Is it fair that American men wear baggy swimsuits while women wear microkinis?

[MatureDJ]

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/...d_to_get_over_their_fear_of_wearing_swim.html

American women have never presented themselves with more over-the-top va-va-voom than they do now, especially on the beach. Bikinis have never been smaller. Hoochies have never been hotter. Tramp stamps have never been trampier. It’s obviously time for men to correct this inequity, join the partaay, and start channeling their inner Magic Mike … or inner Borat.

 

[Bokanovsky]

Why do you always post articles from feminist rags like Slate and The Atlantic? Just curious.

 

[Warrior74]

Is it fair that people have choices? Apparently not.

 

[Wolfgang D]

Okay MatureDJ, I'll explain this to you. Men wear baggy swimming trunks because if we wear briefs our genitals are showing like a lump. People are instinctively disgusted by seeing genitals in public as genitals and anal orifices are a source of unsanitary body fluids. We can handle the sight in small doses when it comes to our partners, but not when it comes to a mass of strangers. And even with our partners we cover up except in bed.

At the same time the sight of genitals brings the thoughts to sex, and we don't want sex to be ever-present. It leads to competition and jealousy and conflict.

I guess you want to imply that the "patriarchy" as you call it makes women wear tighter bikini bottoms as a way to "oppress" women. Funny how both hiding women in long robes like in the Middle East, or "forcing" them to wear bikinis - the opposite - are examples of "oppression" to you feminists. It doesn't work when the audience knows real psychology though.

You also left out the fact that men's chests are bare at the beach. If less cloth at the beach is a sign of oppression, shouldn't men wear t-shirts or even long shirts, while women are made to go naked? But since that doesn't fit your feminist "oppression" theory, you conveniently leave it out.

 

[Mike32ct]

This is an article about a gay guy checking out men's junk.