Man Wears Skirt to School

As a stoic practice, being male, I wore a skirt to school everyday for three weeks Practice I went through a long process of reasoning before I decided that this was a virtuous thing to do. Looking back now I also realize it was a very stoic thing to do. First, within myself I recognized a fear of femininity and "womanliness." However, this misogyny is an irrational external impression. Why am I afraid of femininity? Why am I afraid of doing something that can be seen as "female"? Why would I let a piece of cloth threaten my masculinity and sense of identity. If my identity was this fragile then does not it deserve to be shattered? I realized that if I were to wear a skirt it would help me work through my fear of femininity. It may sound strange but it helped humanize women for me. For a long time, I had a subconscious idea that women are somehow "different" than me or "weaker" or more "vulnerable." I wanted to rid myself of these harmful external impressions. Wearing

A Reddit post describes a man wearing a skirt to school every day for three weeks as a stoic practice. He reasons that confronting his fear of femininity and challenging fragile ideas about masculinity can help him reject misogyny and humanize women. The joke comes from the overly serious philosophical justification for an ordinary piece of clothing, making it useful as an absurdly earnest reaction to overthinking or self-improvement. EN: A Reddit post describes a man wearing a skirt to school every day for three weeks as a stoic practice. He reasons that confronting his fear of femininity and challenging fragile ideas about masculinity can help him reject misogyny and humanize women. The joke comes from the overly serious philosophical justification for an ordinary piece of clothing, making it useful as an absurdly earnest reaction to overthinking or self-improvement.

• @pokupkabitka / 19846 2022-12-22