Why are people ???

[Mike1]

They don't understand people who choose to stand out. It makes them uncomfortable, maybe because it shows them how much of themselves they've compromised for the sake of conformity.

Rigged, I see your logic and it makes good sense. However, I think threads like this are started because kilted men are not consciously choosing to stand out. Granted that choice is being made, but a lot of fellows don't make it a conscious choice.

Gentlemen, remember your reaction when you saw your first mini-skirt? Or string bikini? Did you stare, or at least make more than a passing glance? The lassies wearing them were simply dressed differently than what you were used to seeing.

Did you think you looked different, the first time you saw your kilted reflection in a mirror? In most locales, society is not used to seeing a man in a kilt. So the stares and looks come as part of the territory.

[Captain]

Gentlemen, remember your reaction when you saw your first mini-skirt? Or string bikini? Did you stare, or at least make more than a passing glance? The lassies wearing them were simply dressed differently than what you were used to seeing.

Trust me... I wasn't staring because it was different from what I was used to seeing... I was staring because I was 13 and there was a whole lot of skin showing!

[nixphotography]

Intresting story, I was eating lunch with my mother and neice. Got ready to leave(I was kilted of course) and as I was walking out the door a young boy of maybe 8 held the door for me. I said Thank you he returmed your welcome(I do live in the south you know ) I went on and got in the car. No big deal till my mother came out and got in also, she said that little boy pulled on his dads sleeve and said did you see that man he's Scottish and wearing scottish clothing. To which the dad replied personely I think he's gay, to which the boy replied no dad he's scottish. See he's wearing a kilt.

True to form I never hear those kind of comments to my face.

The mind of a child is a wonderful thing. They seem to call things like they see them.

Brett

[ian]

No big deal till my mother came out and got in also, she said that little boy pulled on his dads sleeve and said did you see that man he's Scottish and wearing scottish clothing. To which the dad replied personely I think he's gay, to which the boy replied no dad he's scottish. See he's wearing a kilt.

That 8 year old boy was smarter than his Dad.

[Jimmy the Celt]

Trust me... I wasn't staring because it was different from what I was used to seeing... I was staring because I was 13 and there was a whole lot of skin showing!

How true! Of course, I was staring before then: when I was 8 or 9 I told my mom that I like 15 and 16 year old girls better [than girls my own age]. When she asked why, I responded, "Because their clothes fit 'em better."

[Frank MacDuffy]

It's funny reading all of these posts about guys not getting lots of negaitve comments. I started wearing kilts in August (and quickly found Xmarks), all of my kilts are UKs (prayin' for a USAK sometime around Christmas!). In little ol' Port Angeles I started wearing my kilts and in my first week of kilted freedom I had guys hanging out of trucks yelling "******!" at me. I don't get that anymore but I've definetly been branded as something else by these uncultured country people. If it weren't for my full time kilting I don't think I'd ever have gotten rid of all the taunts! Just thought I'd share my little "Hey! That's funny!" moment. To everyone who's wearing full time, rock on.

[Jimmy the Celt]

Guid on ya, Frank int:

A favorite quote of mine:

Anyone can wear a pair of pants. It takes a man to wear a kilt.

I suspect that those who yell rude, ignorant jests [I doubt they really think you are a bundle of wood or a cigarette--that's what a ****** is, after all!--are insecure with their own manhood and find it threatening for another man to have the confidence that comes with kilting.

~James

[McClef]

Ah but in the UK a ****** is also a dish made from minced pork with onions - just had some for my dinner!

[Jimmy the Celt]

Ah but in the UK a ****** is also a dish made from minced pork with onions - just had some for my dinner!

I didn't know that; I learn something everyday

[nixphotography]

I suspect that those who yell rude, ignorant jests.........--are insecure with their own manhood and find it threatening for another man to have the confidence that comes with kilting.

~James

Here, Here! I couldn't have said it better my self.

Brett