Grinding it Out, Kilted at Work, it Works!

[Graham]

But Graham, you're an ARTIST. You're SUPPOSED to be strange.

I resemble that comment!! it does help, I agree!

Declan, you spoke of "crossing that final frontier", it really does feel like that, it can be quite scary, I can relate!

For me it comes down to being sufficiently confident in myself, how I look and feel in a kilt, and how little I care about what others think or say.
The type of job we do also comes into the equation, not all jobs can be appropriate kilted.

[chacbalam]

Hell I am kilted at work right now. as a matter of fact my boss just took a picture of me as i'm typing this. Check out my gallery, I'll upload the picture when I get home.

I work the public all day long and I have to say that the comments are all good. I just hate it when women say that my kilt is cute. Thats not exactly the look I am going for.

The question that I get the most tired if is "are you Scottish?" It so happens that my grandfather is of clan Gordon, sept Craig, but I usually just tell people that it is comfortable.

[Thistle Stop]

Hell I am kilted at work right now. as a matter of fact my boss just took a picture of me as i'm typing this. Check out my gallery, I'll upload the picture when I get home.

I work the public all day long and I have to say that the comments are all good. I just hate it when women say that my kilt is cute. Thats not exactly the look I am goping for.

The question that I get the most tired if is "are you Scottish?" It so happens that my grandfather is of clan Gordon, sept Craig, but I usually just tell people that it is comfortable.

Usually, when a woman tells a man she doesn't know very well that he looks 'cute', she doesn't mean cute like a bunny -- she means sexy and/or handsome, but she doesn't want to be so forward as to say it in those terms.

[Riverkilt]

I love the line from Bull Durham, "Cute? Ducks are cute." And have been known to use it in response to a "cute kilt" line.

Think the line in the movie was meant to clarify the situation much as you explain Cyndi.

Ron

[chacbalam]

Thanks Cyndi, my wife just slapped me upside the head and gave me a told you so look.

By the way I just got my first negative kilt comment at work. A man asked me why I was wearing a skirt. The way he said it sounded quite hostile. When I explained that I was wearing a kilt he stalked off mumbling something about "as long as it isn' a skirt." I think that he feels threatened by something.

[Thistle Stop]

Thanks Cyndi, my wife just slapped me upside the head and gave me a told you so look.

By the way I just got my first negative kilt comment at work. A man asked me why I was wearing a skirt. The way he said it sounded quite hostile. When I explained that I was wearing a kilt he stalked off mumbling something about "as long as it isn' a skirt." I think that he feels threatened by something.

I think he feels threatened by a LACK of something (his).

[Thistle Stop]

I love the line from Bull Durham, "Cute? Ducks are cute." And have been known to use it in response to a "cute kilt" line.

Think the line in the movie was meant to clarify the situation much as you explain Cyndi.

Ron

Oh Ron, you li'l ol' duck-bunny, you!

[Thistle Stop]

At clinical staffing yesterday the same curious lesbian coworker asked me in front of the assembled clinical staff, "So, are you wearing anything under your kilt?" This time my response was firm and direct, "Do you think I'm stupid?" She flushed with embarassment and turned away.

While naturally I'm sympathetic to your point of view, I feel compelled to point out that 'sometimes a cigar is just a cigar' -- and sometimes a curious question is nothing more than that. I trust your ability to know the difference. But I want to speak up on behalf of the innocent-but-curious, for the sake of young/new kilt-wearers who may not have full discernment yet. They shouldn't treat everyone who asks 'The Question' with hostility -- only those of evil intent or the seriously annoying!

[Magnus Sporrano]

Perhaps the hostile lesbian colleague needs to be reported for sexual harrassment. That would be rich.

[Dreadbelly]

Perhaps the hostile lesbian colleague needs to be reported for sexual harrassment. That would be rich.

Magnus, women do not sexually harass a man in a kilt. All of those questions are 'good natured" and "harmless." And if you can't "deal" with them, then you need to "lighten up" "relax" and "take a joke." Or worse, "you need to stop being such an uptight prick" because, don't you know, they were only using idle chit chat to start up conversation.

Don't you love the double standard?