pantsed.

Isn't it funny how women can wear both pants and skirts and be entirely socially acceptable but a man who wears a skirt is a freak?

And isn't it funny, too, how women can read men's and women's literature and be entirely socially acceptable, but a man who reads both is kind of a freak?

So if you're a woman and you want to be read by men, you better goddam well stop wearing skirts, is I guess what is to be taken from this lesson.

Because to think that you could keep wearing your skirts and still get the men to read you is to -- well, it's just unthinkable.  It doesn't happen.

Does it?

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Sadly, I was getting a lot, BUT A LOT, of spammy comment-attempters, for whatever lame reason about which I care not, so I have to close the comments.  Stupid spam-artists.

Comments

[roo]

Hmm. Just like how Patricia Gaffney and Diana Gabaldon and the like write what is known as "women's fiction," but apparently Tom Clancy et all are not merely writers of "men's fiction."

I think the truth of the matter is that the men who are least likely to be okay being seen wearing a skirt are also the least likely to read for pleasure. Maybe because they're stupid.

Although i agree with you, that those guys are more likely to take at least a superficial interest if you take your skirt off for them.

Hm. This sounds bitter. ..

[kelly]

I think the best readers are non-gender specific actually. Although, even as I write that I wonder how many males readers actually read Atwood or Winterson, who are feminist writers. But, shit probably a lot because they just nail it with each sentence.

As for the skirts, we Americans have nothing on the Irish and the Scotts, it seems.

[Kathi D]

So I'm thinking it's good to be a woman.

[aunt penni]

Are you kidding? The best way that I can get a guy to do anything is to wear a skirt. ;)

[BHJ]

I don't get it. I don't think this is right.

[Neil]

I learned my love for female writers from my mother when I was a child, because she used to read those Judith Krantz type books like Princess Daisy, and I used to go through them to find the sex scenes on page 124, and they were very hot, and I realized that women had perverted minds, just like men, and I started to actually read the books to see what was IN those minds, and it has been like that ever since. I would not wear a skirt because I have scrawny, hairy legs.

[Gwen]

Have you forgotten the Scottish? They seem to feel the most manly when they have their skirts on (and I would know, oh yes I would, having had the drunkest of them falling over Lucy when we were in Amsterdam).

You've stopped wearing skirts, then? (I mean, I'm guessing, based on your vast male readership and all)

I wonder who Norman Mailer would list as his influences, if asked whom his favorite writers are. It's hard to imagine him referencing Jane Austen, isn't it? But you, my dear, have your own bias towards male authors of the old and dead variety, do you not? Let's discuss.

[Suebob]

You know, I was just thinking about this today as I brushed my teeth. I thought: when men can dress in women's clothing and not be ridiculed, we will have true equality. So there.