Quote Originally Posted by philibeg
Welfare whiners? Atheists? Is everyone you feel falls into those catagories instantly and irrevocably an idiot? Are people who don't wear kilts idiots?

Can we not be tolerant towards others, as we would have others be tolerant towards us? Doesn't the Bible say something about turning the other cheek?

We are all just people, failible, mortal. Can't we be just a bit nice to one another?
As we say over in my sailing forum....WORD!

as in....right on bro!

My goal is not to force everyone or convince everyone to wear kilts. My goal is to wear what I want, treat others with decency and respect, and be treated the same way.

Right now kilt-wearing men are an invisible minority in the world. What percentage of men in the world wear kilts? We don't like it when people treat us as "different" or "weird" or make assumptions which simply have no basis in fact about us because they see a piece of cloth belted around our waist. For us, the microscopic minority, to then turn around and view the rest of the world that doesn't wear kilts as spineless sub-specimens simply because they don't choose to dress like we do is ...well.... it's nuts.

Independent minded guys might choose to wear kilts. Other independent minded guys might NOT choose to wear kilts. I know that I don't want to be judged by nothing but the fact that I choose wear a kilt. I'm not too keen on being lumped into some generalized box based on nothing but cartoons about Scottish guys or gay men.

So it then behooves me to not turn around and judge someone else solely on the fact that they DON'T wear a kilt.

BTW it takes 20-30 years for a "new thing" to become "mainstream"in the USA. Well, except for womens fashions which come and go on a bi-monthly basis, it seems.