In Praise of...Skirts.

As the Lost One has recently resumed classes, and being that his lovely break included, sleep, work, sleep, catching up on his correspondence, sleep, watching Chris Carter's cool, yet doomed series Harsh Realm, and of course sleep, the Lost One finds he has little to blog about. The Lost One has yet to encounter any professor related craziness (wait for it...), and has been lax in keeping up with the latest in the blogging sphere, so...Today's post is going to be the random ramblings of a man whose job leaves him too much time to think. And yes, this post is actually about the titular garment. Here the Lost One hastens to add a word of clarification, (The Lost One's mother has been known to stop in and he doesn't want her to get the wrong idea) , the post isn't about sex. Actually it is about sex, but not how you think. Biologist Desmond Morris, once put forward a very dangerous idea: Man...Woman...Not the same. I know it seems simple, but speaking a truism any five year old whose bathed with a sibling of the opposite gender knows to be true, is likely to get you a vote of no-confidence now. The most radical of Dr. Morris' findings, however, was that rather then being a source of condescension, and confrontation, the differences in the sexes are actually a source of attraction. Men are naturally drawn to those aspects of woman which we don't share, and vice versa. While this is true, saying it in western culture has now become very risky. It's here that the Lost One brings forward that particular piece of couture, because the skirt holds a particular honor in western society. The Skirt alone, inexplicably, has managed to avoid the jihad against common sense that our culture seems to be reveling in. The skirt alone carries the banner of sex differentiation, of divergence. Of Diversity. The Skirt alone says that Women don't have to pretend to be Men. The Skirt alone says Men are allowed to remember that women actually are different then them. The Skirt alone says that being who you are is okay, and not something of which to be ashamed. And so gentle reader for all those reasons, the Lost One sends a shout out to all the woman who wear skirts on campus. Thank you so much, for a bit of true counter-culture on campus, and for a bit of diversity as well.

P.S.: For those of my readers who miss the Professor kevtching, worry not, this quarter's Professor M______ looks, sadly, like fertile material.