by dreyam on Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:24 pm
Alright, I’m going to reiterate something I wrote in a different thread. If you’ve read it before, my apologies, but I think it’s relevant here.
I suppose I am going to have a somewhat different take on this issue... I am a guy, but as you can probably tell from my pic at left, I do tend to favour a rather androgynous/feminine look… (although I tend to reserve dressing totally "in drag" typically for special occasions, going instead more for a kind of gender-blending look, generally.) I almost always wear makeup and a fair bit of silver jewellery, I polish my nails, wear fairly feminine clothes (though casual, jeans and tops mostly) and often wear heels. I’m lucky to live in a pretty progressive town, and family, neighbours and friends all seem to accept me, no problem; I've also never had any real issues being out and about (pun intended) around town.
Okay, to be honest, I suppose that may be partly because many people, giving me a casual once-over, may be making the assumption that I'm female; I am lucky enough to look rather androgynous anyway; I'm not that tall, I'm fairly skinny, I've got long curly hair, and I suppose have a pretty androgynous face.
But I guess the point I am wending my way towards here is that I believe that it really ought to be up to the individual how they dress, and what clothing choices they make. I think people should basically wear whatever they want to wear, and the only criterion that should be applied is whether it looks good or not. And yes, of course I realize that's a totally subjective criterion, but, as other posters have pointed out, that which "looks good" is very much an issue of what people are used to.
It's entirely possible that if more guys experimented with clothing and accessories not traditionally considered "masculine" in our culture (heels, skirts, nail polish, earrings and all of the other things discussed in this forum in various threads), those things would very likely become more and more acceptable through a kind of social pressure, and the trend would acquire a kind of momentum of its own (i.e. by becoming more visible, it would become more acceptable, and by becoming more acceptable it would become more visible, and so on.)
I would be willing to bet that there are a lot of guys out there who would welcome that level of clothing freedom if it was available. Just my 2 cents.
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or this
"I don't know anything about the gold standard, but I love little kittens!" I'll have to remember that...
