Are you male or female? You no longer have to be either, at least in New South Wales Australia, where local government has taken a great leap forward in allowing the option of no gender to be assigned on birth certificates. This allows people born without clear gender, those who ally themselves with neither the masculine or feminine to live as they wish to, neutrally.
Entries Tagged 'gender issues' ↓
Neither Male nor Female | The Neutral Gender Has Arrived
March 11th, 2010 — gender issues
Men Wearing Beards And Dresses
March 7th, 2010 — dresses for men, frilly dresses for men, fun with femininity, gender issues
One of the hardest things for men who like feminine clothing is the fact that they often have manly traits that make the feminine clothing seem, well, unfeminine. In particular, an abundance of body hair often gets in the way, cluttering up the place and creating a clash of the worlds that some men find problematic.
The best solution, in my limited opinion, is to simply embrace the contrast. There’s nothing like a lovely handlebar mustache above a sweet pink nylon nightgown.
Black Men Wearing Dresses vs White Men Wearing Dresses
March 5th, 2010 — crossdressers behaving badly, frilly dresses for men, fun with femininity, gender issues
I told you I’d return to this issue, and so I have. Here’s a bit of a breakdown about race, gender issues and men who wear dresses for personal fulfillment or alternatively, to be laughed at.
This article came to be after I watched a video clip of Dave Chapelle talking about a time he refused to wear a dress in a movie. He went on to explain that he felt that Hollywood always tried to put strong black men in dresses for amusement value and that it was, on some level, degrading to black men. “They put every black man in the movies in a dress at some point in his career,” Chapelle says.
A Relatable Comic
March 5th, 2010 — gender issues
Why Does Hollywood Always Put Black Men In Dresses?
March 4th, 2010 — gender issues
A pretty darned interesting video, beginning with Dave Chapelle noting that Hollywood is always putting black men in dresses, and then moving onto a montage of black male actors en femme. I’ll probably return to this topic in the future, but for now, lets watch and ponder….
Why Men Must Dress Nicely
March 3rd, 2010 — gender issues
Ah, nothing like a misandric assumption to begin an article with, n’est ce pas?
As I personally lack the vapid, shallow sort of mindset that making these sorts of statements requires, I’ve taken the liberty of borrowing the following findings from the most excellent, fashion4nerds.com
Fun and games are about to ensue, read more!
Shut Up, Men And Put Some Panties On
March 1st, 2010 — frilly dresses for men, fun with femininity, gender issues
We spend a lot of time going back and forth in these articles about whether or not its okay for men to wear lingerie. Obviously the prevailing attitude is that yes, it is fine for men to wear lingerie.
Sugar and Spice And All Things Manly
March 1st, 2010 — gender issues
You know the old nursery rhyme:
What are little boys made of?
What are little boys made of?
Frogs and snails
And puppy-dogs’ tails,
That’s what little boys are made of.
Really? Methinks not.
When All Boys Were Girls
February 21st, 2010 — fun with femininity, gender issues
I love history. Why? Because it puts the modern world into context. Too many of us assume that things as they are now are the way that they’ve always been, always should be and always will be. Spending just two minutes looking at history teaches us valuable lessons about the fickle natures of fashion and the fickle nature of man himself (and herself.) For example, I bet you did not know that at one time, all children were girls.
Man Wears Boyshort Panties, Looks Pretty
February 19th, 2010 — fun with femininity, gender issues, he wears panties
After years of denying himself the treasures in the women’s side of the lingerie department. Steve Stevowitz, 34, finally cracked when he spotted the sign ‘boyshorts’ posted above some low cut pretty panties that had been calling his name all morning.
“See! I told you!” he cried, plunging into the women’s lingerie department, throwing off the cowed and confused expression society had made him wear for the past18 years. “I knew they made these for men! I knew it!”
Wife Won’t Let You Wear Women’s Clothes?
February 18th, 2010 — gender issues, he wears heels, he wears lingerie, he wears panties, lingerie and relationships
So, as you know, I spend a great deal of time telling my readers how wonderful it is for men to wear women’s clothing, and how much they should indulge their fashion sense to its fullest limits. I do realize, however, that many men who like to wear women’s clothing are very much restrained by other influences in their lives. These influences usually come in the form of women that the men in question want to remain married to or living with.
Rachel Ray Recommends Cross Dressing
February 17th, 2010 — crossdressers behaving badly, fun with femininity, gender issues
Just when you think that fashion inequality probably couldn’t get much worse, fashion trends back towards masculine styles for women and leaves men out in the cold once more. What am I talking about? Well thanks to the lovely Cyndie, I have become aware of the fact that Rachel Ray, that charming, husky voiced ex cheerleader who can make a meal quicker than McDonald’s can make your order, has recommended that her female audience wear men’s Hanes beefy tees.
