All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing

[mikemeatball]

Originally Posted by goldengrain

I used to be repulsed at Catholic priests in their skirts and kilts, but these are things I have gotten used to and are perfectly normal and acceptable. I think discrete cross dressing could be accepted over time.
Good luck in finding women's plus sizes in today's restricted marketplace, though.

Nobody dress up like a Catholic priests to live in a college dorm.
If dress don't match environmental and cultural tradition, then being repulsed would be foreseeable.
There are some lines that normal people never transpass, here is one good example. There are certain things that people of mainstream society should never be ready.

[Ceece]

Originally Posted by AnUnidentifiedMale

I've never been into cross-dressing, but I can understand what it feels like when society tells you you're supposed to be a certain way and your gut tells you something different. It's easy to say "get on with life" when you've never had to deal with it.

EVERYONE has to deal with SOMETHING. And learning to "fit in" is a social skill that everyone needs to have just to get along in life. There are places you can be were the "fit" is different, and people certainly can choose to stay in them, but school and work and the majority of places are pretty much standard. It's not hard to figure out.

[that1guy]

Originally Posted by Ceece

EVERYONE has to deal with SOMETHING. And learning to "fit in" is a social skill that everyone needs to have just to get along in life. There are places you can be were the "fit" is different, and people certainly can choose to stay in them, but school and work and the majority of places are pretty much standard. It's not hard to figure out.

Fitting in is a social construct...by man. Thus, people have the power to change what the social norm is. Minorities were not allowed to "fit" in. We changed the social norms of America to allow minorities to "fit" in. Women were not allowed to "fit" in many places. We changed to allow women. Homosexuals and transgendered individuals should be allowed to fit in as well.

By definition, not everyone has to "fit" in...otherwise there is nothing to "fit" to. Even if everyone had to fit in, there are various degrees.

[city414]

Originally Posted by mikemeatball

All-male college cracks down on cross-dressing - CNN.com

prison?

[Patton360]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Children usually pick up the values of their parents and family because they do not have critical thinking skills or individuality.

Is that how you picked up your liberal viewpoints?

[city414]

Originally Posted by Patton360

Is that how you picked up your liberal viewpoints?

thats somewhat the truth

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by mikemeatball

Nobody dress up like a Catholic priests to live in a college dorm.
If dress don't match environmental and cultural tradition, then being repulsed would be foreseeable.
There are some lines that normal people never transpass, here is one good example. There are certain things that people of mainstream society should never be ready.

To me, it was just a matter of being around men in kilts and priests enough to overlook it and appreciate the people. After a while, it seems normal. Initially, it was weird, though.

There are boundaries, but we all have a different set of them. I don't think corporations should be able to fire people because of what they do in their private time, so long as they are not breaking laws, but they can. I think that makes us into slaves - so long as we are working we are not free.

My boundary is somewhere in the vicinity that if you are not hurting another, things are pretty much fine.

There are 'uniforms' and 'faces' we all put on in order to get on in society. I don't tell people what I think of them if they are jerks or butt kissers. I have to work with them.
I understand a dress code for work, and even in school because that prepares kids for a work environment. But at home and on personal time I think people should be given slack to express themselves as individuals.

I, a female, cannot say when the last time was when I wore a skirt. I am frequently dressing as men dress. I am not gay, but practical and like to be comfortable. I got 'dress up' out of my system years ago, but I can certainly understand the impulse and if some men do it out of an inner urge to be free or just as a joke, I can't see the harm in it.

Some people do weird things just for the shock value.