Child's comment: Mom, he's wearing a skirt

**Dreadbelly** · 2nd June 05, 03:32 PM

Go for the knees!!!

**motorman4life** · 3rd June 05, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Doc Hudson

Better be ready to fight if you use that line.
Not that it's not a good one, just that around here, it would probably lead to fisticuffs. So remember, hit hard, hit fast, and fight dirty.

Hey, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen! Right? If some idiot wants to call me a fag for wearing a kilt, he should at least be ready for me to turn it back around on him!

Oh, and before the fists fly, you can bet I'll be reminding him that he'd better consider that he will be the one that will have to bear the shame of getting his *** kicked by a guy in a skirt! After that, it's no-holds-barred!

**Dreadbelly** · 3rd June 05, 10:09 AM

That flash of n00dity during the high kicks really takes 'em by suprise.

**Dreadbelly** · 3rd June 05, 10:10 AM

Somebody needs to fix that daggum smiley

**macgreggor** · 4th June 05, 03:36 AM

i helped chaperone a local after school group to an end of school swim party yesterday.i must have been around these kids too much. someone from outside the group asked the inevetible, "dude why are you wearing a dress?" a bunch of the kids were standing around watching so i just turned and pointed with both hands (kinda like leading a choir). i got a group, "IT"S A KILT!"
(snif)...makes it all worth while :-)
macG

**GMan** · 4th June 05, 04:48 AM

MacG that was great. Just wish I could see the "dudes" face after all those kids said it in unison.

**T90 Tim** · 4th June 05, 08:53 AM

Rick, I've had the same thing happen a couple times over the last couple years, but one that sticks in my memory is when a little girl ask her dad why I was wearing a skirt. He said that it wasn't a skirt, it was a kilt. She looked at him with a confused look and asked "what is a kilt?", now the father was the one with the confused look as he tried to find the right words to explain a kilt. I leaned over and said "a kilt is a skirt for a man". The little girl got a big smile on her face and was satisfied with the answer. Later I heard her point me out saying "there's that man in a kilt again!"

In my experience most younger kids are confused until it is explained to them, most teens think they are cool and most adults handle it. About the only crowd I've ever heard comments are from the young adults 18-24-ish males that need to make the queer or gay comment to sound tough, usually under their breathe so only their friends can hear. So far no one has had the courage to say anything out loud in a crowd or straight to me, 'course it probably helps that at 6'6" 225lbs, I am bigger than most who would comment.

**Rigged** · 4th June 05, 10:52 AM

I may have posted this before, but I had a similar encounter with a young girl (wearing jeans, of course). I smiled and told her that if I was wearing pants I'd be dressed like a little girl.

**Rick** · 4th June 05, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by T90 Tim

...one that sticks in my memory is when a little girl ask her dad why I was wearing a skirt. He said that it wasn't a skirt, it was a kilt. She looked at him with a confused look and asked "what is a kilt?", now the father was the one with the confused look as he tried to find the right words to explain a kilt. I leaned over and said "a kilt is a skirt for a man". The little girl got a big smile on her face and was satisfied with the answer...

This is fantastic. All I can say is: isn't English a great language, we do not have to deal with all of those engendered nouns as in other languages.

Rick

**Sylvain** · 5th June 05, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

This is fantastic. All I can say is: isn't English a great language, we do not have to deal with all of those engendered nouns as in other languages.

Rick

Could you explain the link you see between the story and the language
in which it occured? As a native French speaker, I don't see any.