Straight Talk

[YoungMan]

Too bad you weren't in a kinguisse. It pleats both ways.

[Bugbear]

You should have checked out the men too. That would really have made them wonder.

Too bad you weren't in a kinguisse. It pleats both ways.

Pink and blue tartan, of course.

[BroosterB1]

Too bad you weren't in a kinguisse. It pleats both ways.

Bravo!ith:

[BroosterB1]

Too bad you weren't in a kinguisse. It pleats both ways.

Really funny thing is most my gay friends think I'm a little daft for wearing a kilt; my wife thinks "well if you must", but most of the women I meet like the kilt! In the words of Robert A. Heinlein "What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!"ith:

[ohiopiper]

Had to edit a comment since upon re-reading it may have come across political or whatnot.



I just find it a little sad and a little amusing that people think your sexual orientation has any bearing on them. Mine has no bearing on anyone but my wife. Even when I was single, it wouldn't have mattered to most gals whether I was straight or not. What makes anyone think it's their business, unless you're causing a disturbance? And disturbance causing is not related to orientation, just being immature.

[BoldHighlander]

It is a shame that when a man wears manly attire he is thought be gay.

I related in another thread about my experience with some friends at a Christmas party last week. While most of my friends were okay (& even excited) with me in a kilt, one male friend, originally from San Antonio, was visibly uncomfortable by being any where near me in a kilt (I made sure to stand near him often ).

He's a bit of a "good ol' boy", and though nothing was said, I got the impression he thinks its less than manly to wear the kilt. At one point, as I returned from the washroom, I heard him say something about my being gone "adjusting my dress". I just let it roll off my shoulders & didn't even acknowledge I heard him (he wasn't going to rain on my parade! ).

I'm sure he wonders about me now, despite about 10 years of knowing me & my wife! Whatever, he was in the minority with his feelings that night.

What I thought was really cool was that my 11 yr old daughter (Shannon) told me that his 12 yr old daughter asked Shannon why I was wearing a skirt, to which Shannon replied "its not a skirt, its a kilt!"

[OC Richard]

I just find it a little sad and a little amusing that people think your sexual orientation has any bearing on them. Mine has no bearing on anyone but my wife.

But people do like to flirt! And oftentimes flirting is harmless fun.

The story in the original post reminds me of something that happened a while back when a group of us- four pipers and two drummers- were playing in a bar.

There was a long table with a good-sized group of men and women sitting at it. Out of the blue, when the band took a break, an attractive woman from that table came up to me and said "half of us are hoping that you're gay and the other half is hoping that you're straight".

I was surprised and embarrased and could only reply "I don't know what to say".

I did, at the time, think exactly what Ohio Piper said: what did it matter to them? But it was harmless and they were just having a good time.

[ForresterModern]

No doubt about my "orientation" usually exists when I show up in a bar/restaurant kilted with my beautiful blond wife and blue-eyed two year old in tow, but then I never get the joy of having the type of increased and altered activity and behavior you experienced, either. Less attention is fine with me, so a worthy tradeoff.

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[Jimmy]

With the train of thought that wearing a kilt makes you a possible gay man, then the great majority of Scottish males who have worn the kilt at some time in their life would be gay. I'm sure that the kilt is an equally attractive mode of dress for either a gay or straight man.
Come to think of it any time I have been in a gay bar or club in Glasgow, I have yet to see a man in a kilt, me being the only kiltie!
I would not like to tell my fellow members of the Tartan Army that they could be interpreted as gay, in fact I don't think anyone would have the courage to suggest this to them.

[Lyle1]

Had to edit a comment since upon re-reading it may have come across political or whatnot.



I just find it a little sad and a little amusing that people think your sexual orientation has any bearing on them. Mine has no bearing on anyone but my wife. Even when I was single, it wouldn't have mattered to most gals whether I was straight or not. What makes anyone think it's their business, unless you're causing a disturbance? And disturbance causing is not related to orientation, just being immature.

Exactly!