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Anti-social or Anti-cultural 11-08-2003 12:00 PM
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What do men in skirts or kilts really face in our society that cause so much fear when it comes to our clothing options? I know that if I haven't gone out anywhere, lately, in a kilt or skirt, then the next time that I do, I feel at least of the same tensions and fear that I felt the first time I tried to do it. That same fear that an unknown "something" is going to happen and all the world as we know it will end the minute someone see me in a skirt instead of pants.
But what is this fear?
I've begun to believe that it's Anti-cultural, not anti-social. Nor is it a matter of legallity either.
The only laws I know of in far N.W. suburbs of the Chicago Metro area are laws on public nudity. As long as I've clothed my nakedness then no laws are being broken. And we've all be anti-social at time. When we wake up in a bad mood that day and don't want to talk to anyone else.
But the MIS-MIK bias in our society is about cultural norms. It has nothing to do with our society or it's laws. We are bucking the culture that is now based on the 15 second sound byte. The culture that changes the "truth" about our history from moment to moment. The truth we all think we believe is whatever the last hit movie or TV show told us it is.
The media, as we know it today began in the post war years of the 1940s and 1950s with culture of that time seen as the only thing that ever existed. Father Knows Best and Donna Reed were the standards that were supposed to have always been there. The media's strongest influence began then. During the fear of being different generated by the McCarthy hearings. Remember the men's suits and fashions back then. That's what everyone wanted us all to believe was the only way we could dress, forever and ever.
Boys wear pants, only girls wear dresses and skirts.
That is the cultural inertia MIK-MIS face. And the fear of violating that cultural bias is the one that cause that deep, in the pit of the stomache fear that many first skirters face.
And the only way to end it is by doing what we want to do, wear our kilts and skirts.
Dennis
bravenet.com