• Soleos@lemmy.world
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    Men set the craziest standards for other men, no wonder men’s mental health is in decline. Who tf can realistically achieve that look, those arms, that jaw. It’s giving me a crisis of masculinity just looking at it.

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      I pretty much have those arms, but my jaw is closer to the lady on the left lmao

      But most of all, I do NOT have his waistline. Look at that v-taper. Thin in the middle, wide lats. I’d have to lose a good 40 KG to achieve that and the average man probably could not achieve that at all without years of working out because it’s pretty hard to get lats that wide.

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    Men should get to wear pretty sundresses too.

    I don’t even mean in a femboy sense (though that’s great too). Gimme beefcakes and bears in sundresses, damnit.

    Edit: and also lanky thin guys in dresses too

    Edit 2: Might be useful context to know that I am a woman, so this comment should be read with the understanding that I am “thirstposting on main”, as the kids say

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        I’m actually a woman, who is thirsty for a utopian future in which men of all sorts wear pretty sundresses. I have heard plenty of guys say they wish that it were socially acceptable to wear them though (and whilst I’m very much an advocate of “fuck what everyone else thinks, wear what makes you happy”, dressing in a gender non-conforming manner can be actively dangerous, which is depressing for so many reasons)

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      May I introduce you to the kilt? It changed my life. Stylish, shows off my legs, and the gentlemen approve of the airflow during the searing 10 months of Texas summer.

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        Whilst I appreciate your suggestion, I’m actually a women who loves the many pleasures of skirts and dresses (including but not limited to: easy access for sex; hiding objects in secret petticoat pockets; placing my skirt over the AC unit during a heat wave).

        I wonder if I should have mentioned in my comment that I’m a woman, because if I read it as if it’s from a man’s perspective, then it does give a “damn, I wish it were socially acceptable for me, a man, to wear a dress”.

        But no, the angle of my comment was that I would go absolutely fucking feral for men in sundresses. (aside from being queer enough that I don’t care about gender norms much, and actively find it attractive to see people dressing in subversive ways, I am also recalling a random gif I saw way back that involved two muscular dudes wearing sundresses for a joke and deciding “actually, we look and feel hot as hell in these”. That gif changed me, man.)

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        You know, this comment was actually pretty inspiring for me. I only own one sundress, and it’s been sitting in my “to be repaired” bag for way too long. However, I am spending this weekend with a partner, and so I am suddenly motivated to repair that damn dress.

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          I’m glad :D Not sure if this is the origin of the reference, but it’s something like that:

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        As a cis-het male, I am absolutely clueless about how comfortable or uncomfortable skirts are, let alone a cute dress like that.

        Maybe we’re missing out, guys.

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          You can be cis-het and wear a sundress if you want to. Once you buy one, it stops being “women’s clothes” and becomes your clothes.

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            Yeah, no. First of all, good luck finding one that fits my physique well. And then, I don’t think that’s how living in a society works, unfortunately.

            I won’t judge people who do, but I lack both the self-esteem and the dysphoria-driven desperation to pull it off myself, nonetheless.

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          Guys are absolutely missing out because skirts and dresses are awesome. Sometimes on hot days, I’ll move my skirt more because it’s hot and my partner says I’m “cooling down the vag”. He’s absolutely correct, it feels great on hot days and I bet guys would love it if y’all would try it out. Get yourself a kilt and go for it man.

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            Sometimes when it’s super hot and I have a large skirt on, I stand next to the AC unit and put my skirt over it. Absolute heaven

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                Half baked sort-of meme:

                What guys think feminine solidarity is:

                <Gossipping about dates and sharing makeup advice>

                The feminine solidarity that guys don’t see:

                “Putting your skirt over the AC unit feels amazing


                Idk why, but this tickles me a lot. I think it’s because I know what it looks like to have a large circle skirt draped over an AC unit, and it’s distinctly unfeminine.

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        Eh, to each their own I guess. I don’t like how snug the bodice looks, nor am I a fan of constantly managing my leg positioning and monitoring the breeze lest I expose myself - and that is without even mentioning sun protection. But you do you.

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              Eh, I’m at a stage where the gender binary makes zero sense when it comes to appearance and socialisation. Why do women wear dresses and men don’t? Because dead people decided that men should dress one way, and women another, and we still cut about like any of that shit matters. I like to wear dresses not because I might be trans, but because I like dressing pretty. I’m a man who likes to wear swishy skirts around the house, and it doesn’t bother my wife.

              Fat Mike said it best.

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                yeah I think I’m around that stage too, I really don’t care for my appearance in that way too much but I try to comply in public to keep my job

                i might dress and put a wig or something on halloween, my husband doesnt really care that much on my gender, he is a self declared pansexual and we joke a lot around me being trans or not

                it’s difficult to put myself in any strict gender when i barely feel like performing as a person and it looks like a pain in the ass to perform femininity (i’m also very tall so performing masc is just existing for me)

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    There was a mafia Don interview I saw and they asked him the #1 rule of being a mafioso. He said “never wear shorts, no one will take you seriously”😂I think about that every time I wear shorts

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      one of my worst days was when I was told I could not wear shorts to an internship

      my brother in cheesus we are in the middle of the summer reaching 50 degrees celsius (120 for burger metrics) LET ME HAVE MY SHORTS

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      I’m not a mafia boss, I wear shorts all summer (March/April through October or so) Office, doctor’s appointment, whatever. It’s shorts for me.

      I used to joke that one day I’m going to walk into the Mercedes dealership wearing shorts and ask them to test drive a brand new S-Class, but my priorities have changed somewhat in the meantime so I don’t think I’ll be doing that. Not such a huge fan of their newest interiors anyway.

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      I would like one, but unfortunately I am not diagnosed with autism. I do think it would be hilarious to wear it otherwise.

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    Not comfortable enough to wear a sundress I guess, but if there wasn’t a cultural element that could create a problem, I would wear the fuck out of those breezy robes you see Muslim guys wearing to mosque in the summer.

    It’s fucking hot and I trust the fashion choices of people from desert climates. A good idea is a good idea. I have watched these guys while sweating my balls off with severe envy before.

    The day I’m told by an Imam “Dude, no one would give a fuck”, I’m making a purchase.

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    I think this applies the most to the average American man rather than the men of the rest of the world.

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      Or, get this, the poster is a guy who genuinely feels like this.

      I can’t deny that I (as a guy) have often wondered what women see in us, because to me the vast majority of men are poorly dressed on top of looking like we don’t take care of ourselves.

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          That’s a stretch. I don’t need to hate someone (including myself) to deem them less attractive or just not my type.

          And I honestly think that’s what’s at play here - straight guys are into women and will judge their appearance differently from how they judge the appearance of other men.

          Perhaps we don’t collectively look like we dress poorly and barely take care of ourselves to women, as they likely look at other aspects of our physical appearance than we do

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            example of your point because i agree with it: i was out the other day. i was out of jeans so i put on khakis. i fucking hate khakis so these are old and nasty. i had two errands. one of them was to stop by the pet store and get cat food and the shirt store i like is near there so i thought i’d poke my head in and see if they had anything i liked enough that i could pretend I had enough money to buy. (they did not. it’s been a few years)

            Lisa at the shirt store, she noticed right away that i was wearing my shitty khakis. First thing she said was something remarkably rude about them, i don’t remember because fuck you Lisa you don’t treat customers like that. I already knew they were ugly that’s why i hadn’t worn them in seven years.

            Now, I went to high school with Lisa and she had a reputation for, how do i put this. You know the stereotype of the lesbian who broadcasts to everyone the vitriol with which she hates men? Lisa was that but not a lesbian (that i knew of) and hated everyone. I never learned of any disability, or remarkable personal difficulty, she just hated everyone and everything. But this is me she insulted. There’s so. damn. much. to choose from. She went straight for the pants. Those awful, awful pants. Either low hanging fruit or that’s what she was focusing on.

            Anyways I pop in to grab cat food and there’s Quinn. Quinn immediately yells LOOK AT THOSE SHOES at me and we do a little dance by the register. (they are very nice shoes). Then I grabbed my cat food, biked back homo and gave the cat treats.

            So yeah, that one day it was pants vs shoes. But like, locally you tell how fancy a man is dressed by his shoes. Men just wear jeans everywhere unless you’re going to court.