• bryophile@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    Everyone believes they’re choosing freely, especially when they’re choosing what their culture taught them to want.

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      11 hours ago

      That applies to literally everyone and doesn’t justify anything, men are no less or more immune, and the choice should be the one who is or would be wearing or not wearing a given piece of clothing on whether they do or don’t wear it. Neither men nor the state should be taking the agency for women to decide for themselves what to or to not wear.

      At best this makes your comment unrelated, random, and pointless, as it says nothing. But we both know you are actually providing cover for the misogynist view that women shouldn’t be able to decide for themselves. It’s not exactly subtle, not even slightly, in fact it is infuriating. So please, look deep inside yourself, reflect, and STOP!

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        4 hours ago

        Yes you’re absolutely right, anyone of any gender should be able to wear or not wear what they want.

        My point was more philosophical. It is indeed random and pointless, but I find it interesting to think of things like this. You may not find this interesting or read something misogynist into this, which was definitely far from what I meant so I’m sorry for offending you.

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        7 hours ago

        They are not deciding for themselves. That’s the point. Although banning is also not the solution either, I agree.

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      18 hours ago

      I generally wear what’s most comfortable for me. Sometimes I’ll “dress up” for stuff where it’s socially still “required” like job interviews or weddings, but even that is rare for me.

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        18 hours ago

        Yet you don’t wear 16th century Shakespearean clothes to work because you don’t live in 16th century England

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            13 hours ago

            oh my friend! Evangeline’s (the costume store in Sacramento) just reopened! I can’t speak to comfortable but I can speak to where.

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              13 hours ago

              I live on the east coast, so I’ll just stick to the stuff I can get locally. It’s comfortable.

              Edit: Thank you, though. If I ever find myself in Sacramento, I’ll have to look the place up

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          16 hours ago

          You must be at a boring workplace, we have several goths and one lady who daily wears renaissance era clothing and is big on renaissance fairs and medieval combat.

          If it’s not a health and safety risk, who cares. I mean flip flops and a budgie smuggler are not appropriate to wear on a factory floor.

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            13 hours ago

            my favorite job, favorite boss, our dress code was “if you can get here without getting arrested it’s fine”. the day i showed up dressed like i was going to the beach (because guess what i was doing at noon) the boss came back and said “okay, new rule, if i have a client coming in you need to at least have pants on”