A Question for Those with Masculine Jobs...

[Cassidy]

I wear my kilt all the time and so far only one negative comment from the ladies at work and that from a lassie who just doesn't like kilts and that wasn't really negative, just that she doesn't like kilts.

I never really understood this line of thinking. I've met some girls who just insisted they didn't like kilts, although perhaps it may have just been that they were embarrassed by them. But for someone to just genuinely not like them, for no particular reason, baffles me a bit.

I'll say this as well. If someone is truly and honestly offended at the suggestion that a career can be considered masculine, I really feel quite bad for them, as they must feel offended quite a lot of the time. We're here on a forum reclaiming the most masculine garment of all- perhaps this is not the place to suggest that all things are exactly suited for all genders.

[Nighthawk]

I never really understood this line of thinking. I've met some girls who just insisted they didn't like kilts, although perhaps it may have just been that they were embarrassed by them. But for someone to just genuinely not like them, for no particular reason, baffles me a bit.

I'll say this as well. If someone is truly and honestly offended at the suggestion that a career can be considered masculine, I really feel quite bad for them, as they must feel offended quite a lot of the time. We're here on a forum reclaiming the most masculine garment of all- perhaps this is not the place to suggest that all things are exactly suited for all genders.

I agree. There are, weather we like it or not, some occupations that carry a gender specific stigma. The neon blowers where I work, for example, think it's extremely odd that they have a woman on their crew. Women just don't bend neon, or work construction, etc etc. Is it right that this thinking exists? I won't say. But the fact remains that this kind of attitude does in fact exist, and there is no better way to discuss than to discuss it honestly, weather that honesty hurts someone's delicate sensibilities or not.

[Thunderbolt]

I'll say this as well. If someone is truly and honestly offended at the suggestion that a career can be considered masculine, I really feel quite bad for them, as they must feel offended quite a lot of the time. We're here on a forum reclaiming the most masculine garment of all- perhaps this is not the place to suggest that all things are exactly suited for all genders.

I agree. There are, weather we like it or not, some occupations that carry a gender specific stigma. The neon blowers where I work, for example, think it's extremely odd that they have a woman on their crew. Women just don't bend neon, or work construction, etc etc. Is it right that this thinking exists? I won't say. But the fact remains that this kind of attitude does in fact exist, and there is no better way to discuss than to discuss it honestly, weather that honesty hurts someone's delicate sensibilities or not.

I agree also.

T.

[davedove]

I never really understood this line of thinking. I've met some girls who just insisted they didn't like kilts, although perhaps it may have just been that they were embarrassed by them. But for someone to just genuinely not like them, for no particular reason, baffles me a bit.

It's quite possible she just doesn't like the way they look. Everyone has different tastes, and sometimes you just can't explain them. I been in situations before where people were saying how great something was, but I just didn't get it.

Although I suspect her dislike is more that kilts are outside of the norm and just don't fit into her worldview.

[Kilted_John]

I never really understood this line of thinking. I've met some girls who just insisted they didn't like kilts, although perhaps it may have just been that they were embarrassed by them. But for someone to just genuinely not like them, for no particular reason, baffles me a bit.

I'll say this as well. If someone is truly and honestly offended at the suggestion that a career can be considered masculine, I really feel quite bad for them, as they must feel offended quite a lot of the time. We're here on a forum reclaiming the most masculine garment of all- perhaps this is not the place to suggest that all things are exactly suited for all genders.

My guess is that those women think that kilts = s___ts and think that only women should be able to wear something that doesn't have an inseam and that men should wear trousers @ all times.

Personal jobs haven't really been "masculine" jobs. I did do some hardware testing/upgrades for ICOM America. Never saw a woman working in the testing room, so, that time, I was in a male-only environment. That probably was the closest thing to "masculine". Nobody cared. The guy overseeing the project thought it was cool, as did the other guys who were working in the room, who were a couple teenagers with their pants sagging, as usual.

-J