toxic masculinity

Several of you contacted me with a link to this article all the way back in January, so I knew I had to read it and post about it, but it’s only being published today because I had a long list of other links that were already scheduled to be published.

This is a brief, but interesting article from 2022 about an experiment done with the author’s group of male friends and having them wear skirts.

Why is there the perception amongst the uninformed that men are just wearing gender-non-conforming clothes for their own sexual pleasure?

A few days ago, I came across a thread on one of the “men in skirts” forums I frequent that discussed whether it is illegal to wear skirts as a man in Italy. There were no solid conclusions which made me curious, so I did some research of my own and this is what I found.

This is a great article about how the norms of masculinity are changing to be more inclusive and less toxic and the fact that a lot of women find men like that hot.

This article is an interesting discussion about gendered clothing. It uses men in skirts as an example to illustrate the pointlessness of it.

In this post, I talk about the only negative experience I have ever had wearing a skirt as a man in public and how I coped with it.

This is an excellent post detailing the author’s slow journey into more feminine clothing. He discusses his experiences in public as well as how he worked up the courage to wear less subtly feminine outfits out in public over time.

I decided to run an experiment on myself to see how I would feel leaving all skirts, heels and other gender non-conforming clothing out of my wardrobe. The experiment was simple enough: go a week with only wearing “normal” men’s clothing.

This post explores some of the questions that arise for men who like to wear skirts and have young sons in the country.