I will straight up confess that men in kilts make me swoon. Knees buckle kind of swoon. Can’t quite catch my breath kind of swoon. I’m gonna need some time alone kind of swoon.
Oops. TMI. Sorry.
My husband is of Scottish heritage. His grandfather came straight out of Glasgow, and he still has family there. Our surname is very common in Scotland, and we still use the Scottish spelling, rather than the more common English one. It’s an easy name, but I have to spell it every time, because of that wonky spelling. It’s something like Calhoun, but spelled Colquholn.
So right off the bat, I take great offence to anyone slagging on Scotsmen. Having said that, I find it interesting that Jezebel, reporting on the quality of men’s sperm at different scrotal temperatures, takes the opportunity to demonstrate just how they feel about men and masculinity.
http://jezebel.com/wearing-kilt-may-up-sperm-count-but-lowers-chance-of-g-479225233
Wearing Kilt May Up Sperm Count, But Lowers Chance of Getting Some
After engaging in some pathetic stereotypes about how Scottish people speak, writer Laura Beck offers the suggestion that men who wear kilts might experience boosted sperm count, but the fact that they are wearing SKIRTS LOL LOL LOL means the lads won’t be getting any action from the ladies.
She throws in a reference to caber tossing just to solidify her argument that Scottish men, are in fact, pansy-assed losers who will never get laid.
In doing so, she reveals an attitude towards men and masculinity that quite frankly, doesn’t surprise me in the least. This is the quote from a study published in the Scottish Medical Journal that has prompted such sneering derision from Laura.
In addition to keeping their scrotum at a cooler temperature, which research proves can boost sperm count, kilt wearers enjoy psychological benefits, such as feeling more masculine and proud and enjoying positive attention from sexual admirers, reported LiveScience on April 19.
http://smj.rsmjournals.com/content/58/1/e1.abstract
Scrotums and sperm and pride and attention from sexual admirers OH MY! No wonder Laura is all in a tizzy. That’s a whole lot of manliness for her to swallow (heh).
Men in kilts are actually defiantly, unapologetically male, and it’s that declaration of pride in the masculine that Laura hates so much. When this guy wears a skirt, he’s awesome:
Why, he’s helping his little boy understand that gender is socially constructed, and helping him feel comfortable in whatever type of clothing he chooses! Fair enough. Nothing wrong with that. Well, nothing wrong with little boys wearing skirts, if that’s what they want. We don’t flinch at little girls dressing up as cowboys or knights in shining armor, so why should we care if little boys want to dress as Princesses or dairymaids?
It’s all just play. It’s pretending. It’s imagination. You can be a beauty queen one day, and a baseball player the next. It’s okay to wear Mommy’s shoes and her summer hat and some pearls and have a tea party, no matter what gender you are.
Feminists like to pretend that such play encourages children to understand that gender is a social construction that you can CHOOSE. In fact, it’s the opposite. Children are beginning to see that there are big differences between boys and girls, between men and women, and they engage in role-play to solidify what those differences are. Dressing up as Batman doesn’t challenge gender: it confirms it.
http://www.parentingscience.com/girl-toys-and-parenting.html
So why celebrate the Daddy in the skirt, but mock men in kilts?
Because you can’t spin a man in a kilt into some neo-fascist genderless drone committed to his own cultural extinction.
http://jezebel.com/5976307/awesome-indian-men-don-skirts-to-protest-rape-culture
These men donned skirts to protest the ACTUAL RAPE OF WOMEN, not “rape culture”, which is an invention of feminism, specifically designed to convince men they are all rapists at heart. But if an honest, heartfelt action by real, living, breathing men can be twisted into some sort of ideological stance against all men everywhere, you can count on Jezebel to do it.
John the Other got in a lot of shit when he said that he wasn’t interested in negotiating with feminists.
I don’t mind telling you, I am no longer here to debate, or to reason, or to converse, or to hope you may be reached by logic or evidence. I am here to fuck your shit up.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/this-is-not-a-negotiation-and-i-dont-want-your-pussy/
John is responding to the accusation that he is basically just a rutting animal with nothing but rape on his mind in an unapologetically and perfectly understandable masculine way: with anger and defiance. He will not grovel or plead or placate or fawn in the hopes of convincing all the ever so reasonable ladies that no, he really doesn’t want to rape anybody.
And naturally, the feminists hate him.
For the exact same reason they hate men in kilts. Men in kilts are not going to grovel and plead at the feet of the matriarchs, either. They are going to don some blue facepaint, and fuck someone’s shit up.
And that is what really scares the hell out of women like Laura: if men decide they are not going to take this shit for one more second, there is very little women are going to be able to do about it. As the MHRM moves more and more mainstream, the ideologues like Laura and her ilk are getting more and more nervous. The only real tools they have at their disposal are intangible ones: they can use the law to try and contain men, but in order to ENFORCE the law, they still need men.
It’s easy to scream in the face of men when you have another line of men standing by, sworn to uphold the law, and therefore, by default, sworn to protect you.
What happens if the law changes? What happens if the men who are protecting you decide you are no longer worthy of protection? What happens when your defacto allies suddenly see the enemy, and it’s YOU?
Female supremists are right to be worried. Those men just might decide to take a cue from Scotland, don a skirt and start fucking shit up.
And all the mocking in the world won’t be able to stop them.
Lots of love,
JB
judgybitch 
Oh my, Ewan McGregor in his kilt; now THAT conjures up delectable visions in my mind 😉
Pfffft, that Jezebel must be just trying to be provocative to troll for hits on her site, because there cannot be any woman of sane mind who doesn’t have a heart-flutter at the sight of all that masculine virility wrapped in tartan!
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“These men donned skirts to protest the ACTUAL RAPE OF WOMEN”
I didn’t know that. Source?
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*test*
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she also used a picture of women – i’m fairly certain.
kilts are friggin hawt.
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The jezebel link has the story, although you can find it around the web.
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No. Those are men.
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Oh my. Ewan in a kilt? There is nothing in the world wrong with that. I can think of a lot of men I’d like to see dressed like that. I’m having visions of Hugh Jackman right now…. Oh lord. I just found one online. I may die of happiness. http://s44.photobucket.com/user/Pinky71/media/Hugh%20Jackman%20Wallpapers/Hj-kilt.jpg.html
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*chews nails*
Oh……
My!
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Oooooh Gerard Butler. http://www.justjared.com/photo-gallery/2360672/gerard-butler-kilt-law-abiding-citizen-glasgow-08/
I know you’re trying to make a point here. But really, I’m just enjoying the excuse to look at hot men in kilts.
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ah yes. i see now – my bad.
course going back there again – i noticed – her title is obviously meant to denigrate and the stereotypes are beyond wince worthy but then says maxhealth is correct about the positive sexual attention (which they are)
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It’s only a skirt if he’s wearing something underneath.
Oh, and here, a gift:
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Ahem, back on topic, Jezebel really has no clue how completely out of touch it is with REAL women.
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Men don’t need to actually step out and fuck anything up. If men want to mess up feminists all they have to do is not give a shit about them or anything they say. Feminists are soulless drones who can’t survive without a cadre of enabling, gonad-disabled yes-men.
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I also find it ironic that those who most disparage the private ownership of chemical powered self defense are on the lower end of the physical upper body strength bell curve.
The old sales slogan was, “God made all men, Sam Colt made the equal.” Historically force was the province of the young, the male, and the numerous. I’m grateful we live in more civilized times, but we should not assume that this is the natural default or that just because someone is paid to protect you one day they may not be paid to tyrannize you another.
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Not giving a shit IS fucking their shit up. Women take that sort of thing VERY personally, because it’s all about MEEEEEE!
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“Because you can’t spin a man in a kilt into some neo-fascist genderless drone committed to his own cultural extinction.”
THIS. And OH MY… those are some hot men in kilts.
Thank you for this blog… in a world where I increasingly have to hear stupid crap like: “victim-blaming”, “slut-shaming”, and “mansplaining”, it’s nice to know there are actually women who can THINK.
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“You can be: Equal, or Special. Pick one.”
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Their outrage makes me want to wear my kilt more often.
I do wonder whether this is a reaction to Kilted to Kick Cancer, though. Kilts – a badge of support for men’s rights?
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“Mansplaining.” Ugh. I hate that one.
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WTF is “mansplaining?” Or do I even want to know…
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Oh yeah, forgot to add:
Kilts er fer pansies. Real men wear lederhosen.
Heh… 😉
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We’d rather not, thankyouverymuch.
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And slapdance!
Sehr gut!
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I’m a New Zealand woman of Scottish extraction, so this video appeals to me greatly!!! Maori warriors. *bites knuckle* Scottish braves. *clutches pearls* An unmitigated display of male power and mana (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mana#In_New_Zealand) *weak knees*. And I saw this on ANZAC Day, where we honour our soldiers and war dead. A perfect male trifecta of strength, pride, sacrifice. Why are we not celebrating everything that is male, again?
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It’s when a man explains something to a woman, as he assumes she’s ignorant on the topic just because she’s a girl, even though the woman is proficient in that field. A man explaining how a car engine works to a female that doesn’t know how a car engine works isn’t mansplaining. That’s merely edification. However, a man who has fired up a BBQ once or twice in his life explaining how to cook a steak to a female chef is mansplaining. A male layperson explaining metabolic diseases to a female nutritionist/doctor is mansplaining. A man coming in and telling me how to run my home is mansplaining. It’s the man assuming he knows more than the woman by sheer dint of being male.
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Mansplaining is when a man tells an uncomfortable truth to a feminist….
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Now, now, ladies, lets keep focused on the topic!
I like two things about the linked Jezzy post. The first is that most of the women commenting completely disagree with the author and agree with you ladies here; men in kilts are hot. The second thing is that the author, Laura Beck, is pictured chugging back a glass of wine, which somewhat comports with her writing.
Now, please excuse me whilst I contact a Glaswegian tailor about acquiring a kilt…
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Who exactly are they trying to convince here?
Any Scotsman who has ever worn a kilt knows from experience how women respond to a man wearing one. It is an outward display of confidence that women find irresistible.
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Oh, and it’s too bad y’all missed what might need to be retitled “swoon-fest”:
The NYC Tartan Day Parade (a couple of weeks ago) http://www.tartanweek.com/
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Quite clearly! 🙂
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Getting pegged makes you more of a man. Wearing a kilt makes you less.
Check.
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Meh, it will take a long time for the legal system to come around. Judges don’t cycle through very often. Public prosecutors are in many ways elected by special interests to uphold what those who paid for their campaigns want. And street-cops simply want to have authority over all that moves. I cannot forsee the day when women like Red up there are taken to task over violent actions in public by the law. Then again 20 years ago, I could have never imagined a day when men would be regarded as the emotionally unstable ones, requiring counseling for any workplace disturbance. As a child I distinctly remember women at work being considered the ones to walk on eggshells around.
I purchased a kilt once. I still have it. I’ve worn it in public *zero* times. I think my mistake was asking a girl I knew if it looked too feminine for me to wear it.
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Oh fuck her!
Wear it! Wear it!
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My ancestry is mostly Dutch anyway, so it’s not quite proper. Besides, there’s something wrong with a blond-haired blue-eyed man with little body hair wearing a kilt. I think I would actually look better wearing one if I actually had any body hair. I’ll stick to California geek-wear I think.
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Feminists demand tolerance for all forms of sexual expression except proud masculinity, which needs to be tied down and castrated.
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And transgenderism, which is a direct threat that’s already been castrated.
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If Ms. Beck doesn’t want these fine specimens of masculinity, I’d be MORE than happy to take them off her hands.
*swoon*
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I bet JB’s waiting for me to comment on this, Jeremy!
Och, you see, many Scottish men are fair and blue-eyed and have little body hair – they’re actually quite evolved 😉 What’s really imperative is that they have good legs under that kilt 🙂 and swagger!
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Ha!
I was gonna say something about Mr.JB being a blue-eyed blonde, but then I remembered his fine Scottish blood was polluted with his mother’s English stock.
She’s a brunette, though.
Or I should say she used to be. Mr. JB inherited his premature white hair from her.
God, I’m so mean. She’s a lovely lady.
Or so I hear.
😛
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Dear God.
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man, no chuckle? not even a courtesy “HA” ? One-liner appreciation is truly dead 😦
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Lots of Vikings settled in Scotland (and Ireland). Of course they have a lot o’ blondies.
Next favorite thing to raidin’. Settlin’.
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A kilt is all about the attitude. If you wear it like you mean it, it will look damned good. If you’re afraid you look effeminate, you probably will.
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Actually, that was well-played.
Please take a cookie. Take two!
🙂
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that’s what it originated as but feminists use it whenever they want to shut a man up, for instance all male MRAs are always mansplaining because men can’t possibly what what sexism feels like(that’s an actual argument I have heard from a feminist)
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Ah, the thing is, you see, that when a man wears a kilt, rather a lot of ladies start physically admiring – or ‘objectifying’ in Jezebel-speak – him. But as all good feminists know, only WOMEN get objectified, and only by men. Therefore, it is quite evident that wearing a kilt makes you appear feminine, and anyway, the women who CLAIM to be drooling over these pictures are simply being ironic, and don’t really mean it.
Couldn’t possibly be that when a man is dressed in a way that arouses women, they react to that in pretty much the same way as men do to sexy women – by responding to the relevant aspects of the person (in this case, their physical hotness), and not overtly acknowledging that they are more than just a drool-worthy chest and pair of legs.
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Haha, actually down south of India, we do wear a skirt like stuff called mundu/veshti/lungi – in countries like Malaysia,Indonesia etc its called sarong. Maybe Jezebel & Co. missed this great slight to “masculinity” when they targeted on Scots – proves they are myopic both in their reasoning and their vision.
Someone needs to show them this –
Come on Jezebel, Dhanush can help you lighten up – Why so serious?? 😉
Actually I sort of didn’t understand Scots in the beginning, I mean I prefer it, wear this quite freely and enjoy it too – nothing like it in the tropics to keep your legs free. But if you wear this in cold climate……Once I entered the air-conditioned theatre in mundu…….at first it was quite fun……but later on…..BRRRR……….I honestly afraid for the future of my unborn children…..the Scots must have some real thick skin to pull it off.
Speaking of thick skin,
JB, have you heard of the Yahgan?? Pity the natives are nearly extinct – that was some real tough breed of humans – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahgan
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But skirts on men make rape easier!
/snark
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Living in Texas, I’ve looked lungi over several times. They look practical for the high heat and look like they’d look much better with the sandals I wear when I’m not on the clock — kilts with sandals look terrible.
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That’s why my wife would like me to wear one. The problem with kilts (and why a bunch of us scottish-descended *skinflint bastards* don’t wear them) is that all the nice ones are serious money. Any kilt worth wearing is subbing for a really SHARP suit which can be worn six times as often.
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Togas > kilts
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Ahhhh, humanity – therein lies the frailty 😉
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Oh but think of the money you’d save on underwear! Plus, kilts will never date, they’ve not changed in centuries, and they don’t wear out. Also, you get to wear a man-purse with impunity – sporrans are soooo cool! No more “‘George Costanza” wallet making your bum look big, LOL
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There’s a Hungarian man-purse called a tarsoly (“tarshoy”) that I wear sometimes. On other days, I have vests with plenty of pockets. My wife married me for my ass, so I provide her with plenty of opportunities to admire it. 🙂
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Oh fuck me, seriously? So now any attempt by a man to explain or teach a woman something is sexist, huh?
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Haha, good to see these caught your eye. Yeah, its practical for heat & rains – we simply double it back into kilt size to avoid the splashes and puddles. It’s the simplest cloth out there – like a tablecloth, so its simple to clean and dry.
And the highlight? – Can easily be used as a blanket 😉 (I do it quite often)
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The problem with wearing a kilt is that you really have to be a big man to pull it off. I weigh 170lbs, so I would probably look a little wimpy in one.
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EXACTLY! I’ve seen it used WAY outside that context. Frequently. I’ve unfollowed so many people on Twitter over “mansplaining”.
Also, “Rape culture”. Holy freaking God. So sick of it.
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LMAO! Only on opposites day. You know… people can do whatever they want in their own bedrooms, but I gotta say, I find the whole pegging thing pretty icky. Not because it involves the back door but because of the way it’s sexually dominating a man in a way that just seems completely gratuitous since the woman gets NOTHING out of it but the ability to humiliate. Again, if someone gets off on that, hey fine. Go have fun, but I just personally find it gross. Again, not because butts are involved.
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Yes. For instance, if a man were to tell feminists that something like this:http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/24/sex-with-consent-can-still-be-rape-3665975/
can lead to very bad outcomes for innocent men and women who have been raped alike, it will be called “mansplaining” by a feminist.
The more qualifications and disclaimers involved, the more it is “mansplaining”.
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I’m an Irishman by descent. I can tell you from experience that the Lezzebels are retarded. Women LOVE men in tartan skirts.
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That’s how it’s almost always used when I see it. Whenever I see a woman trot out “mansplaining” I know not to pay any attention to her anymore. It’s the online equivalent of plugging your ears and yelling “la la la I can’t hear you!”
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I love this article. You wrote so many truths here.
Alas, I’m French, and it’s very difficult to find a good kilt here (not our tradition). I do find them unapologeticaly virile.
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Yes! That’s exactly it.
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LOL that’s about the size of it.
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Don’t forget traditional femininity. They hate that, too. A woman wants to do any traditional woman things? OMG demeaning!!! Shameful. Patriarchy!
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She can just send all those kilt wearing men my way if she doesn’t like them. They’re looking for a real woman, anyways. (:
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Oh how I adore Ewan.
Great post. Feminism on Jezebel is so full of paradoxes and hypocrisies that I can’t tell up from down anymore.
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A friend of mine served in Scottish Regiment(Reserves) before joining the Reg Force, where the two of us met. Anyway he told me about how on one particular Remembrance Day after the service at the Cenataph a woman asked what they wore under their kilt’s, he smiled and said find out for yourself. Needless to say he did not go home alone. Sorry Jezzabell.
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The best part about the Jez article?
The people in the header picture are kilt-wearing WOMEN. 🙂
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Women complained for generations that skirts are a badge of servitude. Finally they got free to wear pants. A man wants to wear a skirt, the same women tell him he needs to go see a “mental health professional.” Funny—in the earlier days of women in pants, newspapers told them to go see “mental health professionals” (NY Times, May 27, 1876 editorial “A Curious Disease.”) Kilts? No. Make mine Greek. Better yet, a la Elizabeth Hawes (which see on Google).
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I don’t get it. Women who are SCREAMING for equality among the sexes are lightning quick to point out what a man should or should not wear. They are blinded to their own hipocrasy and bigotry. “Oh no, no, no! You can’t, but I can!” seems to be the order of things. Excuse me !?!
Hey, Jezebel bitch! Where the FUCK do you get off telling men as a collective what to do when you’re so quick to put a finger in our face telling us that you can and will do anything that you Goddamn well please? Yeah, the MHRM has a potential to take off like wild fire. If it is okay for you to wear pants, then it is okay for us to wear the kilt. Or a skirt. GET OVER IT!
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http://www.facebook.com/mensskirts , Men all over the world are rediscovering the comfort of a skirt/kilt and are reclaiming this masculine garment.
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http://www.theskirtedman.eu or http://www.theskirtedman.blogspot.co.uk
These say all that I need why I as a man wear shirts, and in public and with the support of my wife. I do so with confidence and without question of my sexuality. Does the sexuality of women in trousers become a question?
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For your information, there is a town in Bretagne which has since a few year its own kilt, so you should be able to get one easily
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Don’t forget the Dutch fishermen which would go to church in Scotland as they could understand the sermon. What ever happened after church does entitle to wear a kilt, but the open minded Dutch are not so openminded as many think.
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There is a faction of women who interpret their right to wear all forms of clothing as domination over men, since society feels men should have to wear pants just forever. These style selfish women are correct in this interpretation. It’s the same as using Wing Chun Kung Fu to control a stronger opponent. Men outsmart themselves. It’s a mass-hypnosis con job. This leads to the final point–there are many who express that kilts are the only style alternative men should have to pants. Any travel agent who told men “Scotland is the only permissible destination for you” would be howled out of the country, but when it comes to this unintelligent dogma “if a man wants to wear a skirt it has to be a kilt” people buy into it with no resistance. The reason is that kilts on men are to some extent part of their consciousness, that’s why they consider it acceptable. Other skirts on men are new to their thinking, and they resist novelty with great insecurity. Any other type of skirt they grumble is “female,” because they accepted the idea of universal variety for women but not for men. Greeks have been around longer than Scots and I find their costume in most aspects the more powerful. There is room for all styles, there should not be acceptance of allowing men 1 type of skirt only as an extension of the restrictive attitudes towards men. Just be sure to present as a man not as a woman, that makes establishment of parallel rights for men more difficult.
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You show good reasoning.
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For them it’s traditional.
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Not really, chick. First and foremost, there is no such thing as women’s clothes, these things are just made up, without objective foundation. Those are just view habits which are insufficient to make normative statements. There is this interplay between social construction like gender and biology, so that the gender becomes part of the dna.
I don’t like feminazis too but there is a difference between the truth and their feminazi agenda.
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That’s it, that’s fucking it!
I’m getting a kilt
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