Cross-Dressing????

[Makeitstop]

I've heard someone call it "cross dressing with an excuse" and I must say that the fact that it was made for men and has been worn by men for centuries is one hell of an excuse.

That was an extreme case involving someone who has some severe psychological issue with the kilt which I do not fully understand. I can say however that I can understand how people can see a kilt as bordering on cross dressing. In their minds, skirts are for women, and a kilt is a skirt. When it is not being worn at some sort of scottish event but instead is worn as normal clothing, many people will not think of the cultural context and therefore in their minds it's just a skirt and thus it is cross dressing. It's just a snap judgment based on their own culture's arbitrary distinctions between male and femal clothing. Most reasonable people can overcome such thinking (or lack thereof) when you simply explain that is a male garment, like many others which have been worn by men for thousands of years and that it is a pathetic man whose masculinity is dependent on the shape of the fabric he uses to cover his dangly parts.

And again, to be fair, not everyone is familiar with the kilt and most definitely not with the accessories. Personally, I don't find hose and flashes to be particularly masculine (just my personal view) and I've even heard it argued that my kilt is feminine because of all the pleats, which this person had not known to be part of the kilt.

In the end it all comes down to ignorance. What separates the excusable misunderstandings from the arrogant ******** is the willingness to be enlightened.