The great Dr. Walter Williams often talks about the Sissification of America, whereby students are routinely being taught that failure is okay, backpacks should be lighter, and tests should be easier. There has also been a "metrosexual" movement, whereby men are supposed to be more sensitive and in touch with their feelings. Now, as the AP reports, some people want to put men in skirts. Andrew Bolton, associate curator of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art claims:

"I'm not trying to put all men in skirts. I just want to give them the freedom to wear a skirt if they want to. Women fought for years to wear trousers."
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"Men feel if they wear it (a skirt), their masculinity will be called into question. But if you've even seen a man in a skirt, the first thing you think of is male genitalia," he said. Roman gladiators, for example, proudly displayed their legs for all to see in short, skirted suits of armor as a sign of their virility.

Who wants to wear something that makes people think of male genitalia? And you can damn well bet any man who wears a skirt will have their masculinity called into question. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it might have something to do with the fact that skirts, not to be confused with a Scottish kilts, are worn primarily by women (and perhaps a few effiminate men).

In their defense, metrosexual men claim that they are only breaking society's norms. After all, wearing earrings and long hair used to be taboo. Are men who wear earrings and long hair any less of a man in today's society? In my humble opinion, yes, they are. I personally don't care if men dress up like women, wear earrings, make-up, dye their hair, or whatever. But I still think it makes you somewhat less of a man, and you shouldn't hold your breath waiting for me to do it. You don't see John Wayne or Clint Eastwood wearing a skirt, and you won't catch me in one either. While I might (and have) been tempted to do so as part of a theatrical production, that is altogether different than waking up in the morning and putting on a skirt and lipstick before I take the train to work.