Kilts on "The View"

[Rigged]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehWv_qlKxSg

OK?

[emolas]

Btw, I'm officially calling a moratorium on people invoking Scottish kilts during a discussion on transgenderism. First of all, it's truly not relevant. Kilts aren't "skirts." They are gender-specific, and they are menswear. To use them as example of men who dress "like women" is a misrepresentation, and it just confuses the argument about what being transgender really is. It's approximately like suggesting that a woman who wears a woman's business suit is cross-dressing.

I would like to defend the OP here...
I think her "dismissal" of kilts as irrelevant in a discussion of cross-dressing is a good thing. Unlike many people who think that men who wear kilts do so to satisfy a hidden desire to dress like a woman, the author is stating clearly that kilts are for men and in no way related to women's clothes. Even her second statement, though poorly worded, is more or less true. The majority of Scottish men DON'T run around in kilts daily anymore and only wear them for special occasions (enlightened members of XMTS notwithstanding). I also saw the electricity comment as sarcasm related to the fact that it's been a long time since kilts were everyday attire. I couldn't force myself to watch the entire clip of The View (I had to stop when I felt the testosterone rapidly draining from my body) so I am only going off of the blog post but I'm sure that bunch of old hens didn't have anything good to say about it.

My family is Scottish, I have lived in Scotland, and I am married to a Scottish immigrant.

Best,
Melissa McEwan

I love this "I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black..." statement.