100 Men in NYC Seek Right to Wear Skirts

[baldguy]

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"We're not transvestites, homosexuals or cross-dressers," David Johnson told the New York Times for Sunday editions. "We don't want you to call us Jean or Sally. We're men. Men who want the right to wear a skirt."

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"The male bird is always the pretty one, not the female," another participant, 27-year-old Chris Taylor, told the Times. "Why can't the male human being dress with style and color?"

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040208/ap_on_re_us/men_in_skirts

[chasqui]

1. LOL!

[fleetus]

2. This takes metrosexual to the next level.

[EstimatedProphet]

3. Kilts rock!

I wish I had one in my family tartan!

[tinrobot]

4. I saw someone fired for wearing a dress...

Back in the 80's. THis guy was a punk rocker, always wore strange stuff, gave people attitude. One day he shows up in a dress.

They asked him "Why the dress?"

"It's a career dress"

The boss had to laugh... but he was fired anyways.

[Riptide]

5. I hope they wear pantyhose, too, because

they are the work of the devil! I hate wearing pantyhose, which is why I love pant suits (thank you, Hilary!)

They can also have thongs, while we're at it.

[JoFerret]

7. Unwearable shoes

and why not also the full gear - corsets, stays, hair rollers the lot. Sane women have dumped this crap so they are welcome to it.

[Bridget Burke]

9. No pantyhose if they follow Scottish tradition....

Indeed, nothing under the kilts but their pride!

[FlaGranny]

6. What???

Women fought for years to wear pants. Why would anyone WANT to wear a skirt? I'm flummoxed!

I'm all for men dressing in colors, but danged if I want to see those knobby knees on most of them ;-)


Edit: and scrawney ankles!

[Lars39]

21. Probably for the same reason my husband likes to wear overalls:

so his dingle can dangle! :)

[Thor_MN]

22. I wouldn't go so far as to want to wear a skirt, but shorts would be nice

when it's hot and humid. Women intelligently switch to light open clothes in hot weather while men are stuck in their dress pants, shirt and tie. We've pretty much killed the suit coat, except for the most formal situation and business casual is helping, but shorts still don't make the grade.

On the other hand, in general, we men tend to control the AC and crank it when we can. I point out to female coworkers who complain that it's too cold in the office in the summer that the only practical options are thar they can either wear warmer clothes or I can start start wearing less.

[pop goes the weasel]

8. good for them

Sometimes a skirt is the most comfortable thing in the world to wear. Men should be as free as women to decide what sort of clothing they will wear.

[m-jean03]

10. Can I call you...

"We're not transvestites, homosexuals or cross-dressers," David Johnson told the New York Times for Sunday editions. "We don't want you to call us Jean or Sally.

---Okay, but can I call you Klinger? :-)

[scottxyz]

18. Yes they are transvestites

Etymology:

trans + vest
cross + dress

They may not get a sexual thrill from cross-dressing - but then not all transvestites do.

They may be heterosexual - but then most transvestites are.

But they ARE transvestites - no matter how much they protest that word.

Until, of course, such time as so many men wear dresses that a man wearing one no longer constitutes "cross-dressing".

[Virginian]

11. There are kilts in every color. Tartans for just about anything.

I went to a wedding where the groomsmen all wore kilts.

These guys are mechanics and bikers. I thought they looked more appropriate in kilts than they would have in Tuxidos.

[mainer]

12. Only if you have the legs for it

Otherwise, leave it to the Bravehearts, please, guys.

[0007]

13. I didn't read the link because IMO this is crazy ...

Is it against the law for men to wear a dress?

[FlaGranny]

14. I'm certain it is not against the law.

They probably don't want to get fired for wearing a skirt to work, so they probably want a law saying you can't fire a man for doing that.

[0007]

16. Gotta ya, that makes sense. Well sort of, LOL!!

[Johnyawl]

15. For all Kilt lovers..

http://www.utilikilts.com/

They're all the rage in Seattle, I have one, as do my two sons (17 & 20). You see them all over town, the last concert I went to (small local band) out of approx 500 guys there about 1 out of 10 were wearing a utilikilt.

[smirkymonkey]

17. I was as the Farmers Market in

Union Square this weekend and saw a man in a non-tartan sort of kilt, it was army green and he looked kind of nice in it. I don't see any problem with it at all - I rather enjoy looking at men's legs and some men just look better in skirts than shorts for some reason.

[arwalden]

19. Aren't Kilts Widely (If Not Universally) Permitted??

One would think so. How is this much different?

-- Allen

[Xithras]

20. I wore a kilt to work once

It was interesting, to say the least. Our college was celebrating Cultural Heritage Week and I took the liberty to don first the family tartan (I'm half scot), and then some undecorated kilts.

I was called into the Dean of Distance Learning & Technology's office on the third day of that week and was bluntly told to "put my damned pants back on". Apparently a female faculty member was coming up a flight of stairs as I was coming down, caught a glimpse of my undies, and complained (hey at least I WORE undies...real Scots go au naturel). When I pointed out that the same thing could have just as easily occurred with a female employee and that any skirt ban should apply to women as well, I was ignored and told that I'd be suspended without pay if I showed up in a skirt again because my behavior equated to "sexual harrassment" because it made women "uncomfortable".

And this occurred in a supposedly "liberal" college. :eyes:

[chasqui]

24. Administrators can be such knobs

There is a fairly well known lawsuit against Taco Bell that is in the same vein as your situation seems to be.
A Corporate Trainer was fired becuase he used the word 'Pedagogical' in a memo. Apparently some female complained about the word: she thought it was 'pedophilic' or something like that. No one in the entire chain caught it. So the trainer was fired, and then sued for wrongful termination.
Ignorance is a nasty thing.
Kind of like the office gal I sometimes ride the train with, she was doing the NY Times crossword puzzle. She saw the clue: 'Has Haendel Bars.' She wrote: "BICYCLE"
What spell checker addicted morons.

[leesa]

23. Good for them. I personally hate wearing dresses and skirts, but if

they want to they should be able to.

[banana republican]

25. Let's hear it for the Scotts