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[–]onenaivecanary 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm pretty sure that dressing as women for skits and team entertainment is pretty common in pretty much all groups of bored men living in a long-term sex segregated environment (boarding schools, the armed services, etc).

[–]Dromedary 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Absolutely this. It's for comedy, a really old thing from when people didn't have a million things to entertain themselves. I've seen pics of "beauty pageants" on US destroyers during WWII, and I think cross-dressing was part of a ritual for newbie sailors crossing the Equator for the first time. People shouldn't read too much into old photos taken out of context this way. But I get the feeling the person who wrote the article is young and dumb with a brain steeped in identity politics. It's a really stupid age we live in.

[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman🇬🇧🌳🟦 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Okay but Mulan was trans. Clothes = gender sweaty keep up.