BDSM & Alternative Lifestyle Personals
 | Blogs > Violently > Standing under a velvet sky... > "I don't like guys in skirts or dresses..." |
"I don't like guys in skirts or dresses..."
5/26/2008 11:37 pm Last Read: |
I've read that quite a few times in various profiles and I understand that people have their own personal preferences... but it is interesting to me how much we invest the importance of gender and even personality/character in what is really just a piece of material/garment. Does a piece of material/garment actually dictate the character of an individual to such an extent that the saying "clothing maketh a man" is to be taken literally? When you think about it, across time it has been quite fashionable for men to wear dresses and skirts without that same question/idea of gender associated with it - and it is only in the modern day that such fractional ideas are so definitive. It's quite a wonder to me just how much "power" we invest in a piece of clothing; so much so that a person can dread or fear being dressed up in a skirt or a dress for the potential of its symbolic implication rather than for what it actually is - someone wearing just another form of garment. Can people think around this eventually? Or is it a sort of doomed sheep mentality? 
|
||
5/27/2008 1:08 am |
and have you ever noticed these are the same people that vehemently *swear* they aren't homophobic...... One of the child care centers I used to work at one of the boys simply adored this pink knit dress {it had some Disney thing on it} but the few times I was in that room near go home time we had to fight the child to take it off because of the reaction his father once had and it was told to all of us to make sure it didn't happen again....but while the father was absent it was still okay....now there's some mixed signals to be sending a 3 year old.... Half of writing history is hiding the truth. - Malcom Reynolds
| ||
5/27/2008 4:52 pm |
It's all in the name, not the garment. I wouldn't be caught dead in a dress, but somebody yell TOGA! and I'm at the party wearing my toga, sandels and nothing else.
| ||
5/27/2008 4:57 pm |
Being open to anything I'd done the trying on my wifes clothes bit but while there was a bit of a 'doing something that everyone says is wrong' thrill I didn't particularly feel any more aroused than I would have done walking around the room naked and thinking sexual thoughts. When I was asked to cross dress for a partner because it turned them on I did it for them not expecting it to be that special to me but there was a thrill from knowing that I looked sexy to them that in turn charged me. Of course it could just be that all the really sexy clothes are made for women (although I do get turned on by a woman dressed in a mans suit). There was a certain thrill to be had from stroking the joining of stocking top and flesh before moving my hand further up.
| ||
5/28/2008 12:11 pm |
w00t?! They Scotophobic? or kiltophobic? gooeyfruitbat . . . I rather be cute than tuff (but it doesn't hurt...) 5 Batty Happinesses & "Fuk"
| ||
5/28/2008 1:56 pm |
I rekon I could get away with wearing a dress. I might even get one, but I doubt that I would feel like or be the 'guy in a dress' that people are looking to avoid. It is indeed interesting the power people associate with so many things. That's what makes it all such fun  Peace. Bod. ~O x Evil Religions <--- click here to vote please
| ||
11/19/2008 4:51 am |
Human beings love to be creative and express themselves; clothing is just another means of expression! In regards to wearing what is stereotypically seem as "female" or "male" garments makes me daydream about Greta Garbo in her tailored trouser suits, its okay for females to dress in trousers suits, equality & freedom of expression, (Nowadays it's bog standard no-one even batters an eye, its normal!) But for a guy, oh, there is no "equality"; it has to be favored with sex or sexual desires, and sadly worse still, some mental health problem! At the end of the day, its simply another form of expression, which pleases our senses, that isn't yet in the "norm
|
 |
 |
 |
| Become a member to comment on this blog | ||
 |
