I can get away with wearing mens tops and shoes, but my hips are too fabulous for mens pants to look good on me. So I gotta settle for women’s pants.

So I’m currently doing field work for Ecology so I need to get PRACTICAL WORK PANTS WITH LOTS OF POCKETS.

Meanwhile women’s clothing shops are like “UwU, work clothes for women? You mean these business pants with no pockets?” There are no other kinds of workwear for women IN THE WORKWEAR SECTION.

No motherfucker I mean cargo pants with all the pockets and belt loops. I’m going out in the bush. I need pockets for extra batteries and I need belt loops to hook a satellite GPS to. Fuck.

Look at this sexist bullshit. Here is the women’s workwear section:

Here is the men’s workwear section, same store:

Apparently all women work in offices and all men work physical labour jobs and fuck you if you deviate from your assigned role in life.

FUCK GENDER ROLES AAAAA IT’S 2024 AND THEY’RE STILL DOING THE FUCKING NO POCKETS THING bird-screm-2

EDIT: Thank you comrades for all the suggestions on where to shop. Care-Comrade

  • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Just as a sidebar, the reason why office work jobs have a gender-divide regarding the temperature is due to sexism.

    The standard office temperature was based on what was ideal for a man like half a century ago. AMAB people tend to run a bit warmer due to metabolic reasons and men were/still are expected to wear heavier clothes that provide full coverage of their bodies. Going back to the 50s or the 70s, men overwhelmingly had the “ideal” office spots - corner and side offices often with fairly large windows so there’s more sun exposure.

    Women were/often still are expected to wear lighter clothes with less coverage of their bodies—compare a typical work blouse to a typical button-up shirt—and the majority were relegated to secretarial sort of work and the office pit, where you’re probably in the centre part of the office.

    So you’ve got a situation where most offices cater to the needs and circumstances of men, making the typical office temperature unreasonably cold for women.

    What an awesome society! Trashing the environment just so that men can look refined and dignified while women are expected to choose between looking pretty and suffering for it, or dressing practically for their office work conditions and, naturally, suffering in other ways for that.

    Of course this is not on the level of Qing Dynasty foot binding but there’s a vast, globe-spanning cultural expectation that women ought to physically suffer due to societal standards of beauty and modesty across history, and this phenomenon of the office of today being uncomfortably cold for women sits very neatly within that history.