Research paper on Kilt discrimination, your help is needed!

**The Wizard of BC** · 14th March 08, 12:53 PM

My fee for using quotes of my wisdom is only $1000.54 per word.

The use of my image however includes a surcharge. Many women swoon at the sight of my kilted visage so there are insurance charges and such.

**Dirk Skene** · 14th March 08, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

My fee for using quotes of my wisdom is only $1000.54 per word.....

Hey Casey! take Steve up on that. It's cheap at 1/1000 the price

**Ayin McFye** · 14th March 08, 02:09 PM

Here are two articles that may help your paper. One of them is about a kid who tried to wear his kilt to school, and another is in regards to "sporran laws"

http://francis.newsvine.com/_news/20...o-school-dance

http://www.bylamoarticles.com/Articl...he-Truth/19676

**sharpdressedscot** · 14th March 08, 02:34 PM

Maybe use a few stereotypes. Steriotypical discrimination.

**Sylvain** · 15th March 08, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC

My fee for using quotes of my wisdom is only $1000.54 per word.

Warning to US residents: The Wizard lives in Canada, and that makes its wisdom even more expensive, as a Canadian dollar is more than a US dollar...

**Dirk Skene** · 14th March 08, 01:44 PM

Originally Posted by cwr89

I would like to thank everyone who is offering Ideas! I am going ahead and changing it to the discrimination of Kilt wearing and men. the Paper is about Discrimination and Predjudice. ......

Good luck with it. I would like to read it when you are done.

**walkerk** · 14th March 08, 06:14 PM

The case of Jerry Griffin at the University of California had a happy outcome. Here's a link to one page with the story:

https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/w...ltic-l&P=44023

We'll be anxiously awaiting the results of your paper. Extra points to you if you can squeeze in the word "misandry".

**Riverkilt** · 14th March 08, 06:58 PM

Seems from the various threads posted here the issue is less discrimination than it is power and control or fear.

After a couple years of being kilted at work (Federal/State funded rural mental health agency as a licensed professional counselor) I was suddenly prohibited from wearing the kilt by management. Reason, a big insurance contract was up for grabs and the "buyers" were coming to inspect the agency and staff. Fear was that somehow my being kilted would have the power to lose the contract. I did so well at the "inspection" wearing pants - turned out the lead inspector and I had many professional friends in common - I was given permission to wear kilts whenever I wanted.

Then, a few months later a mentally ill client complained (quite consistant with her diagnosos) that she was somehow offended that I wore a kilt. Again, management fear rose up and I was again banned from wearing kilts at work. The "because I say so" power and control issue rose up with the fear.

I followed company policy for grievance and successfully appealed the prohibition.

Think the link to this silly adventure was given above. But you might wish to include fear as one of the things you look at in your paper.

In Jerry Griffin's case it seemed like power and control too, but we only have the brief story there.

Good luck,

Ron

**SteveB** · 14th March 08, 07:06 PM

I am very interested in what you find. I have only had one instance of the cross-dressing perception of my wearing of the kilt. There are some fun things that do happen. While walking around the city, the attention that is drawn to the kilt itself, often leaves other items totally unnoticed. For a gag I wore a "Irish and Proud" in white on a green T-shirt, both front and back, with my solid green kilt. One hundred and twenty-two comments later. Twenty-three "Are you Scottish?", Twelve "Do you play the (bag)pipes?" Forty-one "Where is the event (concert, show, parade)? Thirty-one "Nice kilt!" Seven " you must be freezing in that thing. (Temperature was 10 f.) Five "nice skirt" ( three were in jest from people who know me), Three "The Question". A fun survey that was a gag for an otherwise boring Tuesday here in Boston.
Enjoy.

**Makeitstop** · 14th March 08, 12:51 PM

One thing you might want to consider is that often workplaces which do not allow kilts (for reasons other than saftey) do not actually have an official policy against the kilt, but act as if they did. And when the issue is raised, it is not uncommon for them to give excuses which are equally applicable to women in skirts. And as has been mentioned, they often do not treat it in the same way that they treat other traditional garments from other cultures.