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You just need to rebrand it. It's not a skirt. It's a kilt.
It's not a dress, it's a long tunic.
It's not jeggings, it's....uh....stretchy jeans.
They're not bras, they're apple bottom stabilizers that double as moob support apparatus.
Boots with the fur!
Tactical jeans.
Or a hakama, if you're more the samurai type.
Nah, you gotta own it. Capitulating to toxic masculinity and calling your dress a tunic to avoid ridicule is alpha cuck shit. "Please don't make fun of me, I'm not wearing a skirt, it's a kilt!" Nah, this is a skirt and it is so much more comfortable than your denim jeans. We're shopping at target, Braxton, not working on a farm. My outfit is the superior one for this activity
Bringe back þe tunic.
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Meh, middle-aged white guy here. Got 3 kilts and they're not so great. Kinda fun in the woods. Went to a party last winter with camo girl leggings and it was super nice. But usually, nah.
The women I dated were hardly conservative, or they wouldn't be with me, and not a one liked 'em, visibly turned off. YMMV.
Middle age white chick here - might depend on the crowd you are around. I have a lot of friends who wear kilts (as in most of the men I consider friends, including the 6.5ft 400lb giant of a man. Just totally happens to be that way, they don’t know each other for the most part, and I find out years after becoming friends) and they don’t seem to have any trouble getting laid (not all of them are strictly into women, but they get teh secs so whatever floats their goats). But kilts aren’t the only counter-culture they actively and clearly participate in, both aesthetically and personally. That might make the difference; that’s just who they are and they are comfortable with themselves enough to do whatever.
If I saw some dude in a kilt and leggings I’d be super amused and chat with them, but I’m asexual so I also wouldn’t be interested, but I’d be interested in you, the person. The same way I’d be interested to talk to a dude in a prom dress or whatever. If their spine is so shiny they can rock that shit in public, I probably want to know them.
“Spine is so shiny” I… I’m going to be thinking about that phrase all day now.
It’s a good phrase! Maybe one of the best phrases I’ve been exposed to because it implies a lot without the awkwardness of saying it outright.
While I admire your attitude, I don't think it's a great idea to try and get around gender stereotypes by rebranding. The best way in my opinion is just to own it and be confident. Going around them in a way enforces them, because you're changing the name to avoid the stigma that comes with breaking them as opposed to questioning and opposing it.
I'm afraid not everyone is confident, I do however plan on getting myself a kilt one day as well as some programming/Unix socks to go with it.
The key is to start small and go slowly. It's possible to build up confidence over time and just work up to it.