?

Bowchicawowow

Are you one of the people in the Harrods pictures Margeurite?

No. I'm still waiting for Limited to explain what is so funny about them. Does she often find women wearing headscarves or older people "funny"?

Oh my god come to the south west it’s all about the red or as we refer to it salmon coloured trousers as well an English mustard coloured #dfl I:e down from London

limited Its fine. Wish I could tag them on the very frequent threads laughing at poor people's style choices though. But wait no, they won't care about those.

And I know if someone started a thread saying that they hate "chavs" who wear jogging bottoms, there would be lots of people only too eager to agree and make comments like the one above saying they are all car thieves. But mocking the poor is fine. We should never laugh at those better off than ourselves though. Know your place.

Wrong abacucat. Perhaps some people find it distasteful and wrong to make assumptions and value judgements on people, any person, based on how they are dressed. The cliche about 2 wrongs not adding up to a right is applicable here.

Attitudes like yours are similar to those who damn women who are sexually assaulted whilst wearing body conscious clothing or miniskirts because they must obviously be sluts or that every woman wearing a hijab must be oppressively subservient. All of these sorts of comments are wrong and I make no apologies for pointing this out.

Red trousers on an adult says "if I could get away with it I'd wear a red nose and clown make up as well" no place for it outside of a circus.

Red trousers on men is a sign of being posh? Goodness me, I know a part time, seasonal parcel deliverer who has worn them for years!

I'm pretty sure I remember photos in the 70s of Sid Vicious wearing a pair....

Live and let live, I say. Don't like 'em? Don't wear 'em.

I think as a side note, there is too much disingenuousness around the 'Goodness! Social markers? I just wear any old thing and so does my husband!'

Social markers are definitely a thing - you may not know that, or recognise it as such, but they exist. Red/Salmon/Pink/Mustard trousers are absolutely a thing amongst a certain suburban/country set as well as in London among what would previously have been called Sloane types. Also a fashion thing for younger men -the two sets are completely different (although there may be some overlap on the social marker venn diagram, should such a thing exist...)

The vast majority of people, consciously or not, dress, speak and behave in certain ways so that they give out visual/audible signals that they belong to a certain group/subsection/class. Humans are tribal, we like to recognise 'one of our own' and clothes are a huge part of how this happens. Even people who say ' I don't take any notice of that kind of thing' are giving out the signal that 'they don't care' and as such are taking an implied high ground abover people who 'care'

It IS exhausting, of course, but denying that such tribalism exists is daft. By and large we ALL make judgements about people based on what they wear. Once you know you are doing it you can try and modify your triggers, but it's hard to go against a life of subconcious judgement. For what it's worth, I do judge middle class, midde aged red trouser wearing men because in my experience, they have not been the kind of people I have tons in common with. It's a shorthand we all use to some extent, whether it's accurate or not.