Weird Skirt Comment

[millar]

I was in the supermarket last night with my 8 y/o daughter. I was wearing my Khaki AK. A woman stopped me and said "I think it is so great, men wearing skirts, maybe someday they will be free enough to wear tights and lipstick too." She looked at my daughter and said "You are such a lucky little girl." I got a little angry and I was going to tell her was a kilt but I didn't want to say anything unseemly in front of my daughter, so I just smiled said thank you and went on with my shopping. Just another weird event.
Cheers
Jim

[Bob C]

There's just a chance I might have hit a woman as nasty as that.

Well, not really, but I'd sure have told her off.

[GMan]

Jim,

That is interesting, I do have a male friend who wears a beard and is very adamant that within 20 years, the genders will all merge together, and it really will not matter what one wears. I do not agree with his thinking and think that he is wrong in his logic, so maybe this lady is his long lost sister.

Never had any desire to wear lipstick As yet no one has asked me either.

[cavscout]

You can always remind her that "it was prostitutes and whores who started wearing lip stick but you're not interested. She'll have to go make a buck somewhere else".

It's funny how people like this feel secure to voice their ingnorance when you have to restrain yourself due to children or others whom you choose not to offend. If you had been alone, she probably would not have been so "brave" as to open her suck. I freaking hate people like that.

[flyv65]

I might have said something like: "Yes, my daughter is very lucky not to have been raised in an environment of pettyness and narrow-mindedness. Here's hoping that the unfortunate others finally get a bit smarter and grow up". A big smile at her, maybe a wink, and then turn on your heel and walk proudly away with your daughter.

Bryan...but it's damn tough to take the High Road sometimes, isn't it?...

[cessna152towser]

No, I certainly wouldn't want to wear lipstick or tights either. I have long borne a grudge or phobia towards cross-dressers ever since my teenage sweetheart ran off with one, who then became a woman. There again though there does seem to be a dumbing down of the unwritten rule that only men were entitled to wear trousers and only women were entitled to choose unbifurcated garments; when my wife and I first married more than twenty years ago she wore skirts every day and I had never once worn a kilt; now she wears ladies trousers every day and only wears a skirt on a special occasion; I now own three traditional style male kilts which I must make an effort to wear more frequently as I have found them very practical and comfortable.

[Livingston]

I, too, would not wear lipstick, unless some sweet young lady that was previously wearing it placed it on my cheek.

[Shay]

I, too, would not wear lipstick, unless some sweet young lady that was previously wearing it placed it on my cheek.

Mwah! Wait, I'm not that sweet... or young... or much of a lady. Well, it was my best mommy kiss, for which I am doubly qualified.

Millar, you could have told her you were wearing lipstick, but the presence of your daughter forbade you from saying exactly where... let the woman figure it out later.

[James]

As with other comments I abhor cross dressing-so let us get away from that nonsense.

However turn the incident round, apparently it was not a tartan garment, and so not an obvious kilt was being worn: rather one of the modern faux kilts. Starting from that point the woman was entitled to be confused as to the nature of the garment being worn: and her words were in fact complimentary. That she got carried away in respect of tights etc, is neither here nor there.

The real nub of the situation being that she complimented a man for wearing a certain type of garment. This in turn showing an acceptance of the wider wearing of either a traditional or contemporary kilt on a day to day basis.

Now I must be unkind, for those of us looking to gain acceptance of the kilt as a day to day garment for work and play, we must have a certain resiliance: and to be blunt, not be so precious. Rather look to genuine acceptance and compliments however expressed.

James

[Bob C]

her words were in fact complimentary.

Well, neither of us was there, so we don't know for sure, but those words sound a lot more sarcastic than complimentary.

What is your assessment, millar? What was her tone like? I'll admit I've been assuming sarcasm, perhaps without cause.