On Clothing and Contrast

U. Nami

What is the main element which makes mixed fighting more fascinating than either male or female only wrestling? Aside from the difference of gender, the all important element is of contrast. It is not a matter of the size of the two combatants, because to have one contestant drastically larger than the other would be unrealistic. But to have a male and female of roughly the same size and weight would be to have them as true representatives of their sex.

Now one comes to the fundamentals of the matter, for the differences between the sexes is not just a matter of size or genitalia, it is also a matter of the completely different concepts of clothing. A male's clothing consists of trousers, shirt etc. (Apart from the kilt which is archaic garment.) These garment totally covers he body leaving only his hands and head uncovered. This very fact lends him a sense of security throughout his everyday dealings with people, and at night he sleeps in his pyjamas. Only when in the act of cleaning himself or swimming (at which female are much better than males anyway) is he at any disadvantage by not being properly attired and protected. So this clothing, his trousers, shirt etc., gives him security, protection and authority.

We now turn to the female's traditional attire of dress or skirt and blouse etc. This attire, in total contrast to the male's obviously, gives her no enclosure of her body, indeed it leaves a large portion exposed. So the object of her attire is not the same as the male's, and its main purpose is the arousal of the male's sexual desire. Of course females do tend to try to assert their emancipation of attempting to imitate males by wearing masculine clothing. So one often finds feminists and tomboys attired in jeans or slacks. But by wearing such garments they are merely suggesting that masculinity is better than femininity instead of affirming their feminine quality.

Only by challenging males as true females can the female really expect any respect for herself as a female, and this means facing up to males not in masculine attire but in the traditional attire of womanhood.

But how females dodge this fundamental truth was well illustrated by the two following examples from television.

The first instance is the pilot for a new television thriller series about a female private eye called Anne Lee. The heroine in question was being spied upon by a hotel porter while she was only wearing her bra and briefs. Her only reaction at the time was to fold her arms across her breasts to hide her embarrassment. But later on in the bar, chatting to her male colleague, now wearing trousers and feeling secure in the sense of masculine authority those masculine trousers gave her, she told him she should have made a citizens' arrest of the offending peeping tom. Even later on in the episode she again feeling secure in her trousers gives chase to this peeping tom and brings him down and overpowers him. But the point is she is exactly the same person with the same capabilities, but the different performance on the two occasions was governed by the type of attire she was wearing.

The other instance was from a comedy series The Two of Us starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Janet Dibley. The husband attempts to recreate the scene where he carried his wife into their flat after they were married. But he has trouble doing this and she emerges through the door carrying him. But instead of wearing the traditional feminine skirt she would normally wear, she is now attired in jeans, thus symbolising the fact yet again that only by wearing masculine attire could she achieve such a feat.

However in an American movie called A Different Story about a lesbian marrying a male homosexual the female in skirt did carry her husband over the threshold. Indeed the poster advertising this film appeared on hoardings everywhere. Such a depiction of a female in only a skirt cradling a suited male in her arms could have been shattering to the whole ethos of the social structure, but it passed almost unnoticed.

Indeed only in two areas are the prevailing attitudes challenged. The first being in the world of speciality acts from the field of circus and variety etc. Here the predominance is for the clothed male to lift and toss his lightly clad female companion all over the place. But in a few acts the lightly clad female may have up to at least 50% of the act where she holds her clothed male companion aloft. The other media is in the field of mixed wrestling particularly from the Stanton, Creative Films, and Special Interest outlets.

Three items from this media spring to mind of being the most dangerous to the male status. These scenes take place in a gymn. The girls involved are only lightly clad as they would be going through their exercises. Of the five males involved in these scenes three are demoted from their true manhood by wearing shorts. But two of the males are wearing track suits. The girls continue with their exercises by lifting up them men after the men interrupted their exercises. The important point about this is though with the current female fitness craze and declining stature of some males, plus also the fact that any fit person male or female should be able to lift and carry their own weight.The time could come when one of these leotard or bikini clad fitness females could decide, instead of lifting up dumbbells and barbells she could lift up a real live member of the dominant male sex.

Also, in contrast to adult males and females, it is true that females between the ages of eleven to fourteen are actually heavier than their male peers, so the girls could feasibly be more able to lift the boys than the boys could lift them. If maintained throughout all ages, such a state of affairs could drastically alter the whole status of society.

As noted earlier, females are much better at swimming than males. Indeed this is borne out by the statistics where swimming is the one event where women can outstrip men. Also, this being the case and males not wishing to be seen to be outclassed by females, one could see a situation where becomes more attractive to females than it is for males. Indeed, the trend could increase right across other fields of activity as well, with the girls wanting to become more fitter and thereby slimmer and attractive and the boys becoming more studious. It could even reach a stage where the two genders could effectively be divided into two separate streams. The boys would do more science, English, maths etc and the girls doing more exclusively swimming, gymnastics, cooking, and physical education in general. The end result would be that females would emerge from their schooling fitter and slimmer than they do now. But the boys would emerge also leaner, lighter and physically weaker.

The above is a terrible and frightening scenario which will not very likely ever happen but at the sea side where females can go about in a state of undress which they prefer in contrast to the male. When the bikini clad females are being carried about on the shoulders of their boyfriends and husbands, it would only take one bikini clad female to carry her trousered boyfriend on her shoulders to cause a sensation.

Editorial Comment:

This article was sent in by a reader who would prefer to remain anonymous. Whereas some of the points raised are obviously somewhat fanciful, there are some others that ring true.

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