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I - a bloke - sometimes paint my nails. If they're still painted when I go to work you can guarantee I'll get a few comments from guys questioning whether they "should be worried" around me*. Meanwhile, the few women who work there think it's wonderful and have offered to do them properly for me. _ *they needn't be worried. My standards aren't that low
When guys ask if they should be worried around you, do they expect women to be worried around them?
Yes. And women should be worried around them.
I'd be outright ostracised, casted out, spat on if I showed up with painted nails/eye shadow to work here in England
I'm also in England, though in the South, where we're all soft fairies.
And yeah, the response can be annoying, but the way I see it, I'm a gobby, fat, mostly-straight cis guy who's married to a woman, so the abuse I might receive is nothing compared to some others. So if I can go any way at all towards helping to normalise something as benign as painted nails on a straight man, then I will.
Why give so many fucks about style? Who cares what anyone thinks right? Shouldn't we all just dress comfortably and quit worrying about appearances? Focus on what matters? Meaning of course, our personalities and our humanity. People always wanna act like how we appear somehow matters. I hate vanity, which is why I dress plainly, rock a plain haircut, and don't "express" myself through visuals even though I would "get more pussy" if I catered to society's expectations. Instead I let my principles and morals shine through my actions, which actually have an impact on the world.