Kilts and Self-Identity

[staticsan]

I'm also intrigued at how many people responded to this thread and didn't say anything at all about whether kilts and kilt-wearing had anything to do with their self image. That was, after all, My whole point. I'm not angry or upset at that, just intrigued at how many people either wrote down a list of things theat they feel "define them"...or said "I am ME" and little else, or cracked a joke...but nowhere in there was a mention of kilts.

No, kilts, don't define me. Or, to put it another way, take away my kilts and you won't change me.

But kilts (and skirts) are an expression of what I am, however. It's very hard to define how you would be that you would choose to go kilted, I must add. In today's society, there is a certain streak of individuality and non-conformist that would need to be there to wear a kilt - and I say that remembering my audience, because we can 'retreat' into X Marks so easily and forget that our desire to be apart and the common way we've chosen to do that - i.e. kilts - is what has brought us together.

Wade.