Kilt to prom on Glee tonight in prime time!

**TurboKittie** · 11th May 11, 11:16 AM

Tobus, that does raise an interesting point. This is likely the first time many American teens have seen a kilt in the media.

Last weekend, I discovered that most "drama kids" aged 14-17 at a public high school in the midwest haven't seen the film Braveheart, and really don't have much of a frame of reference for a kilt. Not just the regular kids, but the theatre kids haven't seen the film. (I know, Braveheart is not accurate in many ways, but if you were to think of a positive and well known kilted character - I would argue it would be up there on the list.) It would be a shame if they attached some sort of stigma with the kilt, but I don't think that's likely. Or I hope it's not. For one, I think that the typical audience of the show is probably not the same ones who would make derogatory comments and secondly, I'm not entirely sure the episode won't be forgotten by next Tuesday.

**Galician** · 11th May 11, 11:41 AM

I have said this before somewhere on this forum, but the leggings Coffer wore under the kilt are just as I have seen some young guys dressed at various Games I have attended.

And it isn't just kilts. Yesterday I saw a young girl wearing those same leggings under a skirt. Not for the first time.

It's a modern teenage fashion, so get used to it.

**Semiomniscient** · 11th May 11, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Galician

I have said this before somewhere on this forum, but the leggings Coffer wore under the kilt are just as I have seen some young guys dressed at various Games I have attended.

And it isn't just kilts. Yesterday I saw a young girl wearing those same leggings under a skirt. Not for the first time.

It's a modern teenage fashion, so get used to it.

Why should Tobus "get used to it" because some people are doing it?

**Bugbear** · 11th May 11, 12:02 PM

Oh dear...

**Galician** · 11th May 11, 12:13 PM

Who said I was singling out Tobus?

**Semiomniscient** · 11th May 11, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by Galician

Who said I was singling out Tobus?

**Tobus** · 11th May 11, 12:17 PM

Hey, these kids can wear whatever they want to. We really have no choice but to "get used to it". I've no issue with that.

But I do reserve the right to complain about it, just as our forefathers did about our generation's wardrobe choices when we were that age!

**Bugbear** · 11th May 11, 02:46 PM

It's strange, Tobus, my lady friends, at least the ones who know I am one of the LGBT folk, complain that I am not "swishy," or what ever term you want to use, and that many of their other gay friends are bland and boring like me. I guess it's a regional thing. * yawn *

**kc8ufv** · 11th May 11, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by Bugbear

It's strange, Tobus, my lady friends, at least the ones who know I am one of the LGBT folk, complain that I am not "swishy," or what ever term you want to use, and that many of their other gay friends are bland and boring like me. I guess it's a regional thing. * yawn *

In my poker group, some say we have the gayest straight guy (a male nurse) and the straightest gay guy (a sports loving truck driver). Also, I don't think a single person who met me at random would guess that I am part of the LGBT community. (Or the new acronym I heard, the QUILTBAGPIPE community, since everyone seems to want to keep adding letters to it)

**Bugbear** · 11th May 11, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by kc8ufv

In my poker group, some say we have the gayest straight guy (a male nurse) and the straightest gay guy (a sports loving truck driver). Also, I don't think a single person who met me at random would guess that I am part of the LGBT community. (Or the new acronym I heard, the QUILTBAGPIPE community, since everyone seems to want to keep adding letters to it)

Ehh, sometimes I set off "gaydars" or "bidars," but not very often.