Gay men dominate the fashion industry, just as strait men dominate the heavy equipment industry.
Gay men are more focused on their presentation than strait men. The strait boys are catching up, but they have a long way to go. The strait boy fashionista is still a pretty rare thing.
As gay culture merges with mainstream culture, all this will change. But I don't understand the discomfort with the reality. Gay boys are the fashionistas of the world...and the hairdressers and the interior designers and the ballet dancers. We've made the world a more beautiful place.
Isn't that a good thing?
There are indeed an above average number of gays in the fashion industry. But you take that fact, and run with it to utterly unsupported conclusions.
For a start, I promise you there are lots of gays in the heavy equipment industry. Gays are not different to straight people, they do the same jobs as everyone else! Gays drive buses, teach in universities, collect your refuse, bake your break, make your cars, drill your oil, grow your food, make your computers go ..........
All gays don't work in the fashion industry, not even NEARLY. Yes, there are gays who work in the fashion industry, no, that does not tell you anything about all gays. That extrapolation is literally a logical fallacy, right up there with the classic "all dogs have four legs, my cat has four legs, therefore my dog is a cat!".
Now, you also say that caring about your appearance is related to fashion, it is not! You don't have to buy labels and use a million and one pharmaceuticals to take proper care your yourself and present your self in a neat and clean manner. I care about my appearance, I HATE fashion.
So, everything you say is wrong, because it's based on the nonsense idea that all gays (or even most gays) are fashionistas. But, lets pretend you are correct, and answer your final (rhetorical question) - no, no I do not think that would be a good thing at all!
The fashion industry is one of the most obvious tumours from the cancer destroying our soceity - our ever-increasing shallowness, and our ever more out of control consumerism. The fashion industry is all about getting people to spend INSANE amounts of money on cloths and accessories that you CAN'T use long-term, because, well, that is not not allowed in the fashion world. It is vacuous out of control consumerism gone mad.
Following fashions is not some sort of good thing to aspire to, instead it's a very wasteful surrendering of your originality and your money. Following fashion is a sign that you have given up on expressing your own individuality, and instead prefer to throw away your money on things other people insist are hip.
Actually caring about your appearance has nothing to do with buying over-priced cloths that you can only wear for a short amount of time before they fall out of fashion.
We should be encouraging people to buy durable affordable cloths that will last and that express their actual tastes and personality - the exact inverse of the fashion industry.
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