One day I was a wandering...

[Doc Hudson]

Galant wrote

Ah, I wonder if the day will ever arrive when I get mocked for being 'old-school' in my kiltwearing habits!

These are the idiots to whom I referred when I wrote:

Wear your tartan's with pride and let the idiots dress as they will.

For the rest, I stand by what I wrote in the same response:

Quite frankly I don't give a tinker's damn about what other folks think of my mode dress, politics, religion, or the tools I choose to use for hunting or defense.

[philibeg]

But My Dear Doc,

What are you on about? Who has attacked your beliefs? I certainly haven't! Its Don Quixote attacking the windmills all over again! I don't think anybody here really gives a tinker's damn about anything but KILTS! Your beliefs are of no interest to me at all, you are more than welcome to 'em, and verily, verily I hope they bring unto you "the peace that passeth all understanding". All I ask is that you not insult those who do not share them, no matter how obliquely.

This is a forum open to all who are interested in KILTS, without regard to religion, politics or economic status. This includes atheists, socialists and welfare recipients (as well as the Pope, G.W. Bush and Mr. Trump, should they get a hankering for 8 meters of wool and kneesocks!). And unless the moderators decide to change that, all I ask is that we stick to what counts: KILTS!!

[elijah]

Doc, the more I'm wearing kilts and less I'm getting comments, the less I post. I still read quite a bit, but things are always busy for the writer/banker/potential home buyer that I am.

[KiltedBishop]

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.

I agree fully. Judging someone for judging you is a little strange in a logical sense. we look for the freedom to wear what we want, how can we begrudge someone who "Chooses" to wear trouser...to each there own.

[Matthews]

I'll have to admit, turning twenty in a few weeks, I wish that I was kilted full time. But ever since I've got my kilt I have had nothing but success with spreading the word to family and friends - 1st my brother than my brother-in-law and now a couple of my buddies are all jonesing the waist-plaid. If we are ever going to bring the kilt mainstream outside of the Highland Games and Celtic Fests I believe that is the way to do it, spreading the word one guy at a time. And philibeg, I back you buddy - preach the love.

Cheers,
T.R. Matthews