958 - Also what's the deal with kilts, while we're at it?

[maarvarq]

I didn't find any of the (very few) times that I've cross-dressed to have been all that liberating.

[Dizzles]

It's taken me all this time of reading your comic to realize just how LONG your characters' fingers are.

[Bing]

That is not an adam's apple, it's a goiter.

I wear a kilt and I have never pooped on the floor!

[ExPostNinja]

I wear a kilt and I have never pooped on the floor!

I wish I was Scottish enough to wear a kilt. (I am most decidedly not.) Skirts are, without exception, my favorite kind of leg covering to wear - they're freeing, comfy, and flexible.

[Woock]

That is not an adam's apple, it's a goiter.

I wear a kilt and I have never pooped on the floor!

I should not have clicked that.

[jocaypa]

That is not an adam's apple, it's a goiter.

I wear a kilt and I have never pooped on the floor!

I should not have clicked that.

Seconded. Like, warnings, please!

Also... isn't crossdressing in public kind of... embarrassing? While I do see the point Max is trying to make, I'm pretty sure "passing as a girl" is less embarrassing than "wearing feminine clothing in public"... unless you're a girl. Or trans. Or etcetcetc. You get my point.

I mean... crossdressing at home is one thing. I'd even argue that if you want a place to understand female clothing and your relationship with it, that's a primo spot. Yeah, you won't get the full experience unless you do it in public, but... whatever. Crossdressing in public, though... That can even be dangerous. Like, get hurt/fined kind of dangerous. I would only do it if i were with friends or something... even then I'd have to think it twice.

Speaking of which... controversial question! Do you think it's easier for women to crossdress in public than it is for men nowadays?

[masterofbones]

controversial question! Do you think it's easier for women to crossdress in public than it is for men nowadays?

That's controversial? It is obviously easier for women to crossdress than men. They do it all the time. Short hair, pants, tie, etc. All menswear, all extremely common for women to wear. Almost any employer anywhere will allow a woman to wear pants. Now compare to the employers who are okay with their employees wearing skirts. Current society says that it is fine for women to wear male clothes, but weird for men to wear women's clothes.

[Killjoy]

When I went to college, in the early-mid 90s, there was a straight couple who BOTH wore tuxes to formal events.

[Tem]

I mean... crossdressing at home is one thing. I'd even argue that if you want a place to understand female clothing and your relationship with it, that's a primo spot. Yeah, you won't get the full experience unless you do it in public, but... whatever. Crossdressing in public, though... That can even be dangerous. Like, get hurt/fined kind of dangerous. I would only do it if i were with friends or something... even then I'd have to think it twice.

Speaking of which... controversial question! Do you think it's easier for women to crossdress in public than it is for men nowadays?

Yeah, dressing like a woman in public is dangerous, because being a woman in public is dangerous. All the precautions you would take when planning to disguise as woman in public are precautions that are recommended to women. Perhaps if you did crossdress in public, you might get a somewhat authentic experience of how it feels to be a woman. With regards to the permanent danger, at least.
Of course, it is not a good idea for reasons of personal safety. If I had a choice, I would not be a woman 90% of the time. It's not really safe.

No, it is not easier for women to crossdress. Women cannot crossdress. (That is, in civilised Europe, et cetera) There are no clothes a woman can wear that make the people around her treat her like a man. (I first wrote "believe her to be a man", but it is not as if male crossdressers often fool people, either - it is just that people bow to the expectation to pretend that the man is a woman if he is in full make up and wears a dress.)

Women can wear trousers, but that's not crossdressing, it is just dressing.

Women can, occasionally, be mistaken for men, but this is usually not due to any intentional effort - the friends I know have been mistaken for men just wore neutral clothes.

... okay, I am being unfair; if a woman wore the clothes of a Catholic priest, that'd be crossdressing, and it would be met with all the outrage directed at crossdressing women in uncivilised countries.

[MakorDal]

Come on... the bad white hetero Catholic man is not out to jump on you. Well most of them are not, to be honest and in some part of EU, being a woman in the improper attire might be dangerous - but those places supposedly don't exist and white man are as much in danger there as any woman.
Please, the sacrosanct "do not amalgam terrorist and muslim" should also work with "assaulter" and "white man"...
Concerning your priest costume idea : if you go out of your way to mock a lot of people belief, some are bound to react. The same way you probably would if you saw someone make fun of something so close and defining to you... It's not them being intolerant of your armless joke. It's them being intolerant of your intolerant joke.

But be reassured : if they assault you, they will be judged harsher for assaulting a woman than you would for assaulting them. At least in most of western EU.

PS : in most of "the west", a woman wearing trousers has not been subversive since 1980 at least.