re: Zelenskyy wearing a Black T-shirt meeting General Keith Kellogg today!!! No RESPECT shown!

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Politics gradually is becoming celebrity gossip for dudes, and celebrity gossip previously was reserved for women.

Imagine our fathers imagining the day when their sons would be talking about OMG what was he wearing.

Each generation is becoming progressively more soft and effiminate.

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You almost make a good point... yet don't.

What you wear to some functions matter.

As someone who was in the military, I can assure you that wearing the correct uniform and ensuring that uniform fits well, is clean, etc. has nothing to do with being effeminate-- or masculine for that matter. It's a matter of decorum and etiquette. It's a matter of pride, dignity, and respect for the position you hold and the people you represent.

And lest you think the military is a special case, think about legal proceedings. It's not a problem if you meet your attorney on the weekend to discuss your case and he shows up wearing a black t-shirt or a budweiser t-shirt. But how would you feel if he showed up to court to defend you wearing the same t-shirt? Most people would be pissed off... because it would suggest to the judge and the court at large that he doesn't take your case seriously.

Moving on to Zelensky, if this were an informal meeting at Camp David or Mar-a-Lago, a black t-shirt wouldn't be terrible. But meeting in the halls of government to negotiate geopolitical issues is a different matter. And when he has at least put on some sort of jacket to meet other world leaders in the past, but chooses to wear a t-shirt in front of American dignitaries today, he is making a tacit statement. It is disrespectful.

The only part of your post that is true is that our fathers wouldn't have talked about it. They would've been more inclined to throw you out themselves if you showed up to an event being inappropriate.