I was just thinking about something that happened when I was in college. This was in the mid 1960's, nearly 50 years ago. A friend of mine decided to grow a beard. It was neat, and well trimmed, not unkempt or scraggly. And my friend was not a radical. He was, in fact, rather conservative. When he went home for Christmas, his family's reaction to the beard was quite negative. In fact his grandfather told him sadly, that he never thought he would see the day when a member of his family would grow a beard.
From today's perspective, this seems just nuts. Why would anyone care about someone growing a beard? But at the time, the grandfather's reaction would have been understandable to anyone, young or old. And no one would have been surprised by it.
Now fast forward to today. Suppose a male college student came home for Christmas wearing a dress. It's not too hard to imagine his grandfather telling him sadly, that he never thought he would see the day when a male member of his family would wear a dress.
In fifty years will the reaction to the dress become just as incomprehensible as the reaction to the beard is now? I wonder.