This is an interesting article about society’s double standard of it being ok for girls to dress in “boy’s” clothing, but it still being weird for boys to dress in “girl’s” clothing. While the article might be about kids, what is discussed can equally be applied to adults.
The gender-neutral fashion movement is failing little boys who want to wear skirts | Freya Bennett
A societal double standard is emerging where girls in traditionally ‘boys’ clothing are accepted while boys opting for pink frills are labelled ‘weird’
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Yeah, society finds it OK to make girls be more masculine, but it’s not OK to make boys more feminine. Now we still maintain what is “girlish” or not, and we mostly allow girls to go for “not girlish” style of things that we consider as such. Boys basically have to become “adults” to be able to freely and safely go for so called feminine style.
While there’s appreciation for that on the Internet, the life “is happening” outside of the web, and I personally find photo of male in a skirt or thigh highs somewhere on the fresh air more valuable than photo of a guy wearing tights somewhere in a dark room, as the first pushes us more towards actual equality, present in public. Not that I want 50% of guys to wear skirts, but what we see on the streets can tell us more about the changes in society.
That is definitely true and it’s really sad. Society needs to realize that all people are complex beings that exhibit a range of characteristics that are categorized as being either feminine or masculine which makes the categorization entirely superfluous and ridiculous. There should just be traits without the gender association.