It's Got Pockets!
?? Amy Stokes-Waters
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It's FRIDAY! I'm a FEMINIST! Which means only one thing.. it's ? FEMINISM FRIDAY ? . This week, we've enlisted the talents of our favourite pocket historian Jemma ??♀? to teach us all about why the fuck women don't have any pockets...
Pockets ruin the line of a garment…… the lack of pockets is a marketing ploy to get women to buy handbags…….. Is it though??
Did you know that the handbag came before the pocket, and both men and women carried them? Think coin purse, if you will.?
As we moved through history, we realised we didn’t need to carry them separately and began sewing coin purses to our clothes. Mens were sewed handily to what would become the pocket region, and womens were somewhat unhandily sewed to their undies.?
Why though?! So we’d ask the men to look after our money and lipsticks? A little bit.?
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Women couldn’t be trusted to not run away from the men folk, so to make us less likely to get ideas above our station, they made our pockets hard to reach. The men also didn’t like the idea of us collecting salacious pamphlets or propaganda on how to be strong independent women. Go figure.?
Skip forward a few hundred years, and here we are, all pocketless and so excited to show the world our pockets when gifted them. We’re conditioned from childhood to be pocketless. Go forth and rummage through toddler clothes and notice clothes designed for males have more pocket square footage than your favourite jeans!?
It has been argued that the pocket freedom we are afforded directly correlates to our social freedom levels. Oh yes. You heard me. Society believes toddlers should have more freedom than a fully grown adult trying to stuff their belongings into an outfit designed for the female form.?
Are we up in arms about this? No. We proudly show our pockets to anyone who shows a fleeting interest in what we are wearing, declaring loudly “Look at this dress! It’s got pockets!”
Women of Feminism Friday, I urge you, rise up and demand the pockets! Collect the pamphlets. Declare your independence. Make pockets the norm. Be free.
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6 个月Exactly the reason i wear mens jeans. More places to stuff my delicate tissues and receipts ??
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6 个月Most things I own have pockets. Trousers without pockets can get in the bin!
Right on!
I feel if they should be renamed “snack holes” and we’d get more of them.