There was a Lassie episode from the 1950's. A Brit boy, named Robin, visited America in the little farm town of Calverton and was a guest at the Martin farm. One country boy on a bicycle asks another if the Brit boy was a girl. He was wearing "skinny" black shorts that were down to about the knees. His hair was still short like a boy's though. Circa 1959.
Please go to time mark 8:25 below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi9H...ature=youtu.be
Does the Brit boy look girlish to you? English boys are a lot more polished in manners than their American counterparts.
They seem very learned and verbose at a younger age too.
The whole point of this thread is that what is considered masculine or feminine may vary among cultures. Evidently, American farm boys
in days of old thought shorts not manly somehow. I wonder what they'd think of Scotsmen in kilts if they saw them. And Japanese fellows
in kimonos.
Nah, that’s just British snootiness.