Rudeness

[GMan]

Greetings all,

I want to say that today being the St Patrick's Day Parade in Denver, you would think people would be more supportive than they were.

What band you play with? was a comment from one gentlemen already toasted by the Guinness, I said no band, just like to don the kilt. Oh yeah he said, you should be a band member or you are just plain weird. I said I am just plain weird and walked on.

Had a few lifters or want to be lifters, but the comments from Magnus' thread he started, aided in those responses and gave me a few huffy comments directed at me, but I kept on going.

After I met up with a few of my non kilted mates, the rudeness seemed to stop. In fact no more comments of rudeness directed at the kilt. For all the weird and rude comments came from those who were trying to impress their friends (male and female) about how "big" they are, so I was not really surprised and knew how to handle it, as I have been since being kilted.

The parade by the way was such a wonderful event. A beautiful sunny day, not a cloud in the sky and just a gentle breeze to keep the temperature very comfortable. Yes it was a lovely day for a parade

[Rubber Soul]

Comments like those are always lousy, sorry to hear. At least they stopped, though! People always find power in numbers, and often times they think it's an excuse to act like an ****...

[Rob Wright]

Glen sadly some people simply love to wallow in ignorance and even sadder people feel better acting tough and denigrating those who are brave enough to be different and stand up to opressive conformity.
In my area, for every one positive comment I recieve I also get at least twenty negatives. Our society no longer venerates knowledge but praises ignorance and blind bravado.
Ignore them walk proud and with supreme confidence knowing that you are truly an individual. They fear us, so they try to tear us down.

Rob

[akaussie]

well said Rob!

[Graham]

Glen, did you get their names and addresses?
I'll sort them out for you when I come over, we'll show them what a man in a kilt is made of!!

We have our St.Pat's parade this coming Saturday, I'll see if I fare any better. Last year I had no problem in a kilt and don't expect any hassles this year.

Kinda wish I had a plain green kilt for the occassion (or an Irish tartan).

[macgreggor]

In my area, for every one positive comment I recieve I also get at least twenty negatives. Our society no longer venerates knowledge but praises ignorance and blind bravado.
Ignore them walk proud and with supreme confidence knowing that you are truly an individual. They fear us, so they try to tear us down.

If you don't mind I think I will try to use that line...not just for kilts either!!!
BTW, the pics of the young lass can be quite distracting...not diststasteful, just distracting
MacGreggor

[Jimmy Carbomb]

Sorry about that one G!

For all the problems (albeit not very many) that Magnus gets, I still have yet to have any trouble here in the entire Northeast. That includes convenience stores in the "boonies" with young malcontents. They just don't say anything. Looks? Yup. Snide comments? Nope.

I almost always get a "nice kilt" comment. We KNOW that it's not because the people here are nicer! Maybe they're just used to it.

[Andrew Breecher]

In my area, for every one positive comment I recieve I also get at least twenty negatives.

You should move to Boston. For every negative comment I get about three hundred positive ones. I work at a bar, and not only do I get people complimenting me directly, but the other people who work there say they get people asking about me all the time as well (I guess they're too shy to ask me to my face). A common one is as people are leaving, they just say, "I love your kilt!"

What a great town.

Andrew.

[Magnus Sporrano]

For all the problems (albeit not very many) that Magnus gets, I still have yet to have any trouble here in the entire Northeast.

I should point out that the vast majority of comments I get are positive, and the vast majority of negative comments that I get are largely isolated to Delaware County, Pennsylvania. When I'm up in Chester County or Philadephia, the people are much more open minded.

As for the kilt lifting, that seems to happen more when I'm out with my colleagues and I think they may be encouraging young lasses to lift. When I'm out with the Xmarks crew, I occasionally feel the tell-tell draft of a peek from behind but full-on lifts haven't been a problem with the Xmarks gatherings.

[GMan]

This really was a first for me. It is usually always positive if I get comments at all. When I did get snide remarks, I would turn and glare and get an apology, but this really was the first time the rudeness continued.

So if all my rude comments are only three, I guess that I should not complain, but it did throw me for a loop.

3 rude comments bad,
all other comments endlessly great!