MAN THINGS

[bladespark]

I am manly enough to wear a skirt!

But honestly, mostly I am hot enough.

It's that time of the month, ugh. This means I can't do the "sit around in binder and boxers" thing, because boxers don't work with pads. I have a few pairs of briefs that do, but they're on the smaller side and TBH right now my chub is such that they don't fit. :P (Neither does my favorite binder and a couple of my favorite shirts, booo. On the other hand, the jeans that make my ass look AMAZING fit perfectly like this. Everything has trade offs! :D)

Anyhow. So I'm in gross period panties instead. But I don't want to sit around in gross period panties, they're full of holes and, well...gross! I generally don't wear shorts, I only own two pairs and they're both dirty.

So, skirt! I have a fantastic tie-dye skirt that's super light-weight and pretty much all my favorite colors, greens and blues and purples. So I'm in that.

That Time Of The Month tends to actually be super-masculine space for me because I am all "FUCK OFF UTERUS" extra strongly, whereas normally, eh, genderqueer, girlish in-between is fine. Just right now HELL NO, bleh.

So, MANLY SKIRT.

I mean, it's not manly in style or color. I could break out the kilts, but both are heavy fabric and it's SO FUCKING HOT. So the skirt. It's manly because I say so.

:D

Comments

[silveradept]

Skirts are entirely manly, especially in the great. I recall an article some time ago about bits drivers in France adopting them to beat the heat since their employer would not allow them to switch from trousers to shorts.

The skirt, as described, sounds like it looks good on you.

[the_siobhan]

Bits drivers is the best typo ever.

[silveradept]

It is. And that was with trying very hard to spot all the autocucumber, but naturally, one always gets away. These programs need to read my mind about what I want to put there and correct to that.

Bus drivers, autocarrot. Is it that hard?

[the_siobhan]

This legitimately made me crack up.

[silveradept]

Mission accomplished, then. It's funny, even if it is also aggravating.

[the_siobhan]

It's a manly skirt if a man is wearing it!

[adafrog]

So the skirt. It's manly because I say so.
lol Absolutely. *nods*

[leiacat]

In normal times my style is trousers 99% of the time (although pairing them with femme-cut if not femme-style shirts). So it is confusing the bugger out of me that in days of covid I'm digging out dresses and skirts from the back of my closet.

I suppose it's that short skirts are well-ventilated for when it's too hot, and ankle-length skirts are good for changing weather, and since I don't stray further than couch to lawn chair out back, absence of pockets is less painful... But that's just a guess on why I'm doing that. I normally think of myself as primarily pragmatic and secondarily mixed-gender-markers in my attire. I'm wearing a pretty floral dress now, because that's what felt like the thing to do this morning. I am perplexed at the workings of my brain.

[bladespark]

Brains are very strange and confusing things!