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    Quote Originally Posted by motorman4life View Post
    . . . when idiots choose to contemptuously and mockingly label your kilt a skirt, . . . they are trying to disparage the wearer . . . by demeaning the kilt as being a common women’s skirt. . . .
    They are also implicitly disparaging women indiscriminately, which is further strong evidence of their bigotted, defective judgement, and of their essential insecurity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian.MacAllan View Post
    They are also implicitly disparaging women indiscriminately, which is further strong evidence of their bigotted, defective judgement, and of their essential insecurity.
    Well, since we're dredging up old posts, I had some thoughts once on this very issue. I still think that the skirt comments are borne of misogyny, and to react negatively to such things only perpetuates the problem.

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