Jaden Smith is in the news again for modelling a skirt in a Louis Vuitton ad. They've worn skirts before, but I won't bother with the links and references because Google exists for a reason. I am assuming they will again, and hope that the day will come that it won't be news.
Aside: Yes, I meant THEY. We have been using "you" for singular and plural for how long? (Except for "y'all", which is also blessedly neutral.) So IMHO, a neutral third person is long overdue.
(Men used to wear skirts/dresses/robes all the time, nearly everywhere. (Except in cultures where they wore trousers, and in those cultures women often wore trousers, too.) Kilts, tunics, houppelandes, gowns, cassocks -- call them what you will, but they were all skirts in one form or another. Agamemnon. Alexander the Great. Jesus of Nazareth. Julius Caesar. Charlemagne. Jamie Fraser. (Okay, he's not real, but didn't he look fine in a skirt?) Skirt-wearing dudes for millennia.
People should wear skirts -- and/or trousers -- when they need or want to wear them. I am a trousers-in-cold-weather, skirts-in-hot-weather sort of person. I do break that rule, of course, because it is NOT A RULE, just a pattern.
The next question should be whether or not everyone who wears a skirt needs to shave their legs. (I vote no.)
People should wear skirts -- and/or trousers -- when they need or want to wear them. I am a trousers-in-cold-weather, skirts-in-hot-weather sort of person. I do break that rule, of course, because it is NOT A RULE, just a pattern.
The next question should be whether or not everyone who wears a skirt needs to shave their legs. (I vote no.)
