By: Chelsey Leahy

Fredericton – Haven’t women alrea dy taken enough from us MEN? What is happening to the men’s fashion world?

Haven’t women already taken enough from us MEN? What is happening to the men’s fashion world? Every day there are new images of women or, at least, that’s how they appear, attending formal events in suits, and not lady suits, but OUR suits. How can we compete with this new image of masculinity? Is it even masculinity, if it is women performing it? We need to find a way to stop allowing ladies to steal everything that is our, and that includes the pantsuit.

Suits have been part of the man’s world since the 19th century, and just now are we seeing – once again ladies trying to steal it. I’ve read comments such as “Women are wearing it better” and “Doesn’t she look so dapper in that navy suit”. Here at The Eggplant we believe this to be problematic, ladies should never look dapper, they should look elegant and beautiful, not HANDSOME. That is reserved for use MEN. When we asked

people on the streets of Fredericton, we discovered that many men had the same opinion as us. “Ladies, are meant to wear dresses at formal events, it was one thing when they started wearing jeans and pants, however ,this is completely different. The suit is for US, and only US”, this is a statement from a 23-year-old University of New Brunswick Student. And when we went up the hill to St. Thomas University, this seemed to be much less the case as common comment was “well shouldn’t everyone be permitted to wear what they want?” – those liberal art student I tell you, are always about making changes, and taking things away from people. Why can’t we just have what we want, and that is to have suits back to ourselves.

We were told during our visit to St. Thomas, that we are the reason that feminist are still needed, however The Eggplant believe it is because of people like the St. Thomas population that we need meninist otherwise us MEN are going to lose everything. WE will

not longer have out masculine identity to ourselves. We will be forced to share everything with those ladies, that want to pretend they can look just as good as us in suits. We cannot let masculinity transgress down that road. It is called Masculinity for a reason, Masculine for MAN. No Woman.

We have already allowed those women to steal our jobs, our sports, or everything. WE

CANNOT let them steal our style. WE WILL NO LONGER HAVE ANYTHING TO MAKE US MANLY. And what next, are these women going to start stealing our women?