Looking into the thought of why girls should act and behave a certain way. It seems like it is an ideal that was sold in the 1950s by men. So it doesn’t really say anything about their true nature.
Now the question is why do men want girls to act in that manner. The hypothesis would be that it has some kind biological roots. That men need to feel like they are the protectors of weak and innocent.
Assuming a fraction of this is true, then I can understand the #feminism movement to ridicule the #propaganda apposed onto womenkind to suppress their nature.
@barefootstache I’m all for unisex activities/clothing/culture.
@trinsec the only one that doesn’t really work is clothing, since we all have different body types
@barefootstache Well, that kinda depends. I’m more about the … well why do girls have to wear pink frilly dresses and boys don’t?
When little girls want to wear normal clothes, the choice is very limited. Almost always pink and all that stuff. Kinda as if little kids are already forced into certain roles.
And for little children, body types don’t matter at all yet! At least until the age of puberty!
For adults, it should be normal to wear whatever, but of course adjusted for your body type, makes sense. That’s just biological.
But the difference between dresses and pants is not biological but cultural.
Back then, men wore dresses/robes too, or even skirts. And it is only recently that it was acceptable for women to wear pants. The 1950’s-60’s was kinda a revolution in dress styles. But it kinda seems like we’re regressing, online it looks like that women are only interested in makeup or something, or at least the influencers try to convince us of that. Wtf?
Annoys me a lot. Sorry for the semi-rant.
@trinsec color coding boys and girls is a weird practice we as a society adopted. One could choose a neutral color like yellow for both sexes, but it is very stressful for the parents to enforce this decision onto their peers. Since the peers will default to the societal standards.
If we dressed according to our physiology then men would wear dresses and women pants. The Scotts knew something about comfort…
And makeup, depending on the circles you travel in, you will see everything from men/women wearing or not wearing makeup. Anything regarding hairstyling could be considered as a form of makeup.
Makeup as a tool for enhancement is fine, though for cover ups for natural beauty is a big no-no. This is a very thin line.