This shit has to stop.

[lettucethesallad]

Sandals are sandals. Skirts are skirts. You don't call pants Woman pants just because they were traditionally a male thing to wear. It's ridiculous. Now I think people should be allowed to wear whatever, no matter what their gender is. Giving it another name because it's on a person of a different gender is stupid.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I'll be honest, when I saw 'mewlery' I thought cats. Not even really jewelry for cats or anything, I just assumed it was feline-related rather than to do with bling.

All the others are just really lazy euphemisms for unsold, rebranded crap being marketed to a new audience.

 

[M-E-D The Poet]

Sandals are sandals. Skirts are skirts. You don't call pants Woman pants just because they were traditionally a male thing to wear. It's ridiculous. Now I think people should be allowed to wear whatever, no matter what their gender is. Giving it another name because it's on a person of a different gender is stupid.

No, just no

Woman's jeans/pants are specifically designed with women in mind
That emo boys choose to wear those pants from time to time and then turn to call them skinnies for example is something completely different.

 

[Monkeymaniac]

While I agree that the words are stupid as fuck, I disagree with the notion that there are clothes that a dude can't wear because then suddenly he's not a MAN anymore.

If you're so unsure of your own gender that you need to use CLOTHING to establish it, maybe it's time to get some therapy.
Juuuuust sayin'.

 

[Android2137]

Mirts? What's wrong with calling them kilts?

 

[Russian_Assassin]

What the FAWK? Just admit it that you are gay and be done with it! There is no need to... wha... GAH! I can't even comment correctly on this, my brain is full of fuck!

Also, why not call them kilts? Oh I know, because kilts are actually for MEN. Although on reflection, who is it to say what we can and can't wear. My problem with this is how they present it. Like calling it a murse will make you into something other than a MAN with a PURSE. Either admit it or gtfo.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

And not just with the "mirts," or "mankini," and the dreaded "man-bag" but the retarted combination of words. Like "staycation." Its not a stay at home vacation. It means your fuckin broke. That garbage is worse than everything having to be "PC" (politically correct for those of you who might not know)

I cracked up a little bit at this one. Ah yes, the "staycation" - the new sign of our economic times. A trendy way to announce that you have time off work but no money to leave your shitty little hometown.



In all honesty, I have taken purposeful "stay at home" vacations with my wife before, but that's mainly because we hate traveling. It's usually just time off together where you go out to eat 2-3 meals out of the day and drink too much.

Which is shockingly like my "vacations" when I leave home, except I'm on the beach.

You know, what bugs me about that term is, when it was first introduced, the local media was using it to describe not just stay at home vacations, but any vacation taken in one's home state. Which, I'm sorry, but how freakin' rich do you have to be to live in one of the vacation destination states for the entire world, and to be able to regularly say "oh, I don't feel like the beach/the woods/Universal Studios/Disneyland this year, let's go to Monte Carlo," let alone for it to be such a matter of course that doing any one of the four things I listed is considered a down-grade from what you normally do?

Other than that, words don't really bother me, although that picture of a man who isn't Tim Curry but is wearing panty hose isn't exactly what I wanted to see first thing in the morning. I think I need to go to a midnight showing of Rocky Horror to get the image out of my mind.

 

[Dogstile]

What!!! Someone dares to enjoy a fashion sense that I expressive hate being stuck in a 19 century view on gender roles and the way they should dress!? Clearly this shit must stop, because how dare men choose to dress different!

Because of how bored I am, i'm gonna pretend I didn't see the joking part of that because I have a point to make regarding it and I can't be arsed to go through the thread to find someone who's actually said that, so person I quoted, stop reading here if you want, you're not missing anything.

But isn't it funny that every time someone complains about a man looking like an idiot in woman's clothing, somebody comes out and calls the person close minded because of it. Why can't we point out that if you wear a skirt in public and you are a man, you look like a twat because it makes you look like that, not because you're wearing a skirt.

And no. Men should never wear pantyhose. Fuck that shit. MY EYES ARE SCARRED YOU DAMN ESCAPISTS .

 

[blackened_skye01]

greatest reply i've read all day

 

[jopomeister]

All I have to say is this:

 

[blackened_skye01]

greatest comment i've read all day

 

[Project_Omega]

Rant incoming.

This. http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/beauty/mankinis-murses-and-man-bags-a-glossary-of-mens-fashion-terms-2550341#photoViewer=6

This has to stop.

And not just with the "mirts," or "mankini," and the dreaded "man-bag" but the retarted combination of words. Like "staycation." Its not a stay at home vacation. It means your fuckin broke. That garbage is worse than everything having to be "PC" (politically correct for those of you who might not know)

Ill give you a run down of the worst for those that dont feel like rotting their brain by clicking on the link.

And feel free to post your own most hated word combinations.

Mandals = Man sandals
Murse = Man purse
Mewlery = Man jewlery
Meggings = Man leggins
Marfists = Man scarfs
Mantyhose = Man pantyhose
Manties = Man panties
Mirts = Man skirts
Meels = Man heels

I blame the society, as always.

 

[Brittain95]

You know what you must do. You must nuke LA right off the map. This is where these terms came from. Now destroy it and become one with the darker dark side.

Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Fuck it nuke the whole damn planet if thats what its come to!

 

[Brittain95]

You know what you must do. You must nuke LA right off the map. This is where these terms came from. Now destroy it and become one with the darker dark side.

Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure

Fuck it nuke the whole damn planet if thats what its come to!

I shall muster the Rohirrim.

We shall ride before nightfall!

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Out of that entire list, the only thing I have ever heard of was a Murse. And even then I thought that was just a male nurse.

I'm pretty sure that a murse is a male nurse, which is a perfect example of the morons in this fashion shit making up words and declaring 'these are parts of our language now, it is so'. Also...

I shall muster the Rohirrim.

I adore this post.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

Huh. I don't see any problem with the items themselves. If the author was concerned for the generation of terminology, then yes, it seems ridiculous. Men can wear sandals, scarves, and panties, and there is no reason to call them something else. The terms for the items are not gender specific, only our production and marketing are gender specific.

 

[dietpeachsnapple]

I'm with the majority I think.

Sure guys, wear handbags, scarves, heels and skirts, but they're not man anything. They're just what they are, adding 'man-' doesn't fool anyone.

No-one has seen anyone women wearing 'femtrousers' right?

After posting, I went scouring the thread for someone whom had a similar thought as myself, and I have found you.

I offer you my congratulations of retaining your composure and sensibilities in these rampant times of flaming.

Good day sir.

 

[honestdiscussioner]

This has nothing to do with being "Politically Correct", it's marketing. No one is going to call you a bigot for referring to them as "men's sandals". Now I have no desire to wear any of these things, but that's another issue.

I will defend the "staycation" however. While it is usually done to save money, the entire thing of what a staycation is isn't "being broke". There are many things around where a person lives that they never do or see. For example, I used to live in [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doylestown,_Pennsylvania"]Doylestown, PA[/a] . . . and when my girlfriend and I had a staycation, we'd go to the local museums, try a restaurant we haven't tried before, and just lived the good life for a few days.

There is nothing wrong with that.