Quote Originally Posted by Abax
..... Stan is one of three - out of more than a hundred at work - for whom my kilt has revealed who they really are. The other two people I would have never expected to be so hostile towards something they didn't understand. Their vitriol strikes me as being in the same vein as the intolerance that leads to things like racism. The hostility they've shown when I'm dressed in a kilt was surprising.
Kilts affect people - plain and simple.

Upbringing, family life, social conditioning, relationships with the opposite gender, self confidence, personality type, and many other factors affect peoples judgement and behaviour towards kilts . People tend to rely on a rigid set of rules to evaluate the world, themselves, and their place in it. It's partly how we survive as a species.

Certain people tend to react more strongly than others. When you break their rules, they react. But it's not easy being tolerant toward the obnoxious and the ignorant. To a degree, I suppose they are to be pittied for their pettiness.

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