• FreshLight@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Can’t parents just talk to their children about how to dress?

    I feel like that’s a simpler solution and this way the school can focus on teaching.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of tangential but towards the end of HS we had this ongoing trend of wearing costumes to school every wednesday. Some of the class participated more often than others, some (including me) barely participated at all.

      There was one week where everyone was determined to participate though, because we had planned for boys to go dressed as girls and vice-versa. I still didn’t really care to join them but some friends of mine said they’d lend me some of their clothes and makeup so I’d have no excuse to not participate.

      What I didn’t anticipate is that they’d dress me up just like the guy in the pic, only difference being that I’m underweight, not overweight. Still looked like a fool though, but that was part of the fun, not some pseudo political statement.

      Anyways, tangent over.

          • Fal@yiffit.net
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            1 year ago

            The statement was “look at how funny it is to wear clothes of the wrong gender. Isn’t it hilarious that a woman could be wearing pants?! Hahahaha”

            Yeah. No thanks

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              1 year ago

              I hope you find some mental peace some day. It must be exhausting to have so many sticks up your butt.

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                1 year ago

                So you’re saying in the 90s, the “let’s all crossdress at school” was all about normalizing clothing regardless of gender, being inclusive of people’s gender and clothing choices, and and destigmatizing gender non confirming people? It wasn’t because the idea of a boy in a skirt was a concept that should me mocked and thought of as a joke?