• affenlehrer@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    I was wondering why my GF (now wife) often gave me stuff like keys to carry when she didn’t have her purse with me, since her pants seemed to have pockets. However, they were actually fake pockets. Just a nice looking design but they couldn’t actually be opened

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      12 hours ago

      If you own a sewing machine I suggest if any of those clothes have mini pockets ripping the seams and adding fabric to make a big pocket. Help her take back her power!

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      It’s a real conspiracy, I’m telling you. They’re giving women the little things so that they won’t ask for pockets.

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        Exactly and as you can see from my example, she immediately lost her independence and needed me to carry things. I had the pockets.

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          This is a big reason that young women feel like they have a lot of pressure to get married to a wealthier man that has the resources to have pockets, or if they can’t find one, settle for one that has at least a decent hoodie. I feel like a lot of them wouldn’t bother if they didn’t have to rely on the pockets of men.

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      Women will also complain how stuffed pockets ruin the look of clothes with unsightly bumps and they usually have clothes that are tighter around the body compared to men’s clothes. The compromise for the producer was making fake pockets and hope somebody will invent a pocket of holding.

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        My partner was doing this, sure the jeans don’t have pockets but your coat has pockets. But you was just carrying her phone around in her hand all day, just asking for it to be snatched kind of gives me anxiety. All of this because she said she didn’t like having things in her pockets, because it made her feel unbalanced.

        She seems so unused to pockets that she can’t interact with them when she does have the option.

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          Sometimes when one has been deprived of freedom for a long time, it may feel unnatural to use it.