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Justice for Men & Boys 
Well good for him, in opposing hegemonic female privilege in this way.
If I ever had to read the news on the Home Service in a heatwave, I had myself, planned to refuse to wear an evening suit and black tie.
Fortunately, that situation never actually arose.
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Its probably easy to see this as trivial. However there are some really important points to this double standard. Firstly it is symbolic of double standards of more far reaching sorts (as in the criminal justice or family courts) secondly of course it is another example of the premium placed on female “self expression” and the role of men as uniform (often literally) “replaceable parts”. I myself am pretty conservative in dress however I appreciate cases such as this that illustrate the much more constrained lives of men, which is of course the actual opposite of the feminist claims women are constrained.
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Good for him in opposing female hegemonic privilege in such a way.
If I had found myself having to read the news on the BBC Home Service during a heatwave, I too would have refused to wear an evening suit and black tie, choosing some light and floaty ball gown instead
Fortunately as it turned out, that particular situation never actually arose.
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