Everyone say hello to the jerk.... (that's me)

[hushdawg]

Some of y'all already know how famous (or infamous) I've inadvertently become in some communities.

It all started last summer over two simple posts.

Comments

[alixkat]

Was this on Jezebel? It sounds like something that would start on Jezebel, but from context it sounds like it happened over here on LJ.

I agree 100% about the clothing bits. When I teach, I need there to be clothing between you and the chair and I know it's hot, but there's this wonderful textile called LINEN. Embrace it, wear it, cover yourselves so you don't get skin cancer and age at 10x the normal rate. It's just a matter of self-respect. I once commented that I loved seeing my students in proper party dresses and not slits up to their eyeballs and tube dresses. The kid TA-ing for me said I was being "judgmental" and so on, and I said, "No, I'm just happy to see girls dressed like girls in respectable attire having fun and learning to be LADIES."

I used to wear leggings all the time IN MY HOUSE and when I was doing research, but no, they do not qualify as pants. They are glorified tights and everyone knows it. Truth.

I love this post and I think you're awesome for having the confidence to stick it out and say what you believe and the graciousness to apologise when you feel in your heart that you were a grade-A asshole, which I don't see, but maybe because I appreciate candor and not simpering, tiptoeing around semantics. Please.

Well done.

[hushdawg]

It was on a couple of customer service related communities here on LJ.

See, and the issue definitely doesn't stop with women. I understand that society puts women under a magnifying glass in this issue but I am not society; I'm looking at men equally.

A-shirts are meant to be worn UNDER clothes, they are not outerwear and don't count as a proper shirt.

If your shorts are so short or pants are so tight that I know the size of "the family jewels" then you need looser or longer clothes.

I cannot stand seeing a guy with his gut hanging out of his shirt. It's gross. I'm a big guy, to be sure, but there ARE clothes that fit, even at the thrift shop!

It's about decorum, self-respect and respect for others and has nothing to do with "body policing"