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seldo
Can I add "men's fashion is painfully boring and expensive compared to the endless variety of cheap, interesting clothing available to women"? It's a small, small thing compared to these but man how it bugs me. And the US is even worse than Europe in this regard.
waqf
Isn't it all nylon or polyester, though? I bet it's less comfortable and possibly less durable than you imagine.

Durable, of course, directly mitigates against cheap.

lsc
huh. Boring, okay, I'll give you that; but expensive? I always thought that the lack of change in men's fashion was an advantage. I have a bunch of generic brand levis 510s that I bought at costco for $20 each during the .com boom that I still wear- I mean, I wear them while running wires through crawlspaces and, heh, lifting heavy servers (the costco store brand, generally speaking, is very high quality) I bought a bunch of "calvin Klein" brand jeans at the same time and they lasted about two years of the same usage patterns. (those were a bit more baggy, and almost all of them suffered catastrophic failures while I was lifting something. I hear a 'riip' and suddenly I feel, uh, much better ventilated. Embarrassing, and requires a trip home for new pants.
varjag
Very interesting to hear such an unusual perspective from a chap who's been on both sides of the fence. Thankyou Internet.
[dead] cypherpunk1
Painful to read. The standard whine of modern American victimology. It sounds like a woman.
karzeem
These are mostly valid points, but they're so far down the list in importance that for most men, they approach irrelevance. (The list would more accurately be titled "Downsides to transitioning from female to male", so maybe its contents are more relevant for that subset of males.)

The chief problem with masculinity is the things men are told make them "real" men. The message is that you're not a real man unless you have boatloads of money, are strong, have sex with lots of women, intimidate/dominate others, never show emotion or "softness", etc.

This messaging is ubiquitous — far more so than the things in this list — and extremely dangerous.