I had to fight my own father for the right to wear pants growing up. And you see people online today who still argue that women shouldn’t be “allowed” to wear pants.
It’s completely arbitrary how clothing got associated to gender over the course of history.
I remember numerous instances where skirts were seen as manly, iirc the scottish and the romans had that notion. I think pants as we have them today were only introduced around 1800? Because they are more difficult to manufacture and were developed mostly for blue-collar workers as protective clothing.
The northern “barbarians” wore pants even in roman times. The romans were agast (TBF, I wouldn’t want to wear pants in Italy’s climate, either). Since then there has been a bit of back-and-forth.
It wasn’t that long ago that women wearing pants was considered to be wrong. Wome used to be arrested in the US for wearing pants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers_as_women’s_clothing#United_States_and_Europe
I had to fight my own father for the right to wear pants growing up. And you see people online today who still argue that women shouldn’t be “allowed” to wear pants.
“I can’t keep my dick in my pants when I see the shape of a woman’s crotch and it’s your fault”
Oh there was a lot of that when I was growing up. My Dad was a big fan of Rush Limbaugh.
It’s completely arbitrary how clothing got associated to gender over the course of history.
I remember numerous instances where skirts were seen as manly, iirc the scottish and the romans had that notion. I think pants as we have them today were only introduced around 1800? Because they are more difficult to manufacture and were developed mostly for blue-collar workers as protective clothing.
The northern “barbarians” wore pants even in roman times. The romans were agast (TBF, I wouldn’t want to wear pants in Italy’s climate, either). Since then there has been a bit of back-and-forth.