So it's not a skirt (or maybe it is). And the point is...?

[davedove]

No way I can change other people's lack of education ...

Now Ron, that's not entirely accurate. A lack of education can be cured. However, as the comedian Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

Unfortunately, that leaves a lot of people that can't be fixed.

[andyfg]

Rex, thanks for a very thoughtful post. Good to read.

[switchblade5984]

Now Ron, that's not entirely accurate. A lack of education can be cured. However, as the comedian Ron White says, "You can't fix stupid."

Unfortunately, that leaves a lot of people that can't be fixed.

AGREED!

[Kilted KT]

wow...heavy topics again, and very well written, I might say.

I'm failry certain that there isn't a more overtly masculine garment than the kilt...and even the most rediculous comment can be easily turned around with an "It's a kilt", or, should the would-be insulter be of a rather distasteful ilk, a well placed glare, and that look of "You said WHAT?". I prefer the first method, but both work pretty well.

unless, of course, you are being tailed by an intoxicated lassie determined to get an answer to the question first hand...with that any way out of the situation ( if you are not in the mood to deal with it) is fair game. I've found bouncers find unending humor in escorting a lady from the bar for "agravated sexual assault" (as one put it).

As far as being compared to a woman...there are a great many men I know who I would rather not be comapred to, and some women who are so great that comparing me to them would be a disservice to the woman in question..

as long as I'm not compared to the drunken moron slobering on himself, hunched over in the corner at the pub, I'll be fine.

[Joe Gondek]

As far as being compared to a woman...there are a great many men I know who I would rather not be comapred to, and some women who are so great that comparing me to them would be a disservice to the woman in question..

as long as I'm not compared to the drunken moron slobering on himself, hunched over in the corner at the pub, I'll be fine.

Well said

[auld argonian]

Gee...to your hazing office mates I'd have to say about the same thing that I'd say to anyone who ridiculed the kilt: Sorry, I've graduated high school and moved on....go find somebody else to play with.

One of the things that comes to my mind when this topic comes up is that most of the people that I've known who have had real gender issues would probably be able to suss out the fact that a kilt wearer considers it a masculine garment. I think that folks in that situation are pretty perceptive about things like that. It's the insecure people who are trying to get a cheap laugh or a reaction out of the kiltwearer who seem to have the problem. Those folks I can do without.

Best

AA

[bangkok kilt]

wow...heavy topics again, and very well written, I might say.

I'm failry certain that there isn't a more overtly masculine garment than the kilt...and even the most rediculous comment can be easily turned around with an "It's a kilt", or, should the would-be insulter be of a rather distasteful ilk, a well placed glare, and that look of "You said WHAT?". I prefer the first method, but both work pretty well.

unless, of course, you are being tailed by an intoxicated lassie determined to get an answer to the question first hand...with that any way out of the situation ( if you are not in the mood to deal with it) is fair game. I've found bouncers find unending humor in escorting a lady from the bar for "agravated sexual assault" (as one put it).

As far as being compared to a woman...there are a great many men I know who I would rather not be comapred to, and some women who are so great that comparing me to them would be a disservice to the woman in question..

as long as I'm not compared to the drunken moron slobering on himself, hunched over in the corner at the pub, I'll be fine.

Agreed, well said KT.

Rex, very good insights. I had a group of students who saw some pictures of me kilted, thanks to the web, and were seemingly unable to handle their teacher in a 'skirt'. I told them it was a kilt, and left it at that. It's their job to learn to deal after a certain point. Hopefully they will be able to match what they know of me at school with the notion of me being kilted outside. Then again, what are you going to do about 8th grade girls!?

[Kilted KT]

...Then again, what are you going to do about 8th grade girls!?

Simple. Let them grow up to realize exactly how great the kilt is. They will learn soon enough. Then some years from now, you will bump into one of them at the shop, and hopefully they will express their adoration of the kilted teacher they had back in 8th grade!!