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    James MacMillan is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Being old, ugly, bald, bearded and fat, I don't think anyone would accuse me of cross-dressing, even if I had on a bridal gown…

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    Hmmm! Sounds like my Great Grandmother Thusela. Just joking, just joking, I couldn't help it.
    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Being old, ugly, bald, bearded and fat, I don't think anyone would accuse me of cross-dressing, even if I had on a bridal gown…
    I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
    Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…

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    James MacMillan is offline Membership Revoked for repeated rule violations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ted Crocker View Post
    Hmmm! Sounds like my Great Grandmother Thusela. Just joking, just joking, I couldn't help it.
    I remember a friend once saying that he liked dating ugly women, but that he drew the line on women who had a bigger mustache than he did....

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    Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
    Being old, ugly, bald, bearded and fat, I don't think anyone would accuse me of cross-dressing, even if I had on a bridal gown…
    I don't know, maybe if you were wearing a wedding gown AND veil......
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    I've never been accused of cross-dressing. The very occasional "nice skirt" from the ignorant but that is about it.

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    I've heard someone call it "cross dressing with an excuse" and I must say that the fact that it was made for men and has been worn by men for centuries is one hell of an excuse.

    That was an extreme case involving someone who has some severe psychological issue with the kilt which I do not fully understand. I can say however that I can understand how people can see a kilt as bordering on cross dressing. In their minds, skirts are for women, and a kilt is a skirt. When it is not being worn at some sort of scottish event but instead is worn as normal clothing, many people will not think of the cultural context and therefore in their minds it's just a skirt and thus it is cross dressing. It's just a snap judgment based on their own culture's arbitrary distinctions between male and femal clothing. Most reasonable people can overcome such thinking (or lack thereof) when you simply explain that is a male garment, like many others which have been worn by men for thousands of years and that it is a pathetic man whose masculinity is dependent on the shape of the fabric he uses to cover his dangly parts.

    And again, to be fair, not everyone is familiar with the kilt and most definitely not with the accessories. Personally, I don't find hose and flashes to be particularly masculine (just my personal view) and I've even heard it argued that my kilt is feminine because of all the pleats, which this person had not known to be part of the kilt.

    In the end it all comes down to ignorance. What separates the excusable misunderstandings from the arrogant ******** is the willingness to be enlightened.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Makeitstop View Post
    I've heard someone call it "cross dressing with an excuse" and I must say that the fact that it was made for men and has been worn by men for centuries is one hell of an excuse.
    Now that sounds like something my mother in law would say if she got the chance but seriously I think there will probably always be a few who think wearing the kilt is an excuse for a man to wear a skirt...therefore it is cross dressing.

    Interesting how we don't consider a woman to be cross dressing if she was to wear men's clothing. Now just thinking, a woman wearing pants that are made for women is not cross dressing but if she was to wear pants made for a man then I think it would be...so if a woman wears a kilt (obviously a garment made for a man) is she cross dressing? I think the whole band uniform bit is different though, because it is a uniform.

    No offence to our the ladies here who wear a kilt, I'm just bring up the question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chef View Post
    Interesting how we don't consider a woman to be cross dressing if she was to wear men's clothing.
    No, we don't. We call her fashionable.

    We think it's romantic if the lady dons her date's shirt the morning after. If he dons hers, well, there won't be another date, probably.

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    Isn't that a bit hypocritical?

    If a woman wears a man's clothing, it's nothing but fashion. Yet, when a man wear a kilt (even though it was made for men) and people call it a "skirt," they say it's cross-dressing.

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    Folks,

    Anyone who thinks a man wearing a kilt of cross dressing is ignorant.

    Anyone who goes out of his way to accuse a kilt wearer of cross dressing is rude.

    Anyone who is informed that a kilt is a male garment and doesn't accept it is stupid.

    And frankly, they not really worth spending a lot of time worrying about.

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