I'd like to see the kilt makers take a more active role in promoting positive images of kilt-wearing men on television.

I can't imagine a better way to gain more public acceptance of kilts as everyday wear for men. Many people don't know what a kilt is, or have never seen one (I know this because people have told me so). Many people don't know the difference between a dress and a skirt, let alone the difference between and skirt and a kilt.

So far, it's been up to each of us individually to promote the social acceptance of kilts as normal men's wear. We've been told to "just wear it" as a way of educating people about kilts. That approach didn't work for women when they wanted acceptance wearing pants. Just wearing it doesn't teach people anything, but permits people to hold onto their preconceptions (Women who wear pants are dykes. Men who wear skirts are fags).

It took a popular female character in a popular television series (Mary Tyler Moore as devoted wife and mother, "Laura Petrie" in "The Dick Van Dyke Show") wearing pants on the air (showing that women who wore pants weren't necessarily motorcycle-riding, leather-clad, ball-busting dykes) that gave women the public support they needed to make pants-wearing acceptable. This was a time when pants were symbolic of masculinity and authority, hence the question, "Who wears the pants around here?"

I think we men need something similar, otherwise each of us will be accepted and tolerated, but only as eccentric oddities.

Rigged AKA "The Kilt Guy"