Research paper on Kilt discrimination, your help is needed!

[SportBilly]

We had a very good example of discrinination in a thread just in the last week or two.

Do a search here for threads on "The Question" & "Kilt Lifting".

Then take a note pad, your kilt, and go to the Student Union and stand in the hall and ask everyone you can find;

"Why is it perceived to be acceptable to ask a man in a kilt 'The Question' or lift his kilt, when it is Sexual Assualt to do the same to a woman.(or even a man in trousers)"

[RobertParker]

We had a very good example of discrinination in a thread just in the last week or two.

Do a search here for threads on "The Question" & "Kilt Lifting".

Then take a note pad, your kilt, and go to the Student Union and stand in the hall and ask everyone you can find;

"Why is it perceived to be acceptable to ask a man in a kilt 'The Question' or lift his kilt, when it is Sexual Assualt to do the same to a woman.(or even a man in trousers)"

Good idea. Nice way to gather scientific (or really pseudo-scientific) data. You'll have good things to say either way in support of your position or in opposition to it. Also, you might do a brief historical background and refer to the prohibition in the 18th century. I know it was about more than "just kilts" but it was discrimination nonetheless, and set a strong precedence in some ways.

[McFarkus]

Don't know if this qualifies, but my nephew Seamus had an interesting experience of having his kilt lifted in a public high school setting. He wrote about it here http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/t...x.html?t=10893. If he had done this to the young lady in question while she was wearing a SKIRT, he probably would have been suspended.

[McFarkus]

Good idea. Nice way to gather scientific (or really pseudo-scientific) data. You'll have good things to say either way in support of your position or in opposition to it. Also, you might do a brief historical background and refer to the prohibition in the 18th century. I know it was about more than "just kilts" but it was discrimination nonetheless, and set a strong precedence in some ways.

It wasn't just kilts, it was any tartan material

[escherblacksmith]

I wouldn't do anything with the "shocking***" thread as most of the original thread that it was tied to was the back and forth between one guy and why he personally would not wear a kilt and others talking about why they did.

In short, nothing on your topic. Perhaps a more likely path would be to put a poll here (mildly scientific, at best) and list off different possible reactions. "have you ever been refused service?", "have you ever caught flack?", etc.

that would be a good starting point amongst the online community. Then you could poll your school and find those that would object, wouldn't object, etc.

A thought.

[highlander_Daz]

well if you start in 1746

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dress_Act

work forward.

[cwr89]

I would like to thank everyone who is offering Ideas! I am going ahead and changing it to the discrimination of Kilt wearing and men. the Paper is about Discrimination and Predjudice. I am certain with all the info that I have collected here on Xmarks that I will have a lengthy and quite interesting paper!

I am starting to formulate all my ideas up. the best part of all these stories is, my psychology teacher is the prom commity leader, she makes all the rules and everything. I've already headed her up about the kilt and she said that if it was presentable enough...

thanks!

is there anyone on here that doesn't want their name used in quotes, and if your name isn't posted then your screen name?

thanks!
~Casey

[Makeitstop]

One thing you might want to consider is that often workplaces which do not allow kilts (for reasons other than saftey) do not actually have an official policy against the kilt, but act as if they did. And when the issue is raised, it is not uncommon for them to give excuses which are equally applicable to women in skirts. And as has been mentioned, they often do not treat it in the same way that they treat other traditional garments from other cultures.

[The Wizard of BC]

My fee for using quotes of my wisdom is only $1000.54 per word.

The use of my image however includes a surcharge. Many women swoon at the sight of my kilted visage so there are insurance charges and such.

[Dirk Skene]

I would like to thank everyone who is offering Ideas! I am going ahead and changing it to the discrimination of Kilt wearing and men. the Paper is about Discrimination and Predjudice. ......

Good luck with it. I would like to read it when you are done.