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Fortunately for you, Scotland exists

As a bald man... Fuck your long hair encouragement! (Out of spite, and envy)

I run in circles where dudes semiregularly wear kilts.

I've sat in a circle with other dudes where they were comparing brands of utility kilts. Lol

There are folks out there that wear them. It's just not super fashionable in a lot of circles. Unfortunately.

i remember reading that in the medieval age, most noble men had long hair because it was a sign of wealth and such

In the 60s and 70s, feminists fought for the idea that people should feel free to dress and act however they wanted and not let their gender define them.

It seems like we've taken some steps backwards since then. Men wearing dresses is more accepted now, but only in the narrow confines of being trans. I don't think Kobain or Bowie ever wanted to be defined as trans, they just wanted to be themselves and challenge cultural norms.

There's a man's skirt sitting in my Etsy favorites for so long. It's scary to pioneer something like this but it's so tempting at the same time.

And long hair. Long hair is so beautiful and sexy that everyone should grow long hair despite of the gender.

100%, long hair for all!

Fake news. Minimalism did not yet exist back then.

Ah, it's an IBM PS/2!

Nice try, Kurt.

It was the early 90s, of course they're jorts

This is what can be achieved when you leave fear behind

No, those are jeans cut into shorts

‽ being used in this economy

(i dont mean to offend you just really surprised seeing someone use one)

The neck snap at the end perfectly sums up how horrifying this is

Scientists have not found that pic yet.

I think it means Kurt Cobain was so obviously and genuinely gender/identity queer at a time when there wasn't a popular conception of such a thing that people who were also queer saw Kurt and realized that, at the very least, being a boy or girl, man or woman, doesn't need to be this one thing, which is socially reinforced in the negative.

Kurt expressed something we didn't have words for as young people in the early 90s. But as you dug deeper, it was all in Kurt's music, from the very beginning. It was drastically different from depictions of "transvestites" we had grown up with. And it was not just a token identification with conflicting gender identities, but deep grappling with all these inner thoughts, experience, worry, frustration, love. And everybody loved it. Through Nirvana's music, I think you could feel accepted for being queer, because Kurt's music was deeply resonant with many queer people's experience, and it was hugely popular and culturally prominent.

And there's Kurt with dirty long hair in a dress, beautiful blue eyes, looks like about to tell someone "fuck you* and bash someone over the head with his cheap Japanese Mustang, which Kurt was known to do. The coolest rockstar on the planet, in a thriftstore dress.

So maybe op meant something like, "I identified my own queerness when I saw Kurt's". But all this is made up just someone alive and infatuated with Nirvana at the time.