Before beginning I wish to state with absolute clarity that I do NOT speak about ALL women. There are exceptions to anything.

I blame the men who have for so many years run the fashion industry and the womens magazines.

For decades they have told us be thin, wear this, wear that, cut your hair so, colour thus.... This elite group have dominated womens lives and controlled them like a puppet master does his puppets.

We stuff ourselves into impossible shoes because they makes out legs look longer and our bum look pert and for what? so that other men will find us attractive and other women will accept or be jealous of us . (depending which group you belong to)

Wearing the same dress at an event twice leaves you open to ridicule and assumptions that you are too poor or cheap to buy a new outfit.

Pick up any womans magazine , on one page it will tell you to love yourself and be happy on the next it will give you a crash diet to loose an extra dress size. the message is, to be happy you must be thin.

Oh and then theres body hair and smells, we should always smell like something we are not, sultry temptress or spring flower and body hair is to be removed as soon as it dare sprout ..and removed in any painful manner men can think of from wax to epilady (ripping hair by the roots) of vile smelling creams... we will be smooth and silky because we are told that how nice ladies are, only trogs and cave dwellers are hairy mary's..

No wonder women are confused. We are brainwashed into self doubt and the desire to please, to please the fashion puppet masters , the men in our lives , the other puppet women..

We go to silly lengths to try to achive this goal , we starve ourselves life long , we squeeze into shoes that damage our feet so that in old age we need surgical intervention and we wear clothes that restict our movement and functioning ability (I dare a man to do anything practical in womens dresses, shoes and tights!) .

Sadly until we break free and cut the strings of oppression you men will just have to get used to the wardrobe war..

and I am one of them
I get more enjoyment walking around a DIY shop or garden centre than looking at clothes,shoes, handbags or jewellery and I possess a minimum of these things.

Furthermore, if women honestly desire to be truly liberated, then why not take this opportunity to rid yourselves of this so called"male oppression". It would be so very easy to just so, "No more".

Bakerman, from your OP, you advised us men to never tell the truth whether or not something makes your spouse look fat.

Have you ever considered the answer, "Do I look dumb enough to answer that?".

hmmm... you need to check out the thread about LGBT on the social issues section. There you will see what the average guy on this forum thinks of women who let themselves go