To begin, I love fandom shirts. I adore the variety they add to my wardrobe, the colours they usually come in and most of all the delight I get walking around with something I love on my shirt. It's a great feeling and I've shirts for almost everything I like- from Doctor Who to How to Train Your Dragon and even Discworld. Wearing them is a thing I do and I do it often.
I also get comments on them. Something to be expected, people like these things too, and well part of the joy in wearing these shirts is when people comment and we strike up a conversation. I've talked to some lovely people because of it.
But it's nearly always girls who comment. Nearly always, I can recall one time a guy complimented my shirt but it's an anomaly. Don't get me wrong, I don't particularly care either way if it's a guy or girl commenting, I'm not wearing these shirts in search of a date or anything and someone commenting is always lovely regardless of sex. It's just...odd?
I really just want to figure out why it's like this. Is it because of the make up of my class is mostly female? But I've gotten comments from passerbys so it's not that. Is it because I only look open to compliments when women are nearby? But I've been reading books when I've gotten a comment, so it's not that either.
Do guys just not comment on this kind of thing?
Commenting on fashion tends to be a female domain. I cant speak for what the make up of the gender of fandom is but it seems to be 90% or more female at the tumblr level though I know guys watch Doctor Who etc at well... plus dudes aren't going to be as comfortable striking up a conversation with a random girl cos it is much more likely to get taken as them being interested, whereas if its another girl, that assumption isnt there.
ReplyDeleteI dunno.
But yeah, fandom shirts are the best :)
Yeah, I don't know either. Just idly musing really, though I do like your explanation for it. =)
DeleteThey're awesome.