Ding ding ding. It's depressing I had to come this far down the thread for a bit of sense. Patriarchy is the system which reinforces this idea that women should always be under pressure to look pretty for men's pleasure, wear makeup, dress nice, don't be caught in the same outfit twice, etc etc. Plenty of women internalise that and repeat it to each other, whereas analogous pressures for men basically do not exist in general society.

There's absolutely plenty of women who do not give a single shit what their friends/coworkers wear, and that's fantastic. The problem is that they all seem to be commenting in this thread going 'well I don't do this so obviously no one does.' There's a concerning lack of self-awareness in those comments (which I scrolled past ten of getting down here), but they're being upvoted because they reinforce Reddit's favourite narrative: that male privilege does not exist, and anybody complaining about it is not to be taken seriously.

I see this original image a lot, and every time it infuriates me how it's posted as a 'clever comeback' or 'murdered by words' when the person replying just... misses the entire point. She never once said that it was men criticising her for wearing the same dress twice. If someone understood that from her tweet, that's because they don't know what privilege is and they made a leap in logic accordingly.