Thanks for this! I was lucky as a child born in 1953 that my mother had grown up wearing overalls when not in school or somewhere formal. As a preschooler I never wore dresses except when "dressed up" for whatever reason. I wore skirts in school, of course, because I was out of high school before that changed, but I changed into pants as soon as I got home.
I had friends, many of whom are still my friends, but we never "performed femininity" (wonderful phrase!) I think, looking back at grade school and junior high, that that was the quality about the girls who weren't my friends (many of them I liked, but we weren't friends) that put me off.
For the decades that I've worked with dogs I've mostly worn scrubs. Away from work, I mostly wear pants in cold weather and skirts in hot weather, though I do wear shorts. I am so oblivious to flirtatious behavior that I haven't noticed any difference.
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Date: 2015-04-04 11:42 pm (UTC)I was lucky as a child born in 1953 that my mother had grown up wearing overalls when not in school or somewhere formal. As a preschooler I never wore dresses except when "dressed up" for whatever reason. I wore skirts in school, of course, because I was out of high school before that changed, but I changed into pants as soon as I got home.
I had friends, many of whom are still my friends, but we never "performed femininity" (wonderful phrase!) I think, looking back at grade school and junior high, that that was the quality about the girls who weren't my friends (many of them I liked, but we weren't friends) that put me off.
For the decades that I've worked with dogs I've mostly worn scrubs. Away from work, I mostly wear pants in cold weather and skirts in hot weather, though I do wear shorts. I am so oblivious to flirtatious behavior that I haven't noticed any difference.
Mary Anne in Kentucky