Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian
Well, I went to high school back in the middle sixties and it would have been an incredibly tough thing to do...it was a boys' high school and the really cutting insults were those that dealt directly with one's sexual orientation...in retrospect this is sort of funny because I've subsequentally found out that not a few of my classmates were, in fact, gay.

But the problem was that it was high school, we were all in our teen years and insecure and the times were different. You wore a sweater that was "too pretty" and you got called every derrogatory name for a homosexual you could think of...so you could only imagine what would happen if you wore a kilt. It was not at all fair but what do you expect from a bunch of puppies fighting for position in the pack order?

I knew a couple of guys who were active in Irish step dancing back in grammar school...they had kilts as part of their outfits...they got out of it right quickly by the time they got to high school. The funny thing is that now my own son knows a kid in his high school that has attained a bit of notariety because of his Irish step dancing...I bet that this kid thanks Michael Flatley every day of his life for Riverdancing in pants instead of the kilt. I would have never had the nerve to wear the kilt in high school...all credit to the guys who do it now..they have thicker skin than I had back then.

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I was in high school in the late 50s to early 60s. Kilts would have definitely been asking for trouble back then, Heck, the girls didn't even wear pants then. No one wore jeans and all of the girls wore skirts or dresses. In some ways, I think it was better.