Talk:Flower/@comment-53539-20150427121629/@comment-53539-20150427135346

Its a social upbringing thing I guess... Where typically guys wear trousers and girls frocks. And the mentality is rammed into everyone's skulls.

I think even the My Little Pony fandom noted this in regards to Equestria girls how the majority of the cast dress in skirts. A lot of guys who noted it said that in most of their highschools the girls wore trousers. Though Rainbow Dash wore leggings under her skirt, I had to agree with her an Applejack not striking me as typically the kind of characters who'd wear dresses casually everyday.

But there is likely a more realistic reason for the reaction... <ost of history has girls wearing dresses. It was a design issue originally. Girls wore dresses because it enhanced the hips and covered the legs, reducing a woman down to an ideal "shape". Men had more formal dress for because of being the head of their house. Even in various cultures such as Japan, you see may of the same ideals being expressed, with clothes that were made for enhance the body shape for girls and being practical + formal for men.

Guess this is the reason behind the reaction, we can't see at first glance flower is a girl now.... Because we're used to that "shape enhancing" design that culturally is rammed into us.

Its kinda like how everyone excepts a boy to sound like a boy. So shows like the Rugrats had boys that sound like boys... Even at the age where vocally there is almost no difference in girls and boys voices. :-/