"HERB BENHAM: I was built for a kilt"

[Father Bill]

I don't get it - it's NOT a feminine thing - it's the most masculine thing you can wear!

[CDNSushi]

I don't get it - it's NOT a feminine thing - it's the most masculine thing you can wear!

It very well may be, but perception of others will vary widely.

In today's news, this news story is causing some major waves from both sides of the issue. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/...ity-confusion/

I don't think that modern, Western society has yet been able to work out exactly what makes someone masculine or feminine, hence the odd reactions to something that we (us kilt-wearers) see as being absolutely the most masculine thing you can wear.

I have read, for instance, that even something as simple as associating pink with girls and blue with boys is a relatively recent (20th century) phenomenon, and that gender differentiation in the 19th century and prior occurred at an older age than it does today. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/...blue-for-girls

An excerpt from the above article:

In the 1800s most infants were dressed in white, and gender differences weren't highlighted until well after the kids were able to walk. Both boys and girls wore dresses or short skirts until age five or six.

It's no wonder then that society is confused!

[Dale Seago]

I don't think that modern, Western society has yet been able to work out exactly what makes someone masculine or feminine, hence the odd reactions to something that we (us kilt-wearers) see as being absolutely the most masculine thing you can wear.

Accessories are one solution. Wearing a historically accurate and highly functional fighting dirk with a 12- to 14-inch blade with the kilt tends to remove any doubts, while if necessary giving you the option of removing any doubters.

Yes, of course I'm being facetious here. We wouldn't ever want to have anyone mistake kilt-wearers for warriors.

And truly, having brought such a dirk into Japan myself many years ago before realizing the, um, legal potential and having to sneak it out again* I can certainly sympathize with the many who are restricted to the kilt alone.



(* Regarding sneaking it out, if the gummint didn't want me to be able to do such things they shouldn't have trained me as an intelligence officer or allowed me to train all those years in Japan with the last ninja grandmaster.)

[Dale Seago]

(* Regarding sneaking it out, if the gummint didn't want me to be able to do such things they shouldn't have trained me as an intelligence officer or allowed me to train all those years in Japan with the last ninja grandmaster.)

So I walked funny for a week. Anybody got a problem with that?

[Bugbear]

So I walked funny for a week. Anybody got a problem with that?

Yes, but I'm not man enough to say anything about it.