Wearing pants makes you a man, duh

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[–]turtleduck23 43 insightful - 15 fun43 insightful - 14 fun44 insightful - 15 fun -  (7 children)

Wow, she's 19, that means that when she was 12 and in middle school it was around 2013. I highly doubt that in 2013 girls were only wearing dresses and against those who wore pants. My god she acts like she grew up in the 1920's and girls were banned from wearing pants. I mean, in 2005 I was in middle school and it was rare not to see a girl in pants. Did people think she was a lesbian or wanted to be a man? Where did she grow up because even in the bible thumping south women still wear pants, I have so many questions.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 30 insightful - 39 fun30 insightful - 38 fun31 insightful - 39 fun -  (1 child)

she acts like she grew up in the 1920s

She's trans-historical you bigot, don't erase her time travel experience.

edit: spelling

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 14 insightful - 3 fun14 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

God, this killed me 😂 I love this sub

[–]julesburm1891 28 insightful - 2 fun28 insightful - 1 fun29 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I had the exact same thought. Even back in kindergarten (1997) in a really conservative area, pretty much every girl wore pants all the time.

[–]turtleduck23 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I just can't see in 2013 girls finding wearing pants as strange even if the school requires it. Most women, female celebs wear pants, even more so than dresses, and I can't believe she would be the only girl at her school to want to wear pants.. At my school girls were suppose to wear knee high skirts but majority showed up in pants so the school made wearing skirts optional.

[–]AugustiJade 17 insightful - 3 fun17 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

I grew up in the 80s in a conservative country, and I wore trousers. What is this comic artist on about..?

[–]artetolife 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can kind of believe it. It's tagged #uniform which seems to make girls weirdly judgemental about what others wear to school. At mine it was the total opposite - girls got made fun of for wearing the skirt instead of the trousers.

[–]reluctant_commenter 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Actually-- if you look at the comments on the post, it was in a religious school. I had a super similar experience when I went to a Catholic school for a couple years as a kid, believe it or not. The girls who were at all GNC and wore shorts or pants instead of skirts, were bullied.

The messed up part is the idea that this experience should make you trans, or not at all your gender.

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 29 insightful - 11 fun29 insightful - 10 fun30 insightful - 11 fun -  (0 children)

Are. they. for. real? ARE THEY FOR REAL?

[–]a_blue_bird 22 insightful - 16 fun22 insightful - 15 fun23 insightful - 16 fun -  (1 child)

Interesting. Someone told her that she looked cute in skirts, so for years she only wore skirts to please them? And then when one time she wore pants, and one person asked her a weird question, she had to lie about liking pants and went back to skirts? Yeah, this is a normal person who can handle the real world, absolutely.

[–]fuck_reddit 17 insightful - 7 fun17 insightful - 6 fun18 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

It's so absolutist. Like I like wearing pants, but I also like wearing shorts. If someone said to me "you look so good in shorts, why don't you wear them more often" I would be like "that's a nice compliment, maybe I should wear shorts more" not "OMG they hate when I wear pants, I'm never wearing them again!"

[–]shveya 24 insightful - 11 fun24 insightful - 10 fun25 insightful - 11 fun -  (0 children)

Lol these people are stuck in the 1940's if they think pants/trousers on a woman are some outlandish statement. You ain't Katharine Hepburn, sis.

[–]fuck_reddit 23 insightful - 7 fun23 insightful - 6 fun24 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

This is so melodramatic. This would be believable if it was the early 1900's...

[–]haveanicedaytoo💗💜💙 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, I'm watching Anne with an E right now, and in season 3, there is a lady who wears pants sometimes and the town's people go "OMG! She's wearing pants!"

LIKE WTF is going on in 2020's Australia that this is a problem?

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Omg, I also watched Anne with an E! I loved it! :D

[–]CJLez 20 insightful - 7 fun20 insightful - 6 fun21 insightful - 7 fun -  (2 children)

This person is 19 and Australian. I know some parts of Australia are still very rural but are people really pulled aside to ask if they are "one of them" (unclear if they mean trans or a lesbian) after wearing trousers one single time in high school?

When I was at high school c. 1999-2002 the girls had to wear above-the-knee skirts (uniform) or be sent home, even in the middle of winter. At the time I thought it was plain old sexism. I guess it was really about transphobia all this time.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Aren't most schools in Australia uniform mandating anyway?

[–]CJLez 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I thought so as well, but that might just be my memories of Neighbours/Home and Away talking. I think they'd probably have a trouser and a skirt option.

[–]SeasideLimbs 19 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 1 fun20 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

The tags confuse me. "#gender roles"? Because that's what the comic is actually, ultimately about? "#homophobia"? What does being genderspecial have to do with homosexuality?

[–]RedditHatesLesbiansHomosexual Not Queer[S] 15 insightful - 8 fun15 insightful - 7 fun16 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

Hurr durr being trans is about breaking gender roles hurr durr

[–]VioletRemiCat, homosexual one 24 insightful - 11 fun24 insightful - 10 fun25 insightful - 11 fun -  (0 children)

No, it is about cementing gender roles in stone.

[–]hyunnahh 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

apparently homophobia is used to describe the "discrimination" that the ENTIRE LGBTQIA+ community face now

[–]SeasideLimbs 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No kidding. About a year ago, I saw a bus that was covered in ad material for some political party's initiative or another. It consisted of signs on which two concepts were contrasted, the first always struck through, like "racism tolerance." No joke, one of the signs was "Homophobia Gender." I would have made a photo if I'd had my smartphone with me at the time.

[–]PassionateIntensity 11 insightful - 8 fun11 insightful - 7 fun12 insightful - 8 fun -  (1 child)

I genuinely can't tell if this is satire.

I once saw a Tumblrina say riding a bike made a woman genderfluid.

[–]Ricky_Ticky 9 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 7 fun10 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

Omg... The girl is greeting us from the Victorian Era. It's a sign that the time machine has been invented and we are the first to find out...

[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay but wait a sec, this is actually really sad. If you read the comments, you'll see that it was girls at her religious school assuming she was gay and making fun of her for "not being a girl" because she wore pants. That was absolutely a real thing at the religious school I went to as a kid. Gender stereotypes.

The heartbreaking thing is that this is tagged as "trans". I swear to god. People feel pressured to change gender just to wear the clothes they like without harassment and bullying. :(

[–]Ladis_Wascheharuum 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

This character looks almost exactly like Connie Maheswaran from Steven Universe... you know, the one who often wears pants, and is also a skilled swordfighter, while also very comfortable with being the girl that she is.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

too bad the show's writing sucked, connie was actually a pretty good character

[–]LasagnaRossa 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The next post with the umbrellas is even more idiotic

[–]writerlylesbian 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Australian dinosaur lesbian here who went to high school in the 90s. Yes, the vast majority of schools in Australia have a school uniform you are obliged to wear. How strict the school is about adhering to the uniform usually depends on the school. State schools (i.e. the free schools funded by the government that any old riff-raff can go to) are usually more flexible than private schools, especially for state schools in poorer areas where parents often can't afford expensive uniforms. I went to one such state school, and the uniform was white polo shirt and shorts or school skirt in the warmer months, and a generic tracksuit of a certain colour in the cold months.

Meanwhile, snotty nosed private school kids I caught the bus with had much stricter uniforms, and they couldn't ignore it or switch it up at all. Girls had to wear skirts, no shorts for them, also usually blouses for the girls and shirts for the boys. Everything had to have the school logo plastered all over it. All of them, boys and girls, also had to wear hideous hats and even their schoolbag had to be a special one bought from the school with the school logo and colours.

But like I say - us trashy state school kids didn't care that much about sticking to the rules, and the school didn't care that much either. In winter, a lot of girls wore slacks rather than ugly track pants. A lot of the boys did too. At one point, our school got stroppy about it and tried to stop the girls (just the girls) wearing slacks, but that was just plain old sexism. And none of the girls cared, they just kept wearing slacks. I can't imagine that things would have changed so much that a girl would get accused of being 'one of them' (what? a lesbian? a transkid?) for wearing pants in 2013.

What she's really complaining about with all of the pressure to be cute, pretty, decorative etc. is sex-role stereotypes. Yes, they suck for everyone. That's why feminists want to get rid of them. They don't just suck for gender-specials, who think they should get exemptions and leave the rest of us in the poo.

[–]Blank-out 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Eh I hate the enforced dress codes of schools... my school had this and I was constantly getting in trouble for wearing shorts/pants under my dress.

[–]Shinjin_NanaNopes faster than an Aeldari Jetbike 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Who responds to a compliment like that in real life?

I wear pants and skirts and if someone tells me I look cute in a skirt I don't drop my entire wardrobe of pants into the incinerator and ever again touch pants. What are these sheilas on about?????

Looking at her bio she also can't seem to figure out how pronouns work, so I'm going to go with lost cause.

[–]Ossidiana 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wow. I'm speechless. And she's 19? She's not like, 12? Nineteen years old and she thinks wearing pants as a woman is such a special thing in 2020? Hello, somebody tell her that women wearing pants has been trendy and fashionable since the '60s? It's like she wanted so badly to be oppressed, couldn't really find anything, and all she could think of is that she doesn't like gowns.