For example workplace harrasment by women towards males like touching or groping being ignored because the victim is male but if it where to happen to a woman by a male the male would be fired

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      163·
      10 months ago

      “Girly” things are ok as a career, but not a hobby.

      If you’re a professional Tailor, it’s a respectable job that people seek you out for, but if you just like to sew…

      Chefs are predominantly male, but if you’re a guy that just likes to cook, “what are you, a housewife?”

    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      10 months ago

      For sure, and I appreciate that.

      They’re great skills, and if you watch a couple YouTube videos on making your own clothes, you’ll be shocked at how simple it is and how little time it takes.

      I feel very comfortable sewing and baking, this is just the best answers I have for the question.

    • aaaaace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      You can find a used machine to practice with and start by fixing and altering.

      Local indy sewing shops that I’ve encountered have been happy to advise and some have open sewing days.

      I fix my outdoors gear and clothes routinely, often with hand-stitching, just takes practice.

        • rekabis@lemmy.ca
          12·
          10 months ago

          I have a massive wingspan:weight ratio, so I always have to choose between sleeves being long enough on a shirt that’s 4x too big, or sleeves that end 3 inches short on a shirt that mostly fits.

          So you look like you just sauntered out of Auschwitz?

          <rant>

          You’re the reason why most shirts don’t fit me. I hate “slim fit” shirts, and anything fashionable is so slim fit you would have trouble fitting it over a skeleton or a 1,000-year-old Sahara-desiccated corpse. Why is your kind so common that the marketplace gets flooded with clothing that can only fit a famine victim?

          And I’m not obese in the least. I just have a 50-inch chest with a 36-inch waist. I have pecs, not some wafer-thin slabs of barely-there muscle that would have trouble bench-pressing an onion scape.

          About the only thing that fits me are 2XL tops that are regular or relaxed fit. Even jackets have gotten into the “reverse-vanity-sizing” madness that has recently beset Canada, with many “size 50” suit jackets really being a size 46 or even a 44.

          </rant>

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    • eyeon@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      even just knowing enough to not consider clothes ruined when a button pops out or a tear forms would be nice