My Mother always says that in this day and age, it seems as if boys want to be girls. She would say that they want to dress like us, wear the same colors we do, etc.. Mind you, she is not talking about homosexuals. Just, men who dress and conduct themselves like in what is deemed to be feminine mannerisms. You know the ones. The man who never wants to work but expects his girlfriend to work and care for him. The man who never wants to pay for a date and somehow expects for the woman to constantly pay for them. The whiny man who feels he should not have to work hard for anything as a man, but it should be giving to him. Or the woman who coddles her son so much that when he becomes a man, he is unable to care for himself and stand on his own because he was never taught or made to. I would of course defend my generations right to dare to be different and say “Oh mom, what are you talking about? That is not true, blah, blah”.
Well, it is getting more and more difficult for me to disagree with my mom when I see images like the ones below in the media. They are being forced into our subconscious so that we feel that this kind of mess is okay. I remember reading about guys in Japan wearing skirts but I hoped it would not cross over here. I am all for fashion and being open and on the leading edge but this looks and seems foolish. I for one would rather not see any man’s hairy legs strolling around downtown L.A. in a sexy skirt. Call me closed minded, but no men should wear skirts. Genders should not mesh in this way. Clothes may not define your gender but they are an expression of oneself. What is a man trying to say by wearing a skirt? Or is it simply to push the envelope? I could care less how long Scottish man have been wearing kilts or what happen during B.C. and whatever other excuse one can come up with to defend this. That was their time period not ours. In 2010 this is just another clever way to blend the gender lines disguised as a new wave of fashion. Let us please send a special thank you to H And M for designing these little numbers. Also, let us thank them for assisting in squeezing every last drip of manhood from this generation of males. For the ladies who are going to come at my head for for being sexist I want to ask you this and I want you to answer honestly: How would you feel if the man you were dating came over dressed in one of these sexy skirts, ashy knees and all?
Guys, would you invest your dollars in this fashion sense? Ladies, what would you say if your date arrived to pick you up, looking like this? I cannot be the only one who would send him home….
“No.” “Stop.” “Not interested.” “No thank you.” These and other variations should be part of your vocabulary… 
Change. President Barack Obama chanted that we needed “a change we can believe in” and Sam Cooke sang… 
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John
3 months ago
Christine, why is it than so common ans accepted that men and women are wearing jeans, why is it that women are allowed to wear their husbands or fathers shirts and socks? Is that only due to double morality or lack of biblical knowledge or even better historical knowledge? Please note that in approx. 1880 psychiatrist Binet in Nice, France indicated that persons wearing apparel of the other gender were mentally ill. At that time it was still common in rural areas that men would wear a skirt like garment and woudl even have a special one for attending church! Even as psychiatrist Mr Binet was an entrepeneur and thus the results of his scientific studies might be influenced by the need in the society and thus the lining of his pockets required. Nowadays such is called marketing.
Trousers are only fashionable for women since the laste 50′s!
Previously I mentioned already the historical background of the biblical text to which you refer (deutrimonium 22:5 if I’m not mistaken).
Dictating what can and what can’t be worn is putting it midly a form of denying someone his own personallity. Such might be acceptable in N-Korea, but not in a democratic society.
John
3 months ago
Christine, what are the specific garments for each gender?
strikemaster
3 months ago
Christine, what is foolish in men’s skirts? Men wore skirted garment through the millenias. In some parts of the world still wear skirts called kilts, sarongs, lava-lavas, dhotis. It have nothing common with being girly. Men in westernized societes were forced to wear only trousers for last 200, 300 years. Do You think it’s long? Meantime skirts became garment for ladies only. Women have stolen our skirts! Look at the historical costumes. Dresses were unisex, skirts only for men until med 19th century. Fact is, trousers aren’t comfortable for men. Also increases risk of testicular and prostate diseases mainly by causing our sexual organs overheat especially in summer, during long-term sitting etc. It’s time to stop the trouser tyranny! And at last, why women are allowed to wear both male and female (in modern terminology) clothes when men can’t wear garment that fits our anatomy much better? Are men the second-class citizens?
John
3 months ago
Christine, where are you?
You freferred to the Bible. Please ote that the first piece of clothing was a figleave both for Eve and for Adam.
You based your opinion on Deuterimony 22:5 where it is indicated that people will not wear apparel of the other gender. If you whant to apply Deuteromony 22:5 than you should apply also 22:11(no mixed textiles) and 22:21 where a woman shall be stoned if she was not a virgin prior to marriage or when she commits aldultery, she shall be stoned (texts we know more in relation to the Koran).
Thus only referring to those parts which suit you is a no-no.
Furthermore in the time during which the Bible was written, skirts and robes were daily wear for men…
David
3 months ago
Christine, you obviously have a mental illness, linking skirts with the “death of masculinity.” First of all, nowhere in deuteronomy does it mention SPECIFICALLY that men shall not wear skirts, and women shall not wear pants! Therefore, men and women wearing each other’s clothes is NOT a sin! Second, religious fanatics like yourself believe that if men wear skirts, it will be the end of the world. What BS!! Society can still survive with the gender of clothing abolished! You want to talk about the end of humanity — look at Iran’s attempt to acquire nuclear weapons and use them on Israel and America!! You are sick and need help!!
John
2 months ago
David, I do think that everybody is entiteld to an opinion. Also I do think that if one poses an opinion one does have to provide support for ones opinion. Using wording like you used is as much discriminating as the opinion without foundation. What people citing the bible to support their opinion forget is that Deuteromony 22:5 is in contradiction with Genesis 3: 21 where Adam and Eve received coates of skin as clothing, hence similar apparel. And that is how one silences someone who cites without knowing the full text. And as coats are unbifurcated garments, the argument of Christine becomes a non argument.
But more interesting is the silence of LJ Knight as her arguments are based on old fashion prejudice and concerns fashion. Some live for being fashionable and trendy, others don’t care. Just a matter of how open minded is someone and into what extent are they willing to respect the individuality of others or are they willing to think outside the box. I just don’t like the baggy fashion which is surrounding us at present. It is cheap to see. Colours used during the flower power era are returning, so will we be putting a flower in our hair soon?
Onlooking Scot
1 month ago
Unless satiric, your comments are pathetic and stupid and conservative and redneck, betraying your absolute lack of knowledge of other cultures. Scottish soldiers in kilts have been amongst the most feared in history; Scotland is a warrior nation, unlike America. Your ramblings are pathetic and spurious and curious. What would you consider masculine? Jeans? In America ‘men’ never seem to grow up, and wear juvenile teeshirts and shorts and baseball caps. Juvenile fashion for a juvenile nation.
I can’t even be bothered wasting any more words on your crap.
Charles
1 month ago
This woman is of the female faction who (correctly) views social prohibitions against men in skirts as leaving these women with POWER over men—”We can wear skirts while you can’t; we can wear anything but you’re restricted.” She reminds me of the rabid man hating psychologist Susan B. Kaiser in her book “The Social Psychology of Clothing.” Social tyranny was wielded in medieval times by the Roman Catholic Holy Office and by the Protestant witch hunts in Salem, and under Matthew Hopkins, witch finder general, in England. Millions were tortured and murdered for moral disagreement! We don’t tolerate religious persecution today, but what DO we tolerate? MENTAL HEALTH PROPAGANDA—”cross dressing only applies to males?” Why? Because society abandoned its wish to stop women from having choices! This terminology is strategy, not fact! All are born naked, and the skirted Roman centurion (a man’s man—a trained killer, a professional soldier) was said by Christ to have had the greatest faith of all—Luke 7. Don’t you think Christ knew what Deut 22:5 meant? Far more likely it was in part a reference to men wearing bras—a female garment by anatomy. Bras were known in Greco-Roman times as art and archaeology established. Skirts are as sex neutral as water!
Matthew
1 month ago
Well, if men can’t have have men’s skirts or wear kilts, then you women can’t wear pants! How’s that? How would you like to go back 100 years and be restricted to wearing only dresses?
Get with the program lady, in your own words you said times have changed, Yes, and times are changing again.
Ladies had to force the change about 100 years ago so they could wear pants, so now it’s men’s turn to force the change, and like men not being able to stop women wearing pants, you can’t stop men forcing the change so they can wear skirts. It’s coming, and sooner than you think!
Mike
1 month ago
I don’t see a problem with men wearing skirts. To each his own i say. I think that the fashion changes are due to the boring everyday styles men wear. There is nothing wrong with the opinion you state in your article but if it was something you saw in your everyday life from when you was a child it wouldn’t be any different then seeing a man walk down the street in a three piece suit with penny loafers. We are brought up in a society where there is a “norm” and men should not wear certain things. But we also live in “the land of the free”, and the means free to express ourselves in any way we would like. If we want to have the society “norms” of old then every woman should be June Clever and wear aprons and skirts and my dinner should be on the table by the time i get home from work.
I’m just saying.
Joe
1 month ago
Its just another example of the faction of women who live in the past. YOu have to ask yourself why you think what you think. and if you are part of the generation who thinks that the 1960′s are still happening then you somehow have this contorted view of the world that our author has here. The thing about feminism is that for so many of these people it means equality when it benefits them and an attitude of indifference when it benefits someone else in this case men. Its indicitive of the larger problem that I personally think society faces which is that; if you tell someone that they are a certain sterotype because of some benign thing they do such as how they dress then eventually they become the sterotype that you have laid out for them. So in this case, men to this group of women have become ‘those people who cant wear skirts’ or have other fashion choices as they do. Which in reality shows the insecurity of the women who demand that men wear certain things to reaffirm what ‘men should be’. Nevermind that you posses every other quality of who and what a man really is, acting with integrity, showing respect, upholding what is right, supporting you family etc.
Then after telling these men their whole lives to hate what is feminine in order to be a man they can’t figure out why there is animosity toward women from some (not all) men who resent being told who they are supposed to be when they were already secure in who they are all along.
You reap what you sow!
Pete
4 weeks ago
Only yesterday I was seated at a garden table with friends, and some newly made aquaintances who didn’t know me from Adam, and as I was wearing a skirt, it was obvious that in the course of conversation the subject came up, out of nothing but polite interest. I commented that I sometimes wear skirts because I find them very comfortable. No-one creased up laughing, criticised the choice, or inferred I was any less masculine for wearing skirts. In fact it was 100% agreed that everyone should be allowed to be happy with what they choose. I live in the UK (thankfully) where we are perhaps far less over-reactionary to the subject.
Not wishing to be associated with a man in a skirt is fine – that’s your choice – but don’t lay it down as having to be everyone else’s just because you can’t handle change. On the other side of the coin I also see women who I would not choose to be seen with, but for more sociably accepted reasons – namely those dressed like sluts with legs going up to their armpits gagging for a good time, big boy – but I’m sure someone somewhere loves them. It’s none of my business, as my choice of clothing is most definitely none of yours, or anyone else’s.
I’m not religious because I believe that, apart from the tragedy of natural disasters, religions have caused most of the miseries in this world which didn’t exist before. A religious war of such a petty size over men wearing skirts is just typical of know-it-alls who have nothing better to do than grab handfuls of words representing (we are required to believe) an age that preceded the unforeseen and almost universal female adoption of trousers by 2000 years. They got that wrong, right?
It pains and irritates me that an item of clothing, which must be the most basic form of convenient cover for any of us, male or female, should be still considered, in 2010, in such a blatantly selfish and childish way to be of sole benefit to the female. If I knew where you lived I’d be tempted to come round with a large trash bag and rifle through your own wardrobe, removing all forms of masculine trouser you have personally considered it permissible to own and wear, whilst your all important bible is shut safely away in a closet somewhere to assist your guilty conscience (who ARE you trying to kid?) and twenty-first century fashionable female exceptions to the rule. What a joke!
The atrocities perpetrated by H & M were probably due to so called designers thinking they know what men in my road want, here in Dumbsville, and that we are all male models with a dress sense problem. How ridiculous. I wouldn’t be seen dead in any of them and their quick removal was a sensible and humane cause of action.
I wear very down to earth knee length skirts, mainly of the pocketed cargo type (as I don’t want to be carrying a handbag and apparently upset anyone any further). I find they are perfectly sensible, perfectly respectable, perfectly masculine if I leave off the lippy and heels (contrary to popular belief we’re not all into female impersonation), and perfectly acceptable – except by you of course.
Ah, well, dear lady, at least we enjoy life’s choices. Condemn them if you wish but I don’t think many people will be bothering to take much notice in the UK. I seem to think most of us have moved on a bit you see.
meanne
3 weeks ago
men used skirts before women, so it´s not a lady-fashion. i thinks it´s gorgeous men using skirts
Phoenix
3 weeks ago
I can’t believe all the ignorant, close minded individuals I have seen in this place. Kudos for those that have commented something positive in regards to this matter but to all those who have commented in a stupid way you all deserve to go back to your caves…really.
What is so wrong in a man wearing a skirt? Can someone answer me without bringing gender or sexuality up? This woman and her mother are obviously narrow minded and have no idea of what life is and what nature is. A man is just a human being with the capability of impregnating a female while a female is just a human with the capability of carrying a baby. The only thing that separates us is genitalia and hormones. Did nature introduce gender roles? What is a man and what is a woman?
A man is not a role, as well as a woman is not a role either. I am a woman, I enjoy wearing pants, I actually despise dresses, hate skirts and high heels and does that make me male? No, I still have my genitalia. I still have breast. They do not disappear just because I don’t like to wear cute attires. This applies for a man too; they do not loose their testicles!
This is the problem with this area, and I mean the Americas, from Canada down to Tierra de Fuego and covering the Caribbeans, you are all afraid of change. This is new for your kind, for the kind of people with no brains or unused ones. If you don’t like something you demonize it. Why the comparison with a gay man? This is insulting, not for hets but for Gays, using their sexual preference in a derogatory way to point lack of “masculinity” and that proves that those that said anything against those that defended this are dumb and/or lower education. Anyways gay men don’t wear skirts on a regular basis, hell, there are gay men that have never worn a damned skirt in their lives! This insecurity of what people will think of you and that is exactly what this movement is about; to raise awareness and break a taboo. These roles and taboos are detrimental, to any society. People like your lot are the ones who will make it impossible for society to move forward and that is pathetic. Like I said before it has nothing to do with sexual preference it has to do with breaking a role….a role that was implemented by some douche/douchette that had nothing to do….very much like the ass wipe who created etiquette.
A man should dress the way they feel like too. I personally love this fashion statement. I think it’s awesome, open minded and innovative (in some way, since the more cultured folks here know that dresses and skirts were worn in earlier centuries). For all those who wear skirts and have defended this statement congrats, you are all my heroes
I leave with the 64,000 dollar questions, and I will ask once more; what is a woman? What is a man? What is so wrong in a man wearing a skirt? And again, answer this without thinking about geneder or secual preference….this will put your brains to work for a change, lol!!
Phoenix
3 weeks ago
Oh and regards to the question at the end of your close minded rant “How would you feel if the man you were dating came over dressed in one of these sexy skirts, ashy knees and all?” let me answer; I wouldn’t mind. Of course if he a bad person let me tell you pants or skirt he is out of my life and that is why clothes has nothing to do with an individual; it’s their interior and their personality that matters….you are just shallow. Looks and fashion are not everything…in the long run the man of your dreams could be in a skirt and you wouldn’t careless cause he is wearing it….and there is not logic in that way of thinking. It just doesn’t make sense. Clothing does not make the person! I hope you get it someday….well I think you wont….you don’t sound like that type of person.
John
2 weeks ago
@Phoenix: for some it is a reason to file for divorce. As some one indicated somewhere else, most probably the love was just a layer of varnish, whilst using doubble standard at the same time.
Charles
6 days ago
In medieval times people came to see public executions and victims were horrifically killed in the most awful torments conceivable. The author of this manhating rant would not have been among the spectators. She would have been an executioner. “Only females are permitted human expression” is her BOTULIZED viewpoint. She wants the tropical fish look for her sex alone and wants men to look like undertakers—robots who exist to fund selfish females as herself. Any women who wants ME has to give ME a diamond engagement ring! Ha f*****g haw. Tomorrow I get to wear my Greek soldier PETTICOAT and she can’t STOP me from wearing it!