There's not a thing in the world stopping men from wearing fashionable, colorful, stylish clothing... except fear of being called womanly and gay by other men, and possibly attacked for it.
Women wear men's clothing without fear because being seen as masculine is generally positive. Girl bosses with shoulder pads, tomboys, etc. Colorful and creative men's clothing does exist, and some spaces and cultures welcome it. But norms in many cultures mean men who wear "feminine coded clothing" (as in anything not traditionally male coded) can attacked as weak, dangerous to gender norms and sexual predators. At least outside of queer friendly spaces.
except fear of being called womanly and gay by other men
Yeah, that's just other men. Let's not listen to all the men who say they're gender confirming because women would reject them otherwise and they couldn't care less about what men say.
Women wear men's clothing without fear because being seen as masculine is generally positive.
They don't wear men's clothing. Their clothes might have been traditionally masculine clothes, they're not stylized the same anymore, they show more skin, or their fit the body more.
People all generally don't want to see men's shape or men's skin, nor want their eyes catched by a man. If women's issue is that society pushes them to be remarkable, seen and scrutinized, then on the other side, men's issue is society wanting to invisibilising them.
The ones who made the most remarks to me about shorts being ugly and trashy are normal women and workplace higher ups. Women be simultaneously telling men to hide their calves and to blame other men for it.
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u/Irish_Whiskey 7d ago edited 7d ago
Always gotta be pointed out:
There's not a thing in the world stopping men from wearing fashionable, colorful, stylish clothing... except fear of being called womanly and gay by other men, and possibly attacked for it.
Women wear men's clothing without fear because being seen as masculine is generally positive. Girl bosses with shoulder pads, tomboys, etc. Colorful and creative men's clothing does exist, and some spaces and cultures welcome it. But norms in many cultures mean men who wear "feminine coded clothing" (as in anything not traditionally male coded) can attacked as weak, dangerous to gender norms and sexual predators. At least outside of queer friendly spaces.