Garment Names For Dummies

[Abax]

WOOPS!
I think I'm the one what drug this one doon from the attic!
Guess that's what happens when first-week newbies go phishing around for keyword threads!
My apologies to everyone!
Should I sit in the corner, or would KP duty all o' tomorrow be pennance enough?

I figure if old threads weren't eligible for comments, Jamie would have locked 'em down Welcome!

Abax

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . . 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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[Rex_Tremende]

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.

Regards,
Rex.

[Kiltman]

I don't generally bother about what a kilt is called. What's that old children's rhyme? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never harm me." In this case, it's true, whatever one calls a kilt it won't change my reasons for wearing one, I sure find a compliment from a woman about how good I look or that other men should wear kilts too is enough to keep this old lad happy.

[Bugbear]

"Cognitive dissonance:" the story of my life.

Things have changed a bit from when I was growing up though...

[Highlander31]

My response to the skirt comment is dependent on the demeanor of the person making the comment.