Dress Code? What Dress Code?

Was reading this article off the Sydney Morning Herald website where a man, dressed as a woman, was denied entry into Star City Casino.

Now the man in question said that they "were going into the main gaming room and a guard placed his hand on my shoulder and said: 'you are known here as a man, you are not appropriately dressed, I have to ask you to leave,"

Known as a man? Love that line…I’m “known” as a women but I wouldn’t be calling me a lady.

Than it was said that the two were dressed inappropriately ("wearing an extremely short skirt that barely covered his groin region, white underwear and garters … were visible").

So either they don’t like men in dresses (revealing or otherwise). I’m sure you could walk around Star City and see a number of women dressed in what security, above, has deemed inappropriate.

What if the man above didn’t “see himself as a woman” and was just a man who bought a nice frock and wanted to wear it out? It’s weird to see a man in a dress but that is only because we have been brought up in a society that teaches us that women can wear whatever they want but men have to wear “male” orientated clothing.

“Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
cause its ok to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
cause you think that being a girl is degrading”
(Madonna – What it Feels like for a Girl)

There are quite a few countries that have male customs were they wear robes or kilts…these are not seen as dresses? I know most kids would point to a Scot in a kilt and ask, “Mummy, why is that man wearing a skirt?” and mummy would reply, “That’s not a skirt, that’s a knit.” Helping to enforce societies teachings that “real” men don’t were women’s clothing (a kilt is “mans” clothing…“we’re men, manly men. We’re men in tights, tight tights”). What about all those Romans…parading around, showing off their legs?

So the matter is going to be taken to a tribunal, but wait…"The Anti-Discrimination Act does not protect transvestites, it protects transsexuals, but you said you live as a woman. Before the tribunal can hear the case what you have to be able to prove to the court is that sexually you are a transsexual."

What the fu*k does that have to do with anything?

If a woman was refused entry for dressing inappropriately and complained how would she be dealt with? Does a man have to be deemed a transsexual before being allowed to wear a dress in public?

I wear what I want…why can’t everyone else? It’s not like these places actually enforce their dress codes in the first place. No singlets…unless you’re a woman with your tits out. No thongs or sandals…have you seen women’s footwear?

P.S Got a bit depressed last post, which I now know is because that afternoon I came down with a virus that left me in bed for a few days and I’m still trying to get over it.

I have a more positive out look these days…I swear…lol