Quote Originally Posted by KiltShot View Post
People who seem to care may be trying to save me embarrassment from the people who don't care and tease or insult.
There is often an honest, caring motive behind telling someone not to wear a kilt, or come out of the closet, or date someone of another colour or ethnic/religious background, or study medieval literature (to cite a few of the "please don'ts" that those who love me have uttered), but that motive is always sadly inseparable from a sense of personal preservation: when it comes down to it, folks are most worried about their own reputation, not yours. And they tend to come around when they discover that your reputation doesn't actually suffer, or simply that what you've done actually makes you (and/or others) happy.