While I prefer to live my life in the comfort and ease of daily sweatpants, I am but one lesbian, and the world is filled with so many more lesbians. Perhaps they are curled up in the corner of their local bookstore in some jewel-toned corduroys reading a slim book about gardening, or perhaps they’re in their carpenter jeans, painting your house. Or maybe they are embodying the spirit of a different pair of pants altogether. Let’s get started, it is time for you to discover your true authentic self!
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Usually when I do one of these quizzes, I have an inkling beforehand of which result I will get.
In this case, and not having a strong leaning when it comes to pants self-ID, I entered blindly into the sacred covenant between quiz-taker and quiz, feeling both that I was taking a leap of faith into potential trouserly revelation, while also secure in the knowledge that there could not be an incorrect lesbian pant.
Overall, 10/10, a truly transcendental experience.
Also, I am Joggers!
sally it is so important that we have these opportunities for communal transcendence through sartorial alignments and it is a blessing to have been a part of yours. i think we are all really beginning to really embrace the knowledge that there could not be an incorrect lesbian pant and thank you for being a trailblazer by giving me the words to express it
Power Dyke pleated wide-legged pants.
The AS Oracle has spoken, my true nature revealed. Watch out World !
YOU GOT THIS
I got flowy hippie pants, and the description is accurate as always lol.
Being probably more of a skirt-wearing lesbian, I’d be surprised to get anything I actually wear since I generally only wear jeans for casual or business-y slacks for work (assuming this is for day wear and pajama pants don’t count and also assuming leggings don’t really count as pants). Still, weirdly, flowy pants confuse me because they’re so heavily borrowing skirt silhouettes without actually being a skirt, but if I want to look like I am wearing a skirt, an actual skirt just gives a superior experience to me.
Got this option too. Totally surprised but maybe my secret desire is to be in these comfy pants.
this is very interesting! i feel like if you are say like, doing yoga, or riding a bicycle, or doing the splits, there are these advantages to having a flowy pant instead of a skirt, as it divides the legs and allows the legs to separate from each other indefinitely and most importantly covers the inner thighs and other body parts therein. but definitely when it comes to the look they are very similar.
aesthetically as a person who never ever wears skirts, i think i would probably also not wear flowy pants because they just aren’t my style, but i would feel physically comfortable in them in a way i would not feel if i was in a skirt. i just like each of my legs to have their own capsules.
all that said, leggings are definitely pants!
Cargo shorts, this is correct.
this is important