• bryophile@lemmy.zip
    262·
    8 hours ago

    Everyone believes they’re choosing freely, especially when they’re choosing what their culture taught them to want.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      5 hours ago

      am i freely choosing to wear pants or just indoctrinated by the society i was raised in? if i moved somewhere they donald duck it would i assimilate or continue to wear pants?

      i know suit guys who will dress up even if they’re not leaving the house and that’s real weird to me but it’s not muddied by being imposed on an axis of oppression or whatever.

      • Azzu@leminal.space
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Clothing (pants) is very much not natural and indeed only enforced by society. If one knows about various indigenous people around the world, one knows pants are not universal.

        I actually, in this heat, would love not to have to wear pants or anything really. I’m naked at home all the time. However, if I went outside it’d be indecent.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I generally wear what’s most comfortable for me. Sometimes I’ll “dress up” for stuff where it’s socially still “required” like job interviews or weddings, but even that is rare for me.

      • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
        12·
        3 hours ago

        Yet you don’t wear 16th century Shakespearean clothes to work because you don’t live in 16th century England

        • Ariselas@piefed.caEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          You must be at a boring workplace, we have several goths and one lady who daily wears renaissance era clothing and is big on renaissance fairs and medieval combat.

          If it’s not a health and safety risk, who cares. I mean flip flops and a budgie smuggler are not appropriate to wear on a factory floor.