No equality until men can wear dresses

alephnul · 2011-03-07T16:07:11+00:00

The important part of this article is being missed under the 'men wear dresses' headline. That men are disposable commodities and when faced with inequalities or hardship are offered the advice of 'manning up' rather than help.

Also kilts FTW. When ever I want to pick up women I always wear a kilt... nothing says alpha male like one. grrrrrr

ShakeyBobWillis · 2011-03-07T20:16:38+00:00

People, a kilt is a skirt, not a dress.

Mookmookmook · 2011-03-07T17:39:06+00:00

Thanks for submitting an interesting article. It definitely is a viewpoint worth discussing.

A lot of people equate being male and being "manly" as some sort of paradigm to which you must aspire, as long as it fits their doctrine. Should a man not be free to wear what he wishes? Should he be derided by his fellow men that insist he is less manly for doing so?

revrurik · 2011-03-07T18:44:07+00:00

I would like to see what a dress that was actually designed for or by men would look like. More durable cloth and lots more pockets probably.

ExpendableOne · 2011-03-07T15:36:11+00:00

Couldn't they have found a better picture than that to support this argument? I mean, I agree that men should be able to wear whatever they want(without fear of violence or abuse) but, really, couldn't they have found some dresses that match the male physiology better(like kilts, for example)? Dresses that are designed and tailored for the female body are never going to look right on men; just like the vast majority of clothing designed and tailored for men wouldn't look right on women.

os2mac · 2011-03-07T15:13:11+00:00

ummmm We already do that

thetrollking · 2011-03-07T22:28:04+00:00

who is really stopping men from wearing dresses? Guys cross dress all the time and I could see the argument for changing culture but cultures can only change from within and any external source breeds totalitarianism. Often times so does the internal source. Guys have the right to wear a dress and other guys have the right to mock them for it. I guess if the argument is about a employer or government official using it against them then that is one thing but I don't want to wear a dress and I don't see the benefit of inverting male and female social customs.

Go to the middle east and you will see guys wearing dresses and shooting at american soldiers with ak variants....they are called galibeas. I doubt most people would call them less of a man just like most wouldn't fuck with a biker with long hair.

2011-03-07T23:21:08+00:00

totally agree

but its closer to the bottom of the list of priorities for me

disposable_human · 2011-03-08T04:10:37+00:00

I think the problem with gender roles isn't that men aren't allowed to have feminine traits if they want them; it's that they're not allowed to have masculine traits

Ma99ie · 2011-03-07T20:42:48+00:00

I wear dresses all the time.

Kaluthir · 2011-03-07T19:37:01+00:00

This is fucking stupid. Dresses aren't designed for men, just like a suit isn't designed for women. Sure, there are exceptions to the rule (kilts and pantsuits), but they prove the rule. A woman would look stupid in this just like a man would look stupid in this.

And for the record, I mock small people who wear XXL shirts, fat women wearing short skirts, and anyone else who wears shit that looks retarded, too. This is not a gender issue.

ForMensRights · 2011-03-07T22:50:03+00:00

i gotta say, for being all about mens rights, you guys hate on potential "gay" things a lot.

mens rights ** fuck yeah **

Mikul · 2011-03-07T17:35:43+00:00

The article is technically correct, but the reason men don't complain about some of these issues is because we'd rather find solutions to things ourselves instead of expecting the world to dance to our tune. It's one of our main strengths, really. It's why men tend to be successful. We don't complain about things not being given to us and do what we can to achieve our goals in spite of what lies in our way.

Child custody is a big issue for men. Anyone that has had to deal with it complains about how terrible it is: both emotionally and economically, but the article belittles the big issues by stuffing a random guy in a dress.

rogersmith25 · 2011-03-07T14:49:22+00:00

The right to wear a dress is not a right I have any interest in.

I was under the impression that Men's Rights was fighting for legal equality, not the right to cross-dress. Sounds like more of an LGBT issue to me.

ss_camaro · 2011-03-07T17:26:28+00:00

yup unmanned s/he thing.

2011-04-30T05:15:32+00:00

This is lgbt co-opting mens rights.

Mookmookmook · 2011-03-07T16:02:07+00:00

Men can wear dresses if they want. The problem is that society is created a bunch of estrogen filled girly men who want to.

Title	No equality until men can wear dresses
Author	askeetikko
Upvotes	29
Comments	63
Date	March 7, 2011 2:09 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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