Best of all possible arguments

[Alan H]

I'm going to single out the couple of things that bugged me about your post. All I can say is that if you can't understand why they're annoying, I'm not really sure what to tell you.

First let me say that this server really sucks.

I seem to enjoy the time I spend at X Marks despite the horrible server, and I haven't found the need to comment on it. Occasionally someone will ask if response time is slow. Sometimes it is. Most of the time it's pretty quick. There's a difference between writing

"Has anyone else noticed that the web response time seems slow today?"

and

"the server sucks"

It won't matter to you anyway since you never did have a genuine male perspective..

To paraphrase what you wrote right there: "if you don't agree with me, then you're not a man."

That said, I have to ask the question: What the hell, gentelmen? Are you more interested in your manhood, or in conformation to a 'societal norm' that is designed to emasculate you?

Kilt-wearing does not automatically equal Manhood.

Wearing pants does not automatically make someone emasculated.

A Man may choose to wear kilts. A Man may choose to wear pants. A Man may choose to wear kilts on some day and pants on other days. Kilts/Pants has precious little to do with the measure of this mysterious thing called "Manhood" , which if you ask me, a whole lot of people spend way too much time worrying about.

I'm all for celebrating kilts, here. That's what X Marks is all about. It's a place where we celebrate the great things about kilts, and all the positive things about wearing them. It's a place where we make information available to anyone who wants to come find it, including some health issues. It's a place where guys who wear kilts in locations where nobody else ever wears one, can find a little support and encouragement.

That's fantastic.

When it turns into a place where we say that people who make different decisions from ours, and decide to wear pants are "emasculated", then I don't think that's so fantastic.

[Alan H]

Here's a completely different take on the whole thing.

If I ever get the question..."Why are you wearing a kilt?" I just tell the person the truth:

"Because I want to. It's fun and I enjoy it."

Works for me. If that doesn't work for them, that's their problem.

The next day I might be kilted or I might have pants on. I'm the one who decides.

[Freedomlover]

O.K. Alan. If my directness offended you I apologise.

[Woodsheal]

Like everyone here, I love to wear my kilts, BUT - I have no problem with pants either.
REAL MEN who have worn trousers: Gauls, Romans (after they picked `em up from the Gauls), Allimanni, Britons, Visigoths, Vandals, Huns, Franks, Picts, Irish, Scots, Frisians, Vikings, Tartars, Cossacks, etc., etc., etc.....