I know some of you might be thinking, “Not another article about a male celebrity wearing skirts!”, but I’m posting it anyway because I think it’s still relevant. The more male celebrities that publically wear skirts, the more exposure we get and (hopefully) the more mainstream and accepted it will become for men to wear skirts.
A couple of sentences from the last paragraph particularly stuck with me: “It shows just how far menswear’s come. This stuff isn’t a novelty. Loads of guys are in on skirts.”
Lil Nas X is the supreme leader of guys who wear skirts
At a Coach show during New York Fashion Week, Montero went maxi and took the throne
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/lil-nas-x-skirt-coach-2023
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While I am a supporter of the LGBTQ community, I am not part of it. Unfortunately, flamboyant, openly gay celebrities like Lil Nas and Billy Porter only perpetuate the false notion that any male who wears female attire must be gay or transgender. So for me, that is not a positive.
What we really need is movie or television show that has a straight, “masculine” character who wears skirts and is portrayed by a popular actor.
That would serve to normalize it in everyday life while providing that celebrity factor.
In that aspect, you are certainly right. It’s not helping those of us who are heterosexual and/or not flamboyant. A movie or television show featuring such a character would be really excellent. I really hope we see one at some point.
Hm, that’s a difficult topic to be honest. I also think that it’s good we have celebrities wearing skirts (in the end, it impacts younger generation minds the most and we hope more men will simply feel no limitations in here), but at the same time, I feel like “celebrity” world has gone far away from “normal” people, living their “normal” life. This might potentially have the other-side impact, causing people who do things that celebrities do, as “retarded / stupid”, to shock someone or whatever.
I feel it especially recently, when looking into last Eurovision concerts which are less and less popular, and it’s not a surprise for me given what kind of performances are there, that people just do other things than watching this. Celebrities are now a bit out of place, not feeling associated at any part as a ‘regular mind’, hard to identify self with them at any slightest iota.
I’m also happy that more male celebrities are wearing skirts publicly, but you’re certainly right about them being somewhat abnormal in terms of their image and how it doesn’t really affect the average person very much.