Do you think men should be allowed to wear skirts?

[ciarafoley97]

This was brought up by an article I read in the DailyMail (www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8847579/Straight-married-father-three-reveals-hes-worn-skirts-high-heels-day-four-years.html)

Some would say the fact that people think it's ridiculous for men to wear feminine clothing but the reverse isn't true is because the patriarchy sees women as being inferior to men. Therefore in a true gender egalitarian society, clothes would have no gender.

What about dating prospects? Would you date a man who wore skirts/high heels?

They should be able to wear whatever the fuck they want tbh. Same with women.

It does seem quite taboo for a guy to wear feminine clothes, but hopefully with this explosion in 'non binary' and such, this will help a little. What would help much more though, would be for the many 'non binary' people to wear what they want, without claiming it was because they were 'non binary'..normalising it in general instead of making out you must be somethig other than a man if you like to wear dresses or whatever.

This wouldn't even enter my radar, for dating. Infact before I was married, many of the male partners I had were very much on the feminine side. I have a huge thing for guys in eyeliner/makeup, and always have, so maybe I actively looked for guys like that! Not sure.

@BlackForestCake

That said, if men are to wear skirts they'd better clamp those legs together

A hazard at Scottish weddings is large numbers of men in kilts who have not had the female socialisation of learning to sit with their knees together

Eh? Kilt material is so heavy if you sit with legs apart the material will dip down between knees to cover anything. I have never noticed a Sharon Stone type incident at any kilted event I've been at.

Also yeah it is rare, and some men might take the piss. However, women wearing trousers was rare at one stage, but they persisted and now its not even a 'thing' at all, just the usual. It might be a bit..painful short term, but in the long run it would benefit them.

I think men should wear skirts. Think of the freedom especially in summer with the breeze blowing around their bits. It would be much more comfortable and better for testicular health.

Guys wearing eyeliner has been a thing forever

They can trip around in stiletto shoes, crinolines or corsets for all I care. They're men wearing clothing that society determined was for women and is bloody ridiculous on any person.

@PastMyBestBeforeDate

They can trip around in stiletto shoes, crinolines or corsets for all I care. They're men wearing clothing that society determined was for women and is bloody ridiculous on any person.

I actually think it might help us all to reach a mutual acceptance that high heels are an effing nightmare

Hecates any osteopath would surely agree. Half inch heels for all!

Ner'er stiletto has crossed our threshold since March PastMy and I can't imagine it happening much post Covid. Turns out when you don't have to dress for other people you're less likely to go for options that cause excruciating pain.

March? The last time I wore a stiletto was for a job interview in 2010 and I knew how far I needed to walk in them!

*Should flog them on ebay.

Who knows how men think? I wish they'd think a little harder about flexing though and less about heels.

I'm not a huge fan of people wearing their fetishes on the outside. People who want to show off genital or nipple piercings, people wearing leather/furry/gimp stuff outside, people wanting other people to spectate their sexual predilections without consent.

A nice kilt or djellaba or sarong, is great. Prince or Brian Molko playing with gender norms is fab.

Wanting me to be a participant in their sexual desires without consent, is not fab

What do you think about the topic you bought up ciarafoley97

Men wear lavalava all the time here, in NZ, home of the manly man rugby player...
You want to tell a 6'6" islander that he can't wear a "skirt", be my guest!

Men don't really have the legs for shirts and dresses though tbh neither do I.

If a man does get verbally abused or even assaulted for wearing clothes that are seen as traditionally for women you can bet it’s not women doing it.

If men could wear heels and feminine skirts (as opposed to kilts or other similar traditional male clothing) without anyone turning a hair then do you think they would actually want to? Men don't wear heels because they look good on them or because they are comfortable. They wear them in order to transgress a boundary.

Same with wearing women's underwear - if there was a demand for scratchy lacy skimpy pants for men then they would be designed with the male shape in mind. But there isn't because men don't want lace - they want women's underwear which they are not 'supposed' to wear.

I live in Scotland. Kilts are really not anything to make a song and dance about. Men wear them all the time; nobody cares. And of course many men wear Salwar kameez, too. Never seen anyone raise an eyebrow at that, either.

Lots of you have already said it - there are many kinds of skirts men already wear. It's not a big deal.
DH wears a sarong on holiday, kilts have been around forever. Last seen in the wild by me in Sweden of all places. Guy camping had this brilliant utility kilt.
Men wearing fetished clothing in public, I'm less keen to see or be an unconsenting part of.

If you go folk dancing in England you will see men wearing skirts when they want to. It's no big deal and sometimes they look stylish (unusual for any folk dancer really). I'm thinking of the young man from Sheffield area wearing a fitted short grey jacket and matching swishy chiffon skirt.

Sometimes when I read these discussions I feel like no-one else sees men wearing skirts in a normal way.

This individual is very clearly AGP.

It's difficult to describe how it feels as a trans widow, having been gaslit along similar lines to have women queuing up to be gaslit by saying that this man is just wearing what he wants and they're just clothes.

I wonder what his wife and children really think?

On the other hand, My last partner (not the trans one) was a fan of wearing (men's) sarongs around the house because he found them comfortable. They were "skirts" that weren't remotely girly. There's nothing wrong with that because it doesn't fetishise womanhood.

Allowed yes. As a man, would I personally wear one, no.