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Gender Bendery

Some Like it Hot, but Not These Firefighters

by Susana Polo | 1:22 pm, March 22nd, 2012


These mild-mannered Minnesotan firemen were 100% off-duty last weekend, appearing in Sauk Centre’s St. Patrick’s Day parade wearing dresses in order to raise money for charity (no, we don’t have any more details than that). This meant that when a truck fire started up just yards from where they were waiting to march off, instead of waiting for the nearest available fire department to travel the fifteen miles to get there, they got to work. From a safe distance where they wouldn’t be hindered by their lack of a firefighter’s normal safety equipment.

Showing once again that there’s nothing unmanly about appearing feminine.

(Stuff.co.nz via Best Week Ever.)

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  • Anonymous

    It’s the way they keep hiking up the front of the dresses, lest they be exposed, that just makes it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/efern86 Emily Elizabeth Fern

    That’s so funny! My family is from there! Grandparents are buried there.. I love small towns :)

  • Alicia Little

    Yeah Minnesota!

  • Frodo Baggins

    “Showing once again that there’s nothing unmanly about appearing feminine.”

    But… but… that’s still buying into the false equivalency of stereotypical gender roles. You mean there’s nothing weak or passive about appearing feminine. It is, by definition, unmanly.

  • Life Lessons

    Huzzah!!

  • Anonymous

    Mary Sue, the classic film lover in me greatly appreciates that headline! <3

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