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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Trembling Eagle on September 12, 2008, 09:14:21 PM
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serious question
Why do adult human females wear these clothing items called skirts, and things on their feet that limit their ability to walk efficiently?
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somebody hit puberty, and cant stop talking about girl Girls GIRLS!
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/09/12/us/mccain_view_533.2.jpg)
serious question
Why do adult human females wear these clothing items called skirts, and things on their feet that limit their ability to walk efficiently?
Are you seriously suggesting that women shouldn't wear skirts and heels? What is wrong with you?
I, for one, love a feminine woman. Now, I love a woman in a nice pair of pants too. But dresses and skirts and heels should never be criticized.
I bet if you could have it your way, all females would look like that one lady wearing the pants suit in the center of that picture. The one without pigmentation. I think she might be dying.
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I can get heels because those things can really cause physical problems. Nothing wrong with skirts though... The first thing I thought when seeing that picture is that it looks staged (well, I guess it is) with all of their legs crossing and Whoopi crossing her legs on her calf like she's the rebel. I've never got the whole crossing the legs thing unless you're wearing a short skirt.... especially for men. It's not comfortable.
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The correct answer is "so they don't look like Whoopi".
Take your pick, Tremblin', I know which side of the fence us Earther's are standing.
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All these answers are from BOYS!
I actually find skirts to be more comfortable, and wear them more often. In the winter, I wear lots of layers underneath (tights, legwarmers, etc.
Pants cause horrible things like wedgies and camel toes. I wear them every now and then, but I always come back to the skirt. Plus, I feel pretty in a skirt.
Heels, however, nope. I wear them to weddings and nice events, and they make my legs look great, but they are not meant for trudging through the mud of upstate NY and VT
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You guys are missing my point about being an alien
I also want to know why the male human has that piece of cloth tied around its neck.
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If you're going to open that can of worms, why the fuck do humans have to wear clothes all the time? Especially when they live in warm climates? What exactly is the purpose of a thong? Why do men wear cummerbunds?
It's a losing battle.
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I miss Tommert.
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I think TE just smoke his first joint.
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You guys are missing my point about being an alien
I also want to know why the male human has that piece of cloth tied around its neck.
ties are most likely a descendant of simple scarves or neckerchiefs wore throughout history. traditionally neckties were literally used to tie the collar of your shirt closed, with the advent of button collars the tie stuck around as an accessory and has since entered our collective consciousness as part of a formal or professional look.
as for skirts I can only speculate that this tradition of females normally wearing dress type garments and males wearing pants developed over time from both sexes wearing open bottomed robes to men, probably as a descendant of military wear, adopting pants as regular clothing.
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Obviously they need to air out their testicles.
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I love skirts.
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But what about the skort?
Those just look ridiculous.
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The correct answer is "so they don't look like Whoopi".
They would be much more comfortable if they all dressed like Whoopi. Although a skirt can be the more comfortable choice in certain circumstances.
High heels are the devil's work. There was a segment on the local news last night about Heelarious, "her first high heels." Made me wish the Hadron Collider had done its work properly.
I've never got the whole crossing the legs thing unless you're wearing a short skirt.... especially for men. It's not comfortable.
It is for women. We don't do it only out of modesty.
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I've never got the whole crossing the legs thing unless you're wearing a short skirt.... especially for men. It's not comfortable.
It is for women. We don't do it only out of modesty.
That is so true, Sarah, it is for women, and very uncomfortable for men like me. That's why I never wear skirts, but only muumuus or long dresses so that I'm not forced into that uncomfortable position.
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I wear some form of skirt or dress 80% of the time, and heels (usually stilettos) always. The more you wear heels, the more comfortable they get. I know it's stupid, but gosh darn it, I just think they look sexy.
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Dear Six Year Old Alien,
It's all part of the patriarchy's social control apparatus.
Sincerely,
JJ2.0
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Wait, are high heels ISAs or RSAs? I guess ISA.
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I kind of don't know what to do with my legs except to cross them sometimes. It's like they're just sitting there.
Okay, that was stupid.
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That is so true, Sarah, it is for women, and very uncomfortable for men like me. That's why I never wear skirts, but only muumuus or long dresses so that I'm not forced into that uncomfortable position.
When you think about it, skirts make a great deal of sense for men. I've always thought having all those parts of yours scrunched up within a pair of trousers--or, worse, trousers plus undergarment--must be very unpleasant. Highlanders had the right idea, it seems to me.
High heels, on the other hand, make no sense for anybody. Though I'm not surprised you're finding them ever more comfortable, Susannah: supposedly when one wears them regularly, one's Achilles tendon tightens up, so walking barefoot or in flats becomes uncomfortable.
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If I wear heels, they're going to be super-comfortable (yes they do exist and I'm a big whiny baby with bunions and bad arches, so I'm not stretching the word "comfortable" here) and it's usually because I'm just too short for my clothes. It's cheaper to buy a pair of heels rather than shorten all my skirts or pants.
Skirts or dresses are just more comfortable than pants most of the time. At least the kind I wear... And, I think they're feminine and pretty and much more flattering for my figure than pants.
re: crossing your legs... at least for me, it becomes more comfortable to sit for long periods of time if I cross and uncross my legs. I can shift my weight around instead of having all the pressure on the center of my butt/spine.
(edit: I said "comfortable" too many times in this post. It makes me uncomfortable.)
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That is so true, Sarah, it is for women, and very uncomfortable for men like me. That's why I never wear skirts, but only muumuus or long dresses so that I'm not forced into that uncomfortable position.
When you think about it, skirts make a great deal of sense for men.
Hence my initial statement.
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That is so true, Sarah, it is for women, and very uncomfortable for men like me. That's why I never wear skirts, but only muumuus or long dresses so that I'm not forced into that uncomfortable position.
When you think about it, skirts make a great deal of sense for men.
Hence my initial statement.
i never understood the logic behind that idea
i'd rather have my um, private areas, contained.
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Not me, man! I want to let it all hang out!1!!
Also, no one asked, but when I was in high school I worked at the Capezio dance shoe store in Lawrenceville, NJ. I was the only dude there and one day we were all bored and decided to see if there was a pair of high-heeled tap shoes that would fit me. There were.
I want to say that's my last work story but really I've got about a dozen more - remind me to tell you about the time I bribed a New York City public official with a tall-boy of Bud.