Earring market "for men" is pretty limited tbh, lots of the styles are very femme coded and not advertised towards men or men's fashion. It's "for men" because the default market is for women, which is annoying, but points to a larger issue of gendered everything - ThreadSky

leafboy.bsky.social • 79 days ago

Earring market "for men" is pretty limited tbh, lots of the styles are very femme coded and not advertised towards men or men's fashion.

It's "for men" because the default market is for women, which is annoying, but points to a larger issue of gendered everything

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ishtar.bsky.social•78 days ago

Oh I understand. My fuss is not with marketing in this way. I'm using this as a example of a larger problem in archeology where we make the improper assumption that certain items are gendered - such as finding an earring in a grave assuming it's a woman, when it might be a man

leafboy.bsky.social•78 days ago

Ah I get you! Its always interesting when headlines are like "high priestess turns out to be high priest?!?" or whatever

Oh to be a fly on the wall of a hut, observing the sociality that doesn't preserve

leafboy.bsky.social•79 days ago

I think theres probably also an intersection of queerness too, since statement earrings are often seen as gay (hence the gay dangly earring trope!)

When searching for earrings/fashion I get it, because 90% of results will be gendered towards women. I hate it, but it's a heuristic

ishtar.bsky.social•78 days ago

I think you're also correct about some of the intersectionality. I am also queer, And don't always like things that are intended for women. The point is that human expression is quite diverse, and while trends can be found, they're not always true for the individual

leafboy.bsky.social•78 days ago

100%, I think I just took a very contemporary angle on your post while you were approaching it from the past (via the present). Thanks for the clarification!

I wonder what yet to be determined gender wizardry will be imposed on our present from the future 🤔

ishtar.bsky.social•78 days ago

It'll probably be a bit easier as we have a much more complex material culture that does a better job of defining our genders overtly. Unfortunately, intersex and non-binary people getting ignored. But that seems to be changing

leafboy.bsky.social•78 days ago

🤞🤞

I don't wanna presume the end of history, but I'd like to believe in the future

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