Why are people ???

**Andrew Green** · 2nd December 06, 04:47 AM

I wear my kilts around campus often enough, and no one has said anything negative about it. Most of the guys are like "hey, badass" or "it takes balls to wear a kilt" and such to that effect. Most of my lady associates usually just tell me that I look nice, and for the most part, my professors don't bother much either way... save for a time in SOCS185 when we were talking about race and ethnicity...in which case my professor looked at me and asked "Scottish American?". My reply "Anglo-Scottish"... that was a fun class, with a fair amount of humour (my professor for that one was very knowledgable in the realm of sociology, and quite good natured).

I have rarely gotten negative comments out and about. The one time I did, I confronted the kid on it, and he nearly crapped his pants. Just the whole respect other cultures and what not ordeal... I mean... everyone spouts the whole "respect others' cultures" rhetoric, but only care if it is their particular culture that isn't being respected. So it is a great way to pin someone and make them feel like a jackass for not keeping the mouth shut.

9 times out of 10, I don't care if people are dumbfounded by the kilt. The 1 out of 10 usually ends up in a brief conversation with someone because it is relatively out of the ordinary.

**Jimmy the Celt** · 2nd December 06, 08:24 AM

The kilt is a bit of a novelty to the general public, and that is something we have to accept when we decide to wear the kilt. People don't really care what you are wearing, after all [unless it is an offensive image or statement, maybe], and if people think the kilt is strange . . . well, today's youth dresses more strangely than ever--I'd even say they look ridiculous--but they can wear what they like, and so can we.

~James