#fake + pockets = fockets

[twomanyfandomshelp]

What is one conspiracy theory that you wholeheartedly believe?

I’ll go first:

That clothing companies conspire with handbag companies to take away women’s pockets or give us really sucky ones to make sure that we are forced to buy bags so that we can actually carry all our shit.

[theabsentmindedone]

My war on fake pockets in womens fashion continues. I will now be referring to all faux pockets as fockets from now on, and I look forward to seeing the startled reactions it will bring.

Please. My phone and hands have no home. They're cold and tired. Just. Give. Us. Pockets.

[songbirdstew]

Just a casual Saturday chat

Today I blew the minds of both Curtis and Sid by showing them my Fockets (Fake Pockets)*: 

Then I told them about seatbelts and airbags being built for men; heating/cooling systems in the workplace being catered to men (a double whammy, I pointed out, when you consider the differences in traditional workplace attire between men and women; men get to wear twice the clothing); and smartphones being built for larger hands (ie more masculine hands). (This Guardian article very decently summarizes these issues and more.) C&I held our hands together for Sid to see the difference in size; C’s hands are twice as large as mine, even with my relatively long fingers. 

They were utterly gobsmacked by the things I pointed out, and C was outraged (what I mean is, they believed me and they took me seriously). I told Curtis I specifically sought out the Pixel over the Pixel XL, that I have routinely sought out the smallest handset possible, that the Pixel is still too big for me to use one-handed. “Wait. ... REALLY?” Yep. I fuck up in my apps all the time, because my hand just isn’t big enough for the controls. 

Sid asked me if I could just buy men’s pants to get proper pockets. I said, “Well, that gets tricky, first because just FINDING men’s pants that would be small enough for me, and second because pants that are sold to men are not designed for cis women’s bodies. Even without looking at our height difference, look at my body next to Dad’s. Proportionately, my hips are bigger, my thighs are rounder, my waist is bigger around, and my waistline is a lot higher.” 

I told Sid, “This is my life. This is the life of every woman and girl you have ever met, and of many non-white men who are genetically smaller than their Caucasian counterparts, and of many transgender men. Our lives matter less than yours. Apparently. Fix it, please!**”

Sid held up one finger and said, “I’ll try! I’ll do my best!” He then assumed his patented Thinking Position -- left arm across his chest, right elbow on left arm, right hand in a fist under his chin -- and said, “Well, I think the only way to fix your pockets is to sew real pockets on the pants you have, and then for companies to put women in the room where they make pants. Acshully, that’s probably true for all of them. Just. Put women in the room and listen to THEIR ideas. We should put scanners in cars, so when you come up to it, it reads your body, and then automatically fixes the seat to put it how it’s comfortable for you, and moves the pedals so you can reach, and then slides the seatbelt so it fits you. And it memorizes each driver, so you don’t have to waste time fixing everything. And then in offices, we can do the same thing. Just, have some AI that takes each body temperature, and compares it to the outside temperature, and adjusts it each day. And it’ll be different in each section of the building, because prolly some sections have more women than others.” (Like. How did he even know that?? I don’t know!)

So have hope, guys. Sid is going to bring intersectional feminism to biometrics, and maybe another generation down the line, we’ll all be a little bit safer. We can rest easy now, Sid’s on the case!

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*Where I’m sticking my thumbnail, that is as deep as I can go. It isn’t one of those flat-stitched display tricks, it is genuinely Not A Pocket. (In which case, why the rivets? I don’t fuckin know. So they look Tuff, I guess.) When I told C, “The coin pocket is real, I can stick almost half my thumb in there!”, he replied in disbelief, “That’s not supposed to be a coin pocket! That’s supposed to be a WATCH pocket! For your pocket watch!” And I replied in EQUAL disbelief, “You can get a whole WATCH in yours?? I’m lucky if I can get a QUARTER in mine!” Like. It’s discrimination, all the way down! WTF!

**I sort of say "Fix it, please!” a lot to Sid, as short hand for, My generation fucked this up, and I hope yours is smarter and kinder than mine! He gets it.

[nanuillustration]

Burning question on my mind: fake pockets, or fockets as I call them, why are they a thing in women's clothing? Swipe to see a timelapse of the making of the drawing. · · · #question #drawing #procreate #timelapse #pocket #fashion #why (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3KnbWQB_S4/?igshid=1xene23lk52da

[moral-turpitudes]

Focket = A Fake Pocket

[cutegorl]

Fake pockets... fockets