Rolling 'this is sexist' thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAqSLx11ZfI‎

xp

on the other hand i think "do what a 17 y/o would do in a club in 1993 with a big bracelet on" is pretty good life advice

different personal styles work for different personal types. if i were to try to "peacock" i would look quite the moron, i feel. if someone likes you they will compliment your outfit regardless of what it is. i've gotten compliments on gray oxford shirts before.

*personality

everyone should try to peacock, the world needs more lols

basically I won't be satisfied until American society looks like the Capital in "The Hunger Games"

NB I did not buy a big bracelet. OTOH, I was single for a long time.

when i was a young man i spent a period wearing this huge, gross, greenish-black button front wool sweater (approx size of horse) and an elastic bracelet strung with multicolored plastic stars. girls would often talk to me about these fashion choice and occasionally ask me out as a result. i suppose in retrospect that i looked like something from build-a-bear workshop. so i shouldn't be too contemptuous of the strategy...

in my supposedly wiser years, i purchased a massive leather wristlet with a chunk of PBR can affixed (at the "punk rock flea market"), but could never quite bring myself to wear it. perhaps i've been missing out.

when I started dating my eventual wife, my most common mode of dress was wearing ripped flannel shirts over band t-shirts, Dockers, and either combat boots or mismatched Chuck Taylors (left foot black, right foot white)

by the time we got serious, I started wearing polo shirts more often, although I'd still break out the combat boots because hey, I gotta be me

the best outfit is a plain black t shirt and jeans.

with clarks desert boots. or at least, i like wearing that because it is totally neutral and i don't have to think about what i am wearing.

treeship otm. except my shoe game isn't very good. I need to peacock up.

haha yep those fashion choices are "totally neutral"

I used to approach clothes as a political statement that basically said "I am going to try my best to look homeless so that you will not be prepared for when my intellect tears your head off"

Now the statement I try to make with my clothes is "I did laundry"

maybe that should go on the aging support group thread

the main thing i know is that i look better with dark colors and get "washed out" by pastels.

I'll tell you what, let's smash the patriarchy and then get our colors done.

i mainly try to make sure my shirt and pants are not accidentally the same color

every now and then i wear a blue shirt with blue jeans or a tan shirt with khakis and then want to curl in a ball and hide for the rest of the day

let's smash the patriarchy and then get our colors done.

you know L when you say things like this, it makes me want to marry you

no more nail art till the patriarchy is 100% smashed

I really can't read "smash the patriarchy" without giggling now, thanks ILX

:D

I promise to take elmo as my lawful domestic partner whether he is a winter or a summer, in manicures and in pocket squares, for as long as we both shall go halvsies on a nice bungalow.

mmm, pastryarchy

Where we will hold #Occupy seminars and consciousness-raising sessions on every second Wednesday.

I was looking at some nail art the other day and then glancing at my own, bare fingernails and was a little sad, tbh

I'm also wondering if maybe the people who think they've met me before when I've talked to them downtown perhaps met Treeship but we both dress so generically so as to be identical

and also because i regularly lie and tell people that i am you

you shouldn't do that, people will mistake you for a sexist

i mainly try to make sure my shirt and pants are not accidentally the same color

― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:43 PM (38 minutes ago)

i mainly try to make sure that all black everything always forever

except socks. socks should look like ice cream.

took me a second to realize 'nail art' = fingernails, and not, y'know, art made out of nails

I've been negged tons of times and it usually backfires

pretty sure my sister got picked up by a PUA last weekend at the goth club. He was doing magic tricks and he kept putting his glasses on her and saying "You look so cute!" And they snogged, so I guess it worked.

Tbf you want real nails to make patriarchy smashing tools. It's not enough to scratch the patriarchy. Xp

I've reached the age where the direct approach works best.

Wish Laurel could do my Nomi Malone-esque revenge nails. I'll use them to scratch the patriarchy.

I dont think i've ever "approached" anyone with explicit romantic intent tbh

lol a soccer friend wrote a well-intentioned Abby Wamback piece the oth day which I stopped reading when I got to references to women athletes scratching and clawing their way to the top.

This is why I ditched the supporters' club, guys, in case you were wondering!

Speaking of being sexist.

really? i didn't know that.

I dont think i've ever "approached" anyone with explicit romantic intent tbh

this is absurd
you have never talked to a person/approached a person specifically because you found them appealing in a romantic way?
i can't believe that for 1 second

well anytime i find someone appealing in a romantic way i sort of stare at my shoes and try to remember to take breaths, until they go away

you're full of it too, mister

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4n51o1jot1qdye1ho1_r1_250.gif

Xp LL, i have done that, but not usually with an "end game" like, I want to take this person home/get their #. I was in a relationship for a reaaallly long time though, that ended very recently.

i think i only once set out with a long term plan to get into a relationship with a person i'd seen at a distance who look intersting. the plan mostly involved reading books at a bar we both frequented. it worked. thanks, Baader Meinhof gang!

what i do is i friend them on facebook and then post a lot of cool things to my feed, hoping that they'll notice how cool i am

hahaha yes

there shd be a PUA term for Facebook peacocking. i vote Facecocking.

Lol