I can get away with wearing mens tops and shoes, but my hips are too fabulous for mens pants to look good on me. So I gotta settle for women's pants.

So I'm currently doing field work for Ecology so I need to get PRACTICAL WORK PANTS WITH LOTS OF POCKETS.

Meanwhile women's clothing shops are like "UwU, work clothes for women? You mean these business pants with no pockets?" There are no other kinds of workwear for women IN THE WORKWEAR SECTION.

No motherfucker I mean cargo pants with all the pockets and belt loops. I'm going out in the bush. I need pockets for extra batteries and I need belt loops to hook a satellite GPS to. Fuck.

Look at this sexist bullshit. Here is the women's workwear section:

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Here is the men's workwear section, same store:

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Apparently all women work in offices and all men work physical labour jobs and fuck you if you deviate from your assigned role in life.

FUCK GENDER ROLES AAAAA IT'S 2024 AND THEY'RE STILL DOING THE FUCKING NO POCKETS THING bird-screm-2

EDIT: Thank you comrades for all the suggestions on where to shop. Care-Comrade

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 months ago

      Honestly, proper gear at a farm supply isn't going to be substantially higher than that of regular clothes. I find it's often cheaper upfront to buy a set of work pants that'll last a decade than even to buy a single set of regular pants that'll only last a year, not even accounting for the whole Sam Vimes boot theory "lasting ten times as long" thing. Genuinely, farm supplies have cheaper jeans that last longer, and will have tool loops.

      Like, you can walk into a tractor supply in the US and buy a pair of durable and long-lasting work jeans for $20-30, where a regular pair of jeans at Target will be $30-40.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      Take a look at thrift shops. Dickies and Wrangler are always available. If you’re lucky you might get carhart’s (the real work wear, not the street fashion product line). They’re usually around $7 to $20, depending on the quality and whether the workers paid attention while tagging the clothes lol

    • booty [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      If you find pants you like but think they're too expensive, I'll pay for a pair (through paypal transfer) No owl should have to go out there improperly attired Care-Comrade

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        3 months ago

        You are incredibly sweet for offering, but there are comrades that need your money way more than me. I'll be fine, but I appreciate it for sure meow-hug .