Woman Laugh but Men are Arrested

[Riverkilt]

True, but in my case - if you knew this lady and her sword-like tongue, heard her tone, and experienced her general attitude of malice towards males - you'd understand her comment was malicious, not curious.

[Sir William]

A few years ago a woman asked if she could check under my kilt and I replied, "yes, but only if I can do the same to you." She replied, "That's disgusting!", then followed with, "I deserved that. I wasn't thinking."

[uncle remus]

I had a woman ask me the same question while waiting addmittance to a renn fair. she had a male companion and I was with my wife. My reply to her was "nothings worn under there it all works perfectly" Her face got bright red and her companion laughed.

[Jack Daw]

Some years back when I was wearing kilts to work (a mental health agency), a fellow therapist - and out lesbian - stopped me in the hallway of the agency and asked, "How do you take a s--t in that thing?" I was floored. My response was, "If I asked you the same question I'd be fired and lose my license to practice." Her eyes got huge and she left and never again commented. Ironically, she was one of the few women at the agency who regularly wore skirts. Maybe she was jealous.

The only time anyone has gone hands on with me was at Pride in the Pines in Flagstaff some years ago. A young college age guy, very intoxicated, mumbled something along the lines of "the question" and ran his hand up my kilt. He had to bend over to do it so I just spun away from him and he crashed face first onto the sidewalk. He was laying on the sidewalk, quite content to be stabilized, when I walked away.

As far as booze releasing the true character, I disagree. Many years of hard boozing myself and the last 25 years as an addictions counselor have taught me that booze makes humans crazy and stupid, but what they do intoxicated is no more them than if you got a dog, or a sheep, or a pig drunk. The animal will do stupid things before it passes out, but the animal's drunken behavior is not the true character of the animal. Our true character comes out when we're sober. The bizarre insanity happens when we're drunk....but its the chemical effect of alcohol on the human brain, not our true character.

Well said.

[harmon]

I have had this happen twice. Once was at the grocery store with my 15 year old stepson. The cashier, around mid to late 50s, walked around the register and actually began lifting my kilt to "see" what I had on underneath. My stepson got really mad. I smacked her hand away and said there is nothing to see under there. The second time my wife took care of it for me. Though I've never been asked to prove it when I answer the inevitable question.
Not sure why women think it's okay to simply lift a kilt up when we would go to jail for lifting a dress or skirt. Luckily it's never happened when my daughter was with me.

[FinnKilt]

I've been asked 'the question' many times and usually reply with some amusing but glib response.
... I asked the woman why she felt it appropriate to help herself to my very personal space. She replied that I was only wearing the kilt to draw attention to myself and it's probably what I wanted her to do...

An interesting view-point...

This is actually very similar to the argument that a woman shouldn't wear a short skirt if she isn't 'looking for it'.
Two nights ago I was with friends in a pub in Turku, Finland (one of my two home towns) and a moderately tipsy woman asked me, in Finnish, if I was going commando. I've never heard the phrase before in Finnish, so she had to repeat it twice before I understood what she was saying. I pointed out that in reverse (i.e. man to woman) this would be sexual harassment – "Not nowadays", she said. I don't know what 'nowadays' she's living in, but it certainly isn't mine.

Once on Piccadilly Gardens in central Manchester (UK) a teenage lad came and said his friend was too shy to ask me himself – the other lad was hovering some ten metres away. I felt quite sorry for the one who came and asked me, so I said he should tell his mate to come and lie down on the ground, and then he'd be able to see for himself. They made a hasty exit.

And yes, I wear underwear, usually black. It's a hygiene thing, it seems to me. Just because underwear hadn't reached the Scottish Highlands two hundred and fifty years ago doesn't mean we should boycott it today.

Steve's story should be circulated as widely as possible, pour décourager les autres.

[ibrew4u]

Just because underwear hadn't reached the Scottish Highlands two hundred and fifty years ago doesn't mean we should boycott it today.

hyvin sanottu, ystäväni (well said, my friend)

[Terry Searl]

Has anyone had a perfect stranger (woman) ask them what they are wearing under their kilt? This has happened to me several times, first in my Costco store by a Costco employee, then at a surplus store while shopping for a wide belt. I mean no shame or anything "do you have underwear on" and last week I had a lady lift up my kilt while in the elevator asking her friend if she thought I had the legs for wearing a kilt. I told her she could get arrested and she replied "not a chance" woman are exempt don't you know.

A guy could get arrested for these actions. I am not really bothered but it makes for interesting conversation. PS I always wear dark undies just in case.

I had two ladies come up to me in a restaurant and say....We are curious
I said Shoes'
One lady said in a surprised voice ...SHOES?
I said yes I'm often asked by ladies what am I wearing under my kilt .....and I reply shoes
They were a both a bit redfaced but the first lady OH NO ....we were wondering what the tartan is ! Ha! ha!
VICTORIA, City of Gardens, and then we had a very nice chat about the tartan and who designed it........we all went away smiling

[O'Callaghan]

As a teenager, we would often look up girls' skirts or touch them under the skirt. This was over fourty years ago, and back then the expected response was a hearty slap around the face. This all stopped when we were given a collective warning in assembly by a teacher. Nowadays it would be considered a police matter.

It just occurred to me, that a man caught slapping a woman who reached under his kilt would probably also end up being prosecuted instead of her. Not that that would even occur to anyone to do, but even so ...

As a teenager, I don't think we would have minded if the girls had molested us, but they never did. It seems you have to put on a kilt!

[thescot]

On a cruise several years ago, a somewhat intoxicated fellow asked me in a loud voice what I was wearing under my kilt. He was obviously being cute in front of a couple of other guys and a few ladies.

So I quickly responded, "Your wife' lipstick," and kept walking. The other fellows laughed at him, and he said, "I guess I had that coming." And I told him, "Yes, you did."

Several other times over the years, females has asked the question, and I usually offer the glib "welcome to check if you're woman enough" or some such thing, mainly because I won't let them think I'm embarrassed. That would only give them a win that I refuse to render.

Mostly, people like to see a man in a kilt, and the event often engenders a pleasant discussion of some family member, a friend who was kilted, etc.