For you: drip protection for everyone!
Nowhere is it clearer than in the closet how complicated the gender debate actually is. As is well known, identification as a man or woman or everything in between does not magic away the physical facts. The textile industry has been working on gender-free fashion for a few years with little success, because the money is still made with the traditional images of women and men. The latest hype is gender-free lingerie, which makes sense because it gets to the root of the issue, so to speak. Boxer shorts without a textile bulge are actually not new (Kim Kardashian has been earning money with them for years with her Skims label), but of course they have the same effect when they are properly charged with identity politics: The fabric bag not only looks stupid when there is no penis in it, it also gnaws at the self-image! Another hype is period underwear that saves you the need for a tampon. The inclusive label Tomboy X now combines both with these so-called “leakproof trunks”, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that if it makes menstruators happy. That’s what people with a vagina should be called now, if some activists had their way. It should be noted that this term marginalizes people after menopause. Also, we’re already waiting for the next scandal, which is the unfair lack of leak-proof trunks for proud penis owners. As if only people with female genitals would drip! Identities really are good business.
For him: who gets the package?
It was only a matter of time before the big gender blurring reached even the smallest items of clothing. In this respect, the underwear is of course much more interesting and, above all, more tricky than parkas or overshirts, which can be relatively easily reinterpreted as unisex. But where the rest of the outfit can take on any shape or cover up today, underwear is concerned with the small difference between man, woman and divers in detail and even has to fulfill a certain functionality. In other words: Many a vision of completely neutral underpants shatters on the southern cliffs of the male anatomy. The hip manufacturer Boy Smells, whose range consists of perfumes, scented candles and an underwear collection entitled “Umentionables”, has decided to make the cuts, colors and sizes of its briefs unisex, but also to offer the “pouch-front” variation option. or allow “flat-front”. Loosely translated: There are Buxen with or without a package. At first glance, the lilac-colored lingerie on the drying rack in tomorrow’s gender-free household can no longer be directly assigned, but can still be secretly selected according to personal wearing comfort. Or according to the form of the day. Very praiseworthy. However, it also presupposes that the next generation of male readers is willing to deal with the internal or even external effect of their underwear at all. There could still be deficits.