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> legally free to wear a skirt in my country, yet I've never done and I've also met almost none who did - because of the socials costs this would incur.

I also have never weared skirt, but reasons are entirely personal - have no internal motivation to do so, have opinion that trousers are more practical and have no skirt in wardrobe. But i assume that if i ever wear a skirt, nobody would give a damn.

You can say that lack of my personal interest to wear a skirt is an effect of societal indoctrination and it may be true, but there is a clear difference between accepting/integrating that position and being forced to it by fear of societal costs. The second is oppression, the first is not.



> But i assume that if i ever wear a skirt, nobody would give a damn.

Really? Give it a try for a month.

I would be highly surprised if you don’t get called names, ridiculed, or worse, physically attacked.

And that is if your employer even allows you to wear a dress in the office.


> Really? Give it a try for a month.

Sounds like an interesting experiment. Perhaps i will try that after covid season.


Cool! If you do, I’d be curious to hear about your experience.




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