It's not a criticism, I assume it's quite common for people on the autistic spectrum to analyse things that are usually just accepted by the vast majority of people without question? For instance I was often laughed at when I grew up for refusing to be interested in fashion which in modern society like many things is mainly created by the media, yes, there has always been fashion, but without the media things changed much slower. Now they even often sponsor celebrities to wear new trends they want to sell each season to show off on the media, then for some reason many people abandon their perfectly good wardrobe to buy yet another very expensive one because they have a strange urge to copy them. Then we get many people who must spend much more to buy a specific brand name because it's apparently the brand to be seen wearing, even when something with a lessor known brand costs a fraction of the price and could also be considered just as good quality they won't even contemplate buying it, this seems like a symbol of status.
Tuxes and suits also seem to be more of a symbol of status and in this case also class, E.g. I'm better than you because I've got a more expensive suit or tux, even though it's purely cosmetic, I see class systems as prejudice against certain people and even though they still exist, thankfully they're not as heavily enforced as they used to be years ago, well not in the UK at least. Sometimes however things like tuxes are odd as everyone looks almost identical even though we are all unique, I honestly can't understand the appeal and in the past on occasions where I've been forced to dress up I've felt very uncomfortable. I even hated being forced to wear a school uniform, plus they force parents that are sometimes struggling to make ends meet to spend stupid amounts of money on them that could have been spent on what are in my opinion more practical things, at least the USA have mostly got this right since most of their schools don't have very strict uniform restrictions like in the UK.
Most night clubs even just 25 to 30 years ago in the UK used to force men to wear the minimum of smart formal trousers, long sleeved shirt, tie, shoes and a very smart jacket (E.g. a blazer) and even many pubs enforced very smart dress. For some reason they used to think it reduced the chances of drunken violence, but these days they've actually realised that this isn't the case because places with minimum dress restrictions were found to have no more trouble and often had even less. I also used to think it was sexist because the men were often forced to all look virtually identical with very strict rules, while women where given much more freedom.
PS: A tie is one of the most useless pieces of clothing ever invented, what use is it? All it does is make you feel uncomfortable lol!
