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western women rights (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by mathemachristian@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

inspired by lemmitors at https://lemmy.ml/post/49343381
any guy in it just for women to wear skimpier clothing should probably be investigated.

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[-] bryophile@lemmy.zip 40 points 4 days ago

Everyone believes they're choosing freely, especially when they're choosing what their culture taught them to want.

[-] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 22 points 4 days ago

am i freely choosing to wear pants or just indoctrinated by the society i was raised in? if i moved somewhere they donald duck it would i assimilate or continue to wear pants?

i know suit guys who will dress up even if they're not leaving the house and that's real weird to me but it's not muddied by being imposed on an axis of oppression or whatever.

[-] Azzu@leminal.space 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Clothing (pants) is very much not natural and indeed only enforced by society. If one knows about various indigenous people around the world, one knows pants are not universal.

I actually, in this heat, would love not to have to wear pants or anything really. I'm naked at home all the time. However, if I went outside it'd be indecent.

[-] ILikeToMeow@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

That applies to literally everyone and doesn't justify anything, men are no less or more immune, and the choice should be the one who is or would be wearing or not wearing a given piece of clothing on whether they do or don't wear it. Neither men nor the state should be taking the agency for women to decide for themselves what to or to not wear.

At best this makes your comment unrelated, random, and pointless, as it says nothing. But we both know you are actually providing cover for the misogynist view that women shouldn't be able to decide for themselves. It's not exactly subtle, not even slightly, in fact it is infuriating. So please, look deep inside yourself, reflect, and STOP!

[-] bryophile@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Yes you're absolutely right, anyone of any gender should be able to wear or not wear what they want.

My point was more philosophical. It is indeed random and pointless, but I find it interesting to think of things like this. You may not find this interesting or read something misogynist into this, which was definitely far from what I meant so I'm sorry for offending you.

[-] ILikeToMeow@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Please consider the context and read the room in the future, (or in this case the OP picture for which the thread is about) the time and place of such commentary also changes it's apparent character. Water under the bridge. 🙃

[-] bryophile@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago

The room was empty when I commented. Anything can be read in bad character when you try hard enough.

[-] gumball4933@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

They are not deciding for themselves. That’s the point. Although banning is also not the solution either, I agree.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I generally wear what's most comfortable for me. Sometimes I'll "dress up" for stuff where it's socially still "required" like job interviews or weddings, but even that is rare for me.

[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Yet you don't wear 16th century Shakespearean clothes to work because you don't live in 16th century England

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

If they were available and comfortable, I might. Where the hell am i supposed to get them?

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

oh my friend! Evangeline's (the costume store in Sacramento) just reopened! I can't speak to comfortable but I can speak to where.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I live on the east coast, so I'll just stick to the stuff I can get locally. It's comfortable.

Edit: Thank you, though. If I ever find myself in Sacramento, I'll have to look the place up

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I actually had a few gowns in such a design. They were very fun to wear!

[-] Ariselas@piefed.ca 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

You must be at a boring workplace, we have several goths and one lady who daily wears renaissance era clothing and is big on renaissance fairs and medieval combat.

If it's not a health and safety risk, who cares. I mean flip flops and a budgie smuggler are not appropriate to wear on a factory floor.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

my favorite job, favorite boss, our dress code was "if you can get here without getting arrested it's fine". the day i showed up dressed like i was going to the beach (because guess what i was doing at noon) the boss came back and said "okay, new rule, if i have a client coming in you need to at least have pants and shoes on"

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

please don't talk like you know me

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