Dave

[Dave @Davevith]

@jess_ann_pin Please stop brining black people into arguments that don’t concern them. You just invite racist comments which black people then see.

If you need to use a race example, please just use white people.

[Dave @Davevith]

@fabledintime @tragic_endings_ But how can you express your gender through clothing if clothing isn’t gendered?

[Dave @Davevith]

@GroomedByDess Again, you people using black people as a human shield and throwing them under the bus.

[Dave @Davevith]

@blue99dragon Because they feel more comfortable in their masculinity so they feel they can let their femininity show.

[Dave @Davevith]

@lucilleSpilled @lighthouseace They are a sexual symbol.

[Dave @Davevith]

@fancy44minute @lighthouseace Why would that help? A man could still tell a woman has a small child… because she’d be carrying a small child.

[Dave @Davevith]

@lighthouseace Boobs are a sexual signal.

Probably only in humans because we walk on two legs so a sexual signal to the front was evolutionary advantageous.

This is completely amoral, it’s not ‘good’ or ‘bad’ it just is.

[Dave @Davevith]

@prognaz @Mightie836 @tragic_endings_ Your comment doesn’t follow anything anyone here has said?

[Dave @Davevith]

@gryffindorcxnt @fabledintime @tragic_endings_ Agreed. But as social animals, those “cultural norms” are an incredibly relevant and powerful factor in how people dress.

To all intents and purposes, clothing IS gendered.

[Dave @Davevith]

@averagejoeatgym @socsoyboy @grok are bisexual men more likely to engage in high risk sexual behaviours? And do they have more sexual partners than straight men?

[Dave @Davevith]

@OntologicMR @socsoyboy I don’t doubt that you are a person.

I hope that helps ease any existential angst you may be suffering from.

[Dave @Davevith]

@willowsreyb @tragic_endings_ I agree. He probably likes wearing women’s clothes.

[Dave @Davevith]

@Vormaerin @Nyjah_97 @stfusini @tragic_endings_ Obviously there’s nothing intrinsically ‘female’ about a skirt. Obviously society ascribes meaning to to clothing. Though intangible, that meaning still matters.

So yes, clothing is, for all practical purposes, gendered… obviously.

[Dave @Davevith]

@AJMattis @stfusini @tragic_endings_ A government can legislate against an act quite easily. Agreed you can’t do it at a local level.

Why? Because I think the laws, though well intentioned, cause more harm than good. They are deeply authoritarian. But that’s hard to see if you are within the hegemony.

[Dave @Davevith]

@Arbeitologist Agreed. Have a good one!

[Dave @Davevith]

@iris69_96 @stfusini @tragic_endings_ This is a very abstract take. In reality clothing carries a lot of social meaning.

I’d only restrict cross dressing in environments with children. Other than that, organisations should be allowed to set their own rules.

[Dave @Davevith]

@iris69_96 @stfusini @tragic_endings_ Correct. I’m not a radical feminist.

[Dave @Davevith]

@MountainMcRae It is in the initial stages of dating where investment is low. You could invest further time with a high risk potential partner, or you could move onto someone else.

Also, this is emotion, not logic. Once the ‘ick’ is there, it’s there.

Check the stats on HIV prevalence.

[Dave @Davevith]

@Hontas_Farmer @datadriven_tdoc This one does, but many, many don’t. They are obviously squares. They look like squares, they act like squares yet we are coerced into to pretending that they are triangles.

[Dave @Davevith]

@loonarian_ @socsoyboy I guess because the UK had a strong leftist feminist base who stood up for women.