Amanda
Calm as a Hindu cow
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WTF? I've never seen that except when the bagpipe corps comes by in a parade or at a Renaissance festival and even in those cases it would have been a very small percentage compared to the number of people involved. Where do you get "a lot" from?
I think she meant a lot as in not just within the confines of the U.S.
Not only that, but many people here wear them as part of their everyday wardrobe, Allie lives in some secluded place where they are not effected by fashion trends. We have a store just a block from where I live that sells them as well, they make a fortune. Changing the name doesn't change the fact that they are skirts.
Also, throughout history, in the 1600's everyone with money wore dresses, and all the poor wore pants and blouses (they didn't have teeshirts back then). Also all the men wore really womanly looking headresses and wigs. Seriously ... it's fucking clothes. Thank your lucky stars they aren't asking where babies come from at age 3 and get over yourself. Wearing certain clothing doesn't magically change their gender. When I was young I had to go into the "boys" department a lot, because you just can't have a flowing dress on when working with machines, not a good idea. Luckily my father didn't see the world so black and white, in spite of being a redneck, he though everyone should wear jeans (now they do but meh) and teeshirts and live on ranches. So again, what is the difference between "male" clothes and "female" clothes?
Since you weren't around in the 1600's and you said you saw it a LOT I'd like some clarification on what you think "a lot" is. I see "a lot" of people everyday and none of the men are in dresses or skirts or anything of the kind. I'd like to know "a lot" applies to this alleged horde of male cheerleaders too. On any given squad I've never seen more than 2 and they weren't in skirts so I'm not even sure their official designation was "cheerleader".
I won't dispute that there probably are men that wear skirts outside of drag shows and maybe some male "cheerleaders" think of themselves as cheerleaders, but "many"? "a lot"? WTF does that mean?
I suspect you're using vague terms so the weakness of the case you're trying to make can't be easily scrutinized but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.