OK... first: I don't have a lot of photos. Most of my public photos are of manicures and pedicures I've worn. "Friends" may also see photos of some of my skirts and other challenges to "traditional" men's fashion... "Family" may also view photos that include nudity. If I see nudity in your photostream, or in a group we both are in, I will add you as "Family" (ironically, my actual family never gets "Flickr Family" status - go figure...) - if you don't like male nudity, or don't want to see my junk, that's OK - you don't have to look, I won't be offended. I hope someday to have a GF who will let me take & share photos of her, and us, and us-with-girlfriends... but until then, I can't take photos of what I don't have. Sorry for that.

I'm 47, straight, divorced father - I'm an advocate for men's equality in family courts, and in fashion too. I am straight IRL, but I have no problem with anyone's gender or orientation, and online we really are all the same, so here I'm much more open to a wider variety of interactions, and am willing to express myself in ways that are reserved for fantasy IRL.

The injustice in family courts is a "how many trees make a forest?" thing - everybody knows a man who as been involuntarily forced away from his kids, by a court that uses his money to reward her for her selfishness, greed and infidelity... but few realize that this happens every day, in most divorces, and taken as a whole, it's a pattern of discrimination and marginalization of men, and it's a govt run divorce incentive system for women. That's why in most jurisdictions, about 5 out of 6 (in some places, 6 out of 7) divorces are filed by women.

The injustice in fashion is not govt but societal oppression - of men by dictating restrictive dress codes (no nail polish, no skirts etc..) which expose us to punishment via shame and ridicule if we choose to do what we want with OUR bodies..... AND it's discrimination of women, by defining things (polish, skirts, purses...) as feminine, then basing the restrictions of men on the false premise that "feminine is bad". Anyone who derides a man wearing polish or a skirt, is perpetrating this oppression.

One thing I've discovered is that nail polish does an excellent job of protecting my toenails from the harsh environment of my mandatory steel-toed work boots... my feet used to be gross, disgusting, embarrassing, and UNHEALTHY - but with polish, now they're actually pretty. For the first time in my life, I'm actually proud to wear sandals (even so-called "women's" sandals - the less coverage, the better) and show off my pretty feet! Plus, the extra exposure to light and air makes my feet much healthier and less repulsive. EVERY MAN SHOULD wear polish on his toes!

I have worn polish on my toes constantly since July 10th, 2011, and on my fingers almost constantly since November of 2011. I occasionally wear skirts - my first skirt was a pair of dress pants I modified to reduce the number of leg holes from 2 to 1, since then I have discovered several really nice skirts on the clearance racks.

I am not a crossdresser or a transvestite. The goal of that is to attempt to pass for female. I'll never pass for female, and have no desire to try. I reject the belief that some clothing is "only for females", I defy the so-called "feminine" category, and I claim nail color, skirts, nylons, heels and everything else as legitimate elements of men's fashion. I wear everything I wear AS a man - no less manly than Russel Crowe in "Gladiator" or Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" or Sean Connery here:

This should show where my visitors are..