http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2013/06/09/stockholm-men-skirts.html
Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.
Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which doesn't allow shorts.
The 30-year-old Akersten said Sunday the response from customers has been only positive. While they may get a lot of stares, none of them have gotten negative comments.
Arriva, the company that runs the train line, hasn't stopped the drivers.
Arriva spokesman Tomas Hedenius says the company wants its staff to look "nice and proper," but can't stop men from wearing "women's clothes" if that's what they want because it would be discrimination.
He didn't rule out a change of the company's uniform policy.
Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.
Train driver Martin Akersten says he and more than a dozen others at the Roslagsbanan line have started wearing skirts in the summer as a protest against the train company's uniform policy, which doesn't allow shorts.
The 30-year-old Akersten said Sunday the response from customers has been only positive. While they may get a lot of stares, none of them have gotten negative comments.
Arriva, the company that runs the train line, hasn't stopped the drivers.
Arriva spokesman Tomas Hedenius says the company wants its staff to look "nice and proper," but can't stop men from wearing "women's clothes" if that's what they want because it would be discrimination.
He didn't rule out a change of the company's uniform policy.
there's no such thing as 'women's clothes'... or women.. or clothes... we're all nude underneath it all, aren't we? so we're nude... that's a fact. look it up, bub!
getfiscal posted:there's no such thing as 'women's clothes'... or women.. or clothes... we're all nude underneath it all, aren't we? so we're nude... that's a fact. look it up, bub!
Ok, I did go look it up, and what it actually says is that you're newb underneath it all.
swampman posted:Ok, I did go look it up, and what it actually says is that you're newb underneath it all.
i'm a noob, a goon, a gbs... and a man. *nods to the world*
Roslagsbanan
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I just go commando in basketball shorts
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Nope. I don't.
I'm watching drop dead Fred on Netflix
vote Scottish Independence
the way Sweden is going I think their women should be more concerned about their right to wear skirts without stares
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no, bf, i'm the best poster. sorry but i'm gonna have to downvote your post
Shut up stupid
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a pacific northwestern sociopath vs. a do-good southern liberal it's a close call