• DJDarren
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    3 hours ago

    I wish it were acceptable for men to wear bright dresses.

    I said that to my wife a few months ago, so she said “why don’t you try on some of mine?”

    So yeah, I now have few dresses I wear around the house. They’re great. Nice and floaty.

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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, dresses are pretty comfortable. I did a couple of things in high school that I guess you could consider drag, except I was playing this old lady character I invented that would ramble on and on about very little in a Harvey Firestein voice because she also chain smoked.

      Anyway, I wore dresses for that. They were quite comfy. It would be awesome if a man could wear a formal dress to a formal occasion and not get stares (unless the stares were at that amazing dress he’s wearing).

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        3 hours ago

        I don’t even see it as drag, because I’m not dressing as a woman. I’m a guy wearing a dress, not a guy trying to be a woman.

        Because when you really stop think about it, it makes no sense that clothes should be gendered. What is inherently ‘female’ about a dress, beyond the expectation that only women should wear them. I mentioned that somewhere on here before, to which one guy mentioned that swinging dicks might be an issue, and right, two things: 1) underwear exists, and 2) I don’t know about anyone else, but my dick doesn’t swing that low. Perhaps I’m unlucky.

        But yeah, the older I get the less sense it makes that we must dress in a specific way based on what genitals we have.

        I kinda just want to feel like my clothes look pretty sometimes. Women can dress masculine with barely a mention, so why can’t I dress feminine sometimes?

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          3 hours ago

          Sorry, I didn’t mean to suggest it was drag. I just was suggesting that’s what you could have called the times I wore a dress.

          It shouldn’t be drag. It should just be normalized.

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            3 hours ago

            It’s cool, I wasn’t being pissy.

            But yeah, exactly that.