'Stick In The Muds'

[brandycr]

Been lucky here .Seen a few as a really small child then its like they disappeared from view for 20 or so years .Since they started the games up around here been seeing more and more so lucky me!Maybe it will continue to be seen more and more because they always bring a smile to my face.

[Alan H]

Around here the only large segment of the population that doesn't "get it" is Hispanic. I get a lot of "looks" and the guys in the Cafe right next to my office laugh about it all the time, though they're cool with me, personally. It's just that men wearing anything but pants is totally outside of their culture.

Interestingly, many young men in the South Pacific Islander community that I met while substitute-teaching in the local high schools have no problem with kilt-wearing at all. These are BIG kids, and tough, but they are completely blase about it...total non-issue.

So around here I don't think it's "open-mindedness" of any cultural group, it's education....Just my dos centavos.

[Perldog007]

I do feel for the OP. I live in central Delaware and work on the western shore of Maryland. Not kilted country, nor terribly progressive.

Many people here seem to assume that I am a cross-dresser. They don't seem to want to trifle with 315 lb cross-dressers though. Twice now thrill-seeking daredevils have remarked about the "nice skirt". They both got served, and all walked away the better for the exchange. (at least they left aware of the folly engaging unarmed in a battle of wits)

Most of the folk in my neighborhood I associate with during my time off are Americans of African descent. My neighbors seem terribly unconcerned with what I am wearing, any comments from my social set seem to be confined to heritage with a nod for representing mine own.

Most of the people we work with and around could generously be described as "bucolic" and they have a range of reactions centered around the "skirt" hang up. The fellows with no issues about their own masculinity don't seem to question mine. The converse also presents as true.

People who know me already consider me as being a bit off keel. Those who don't just assume so.

This newbie's wish is that we will see the day when a man wears what he wants and it's all right. Especially a kilt. We should all turn down a glass and welcome that day hoping to speed it's arrival.

[kilted in kleaveland]

Someone more intelligent than I once said " Those that mind don"t matter, those that matter don"t mind "

[emolas]

Someone more intelligent than I once said " Those that mind don"t matter, those that matter don"t mind "

Well said!

[Sir Robert]

When war broke out with Iraq, The US Military went on high alert expecting terriorist attacks on US installations. My job was to guard, very descreetly, the housing areas off post in Germany 12 hours per day 7 days per week for months (Another team covered the other 12.) Sitting in a cold van watching those appartments.

On my time off I was often kilted. Well in the PX one day a little teeny bopper Army dependant called me "An old perv." behind my back. At that moment I really regreted having spent so very many hours keeping her alive.

Thanks to X-Marks today I have a lot of snappy come-backs, like "I'm not old" but at the time I was just seathing mad.

[windowlikcer]

ya over here in the states you deal with rednecks saying look at that queer (the homophobia in the states is appaling at times) in the dress, ect... but most of the time people ask me if im a foreign exchange student from scotland...wich i find amusing haha

[Phil]

It's definitely a culture thing and doing what people expect. I suppose wearing anything other than a tartan kilt would be looked on as strange in Scotland too. People have very conservative ideas about how men should dress and look generally and anything out of the ordinary is criticised. Doesn't seem to happen for women no matter what weird and wonderful things they wear.