Lifting a Kilt

[Highland Logan]

I have had my kilt lifted a number of times, all by strangers, and I did nothing to invite what I consider a personal assault. All but one were women who thought it funny. A guy lifted it up over my head from behind in front of a table full of strangers, and because I didn't want to get his blood on my new kilt, I simply asked them if they enjoyed the show and walked away. I refuse to accept that lifting my kilt is to be tolerated or that simply by wearing it I'm inviting that kind of rude behavior.

Now like I said you may have not did anything to encourge this type of thing, but because of the actions of other in the past and still in the present, society in general believes that kilt lifting and "the question" is excepted and encouraged.

To me, stating we have any sort of blame for other's reactions is comparable to telling a rape victim it is his/her fault they were raped. I have never done anything to invite someone to lift my kilt, and it is ridiculous to assume that I should be forced to accept that sort of treatment.

With the amount of threads on this board about people sitting around thinking of the best comeback to the "question", and what is the best t-shirt with the coolest sexual innuendo regarding what is worn under the kilt, and the "OMG a girl said I looked good in a kilt" type of grade 6 comments, is it any wonder people want to garb at/ask the question? Now I have not said anyone in this thread has acted inapropriatly, but we all know someone who acts just as I discribed. Regular people in pants don't run out and buy "what's under my pants" t-shirts, or try to come up with comebacks to questions about pants... some no doubt will still act like they are in grade school if a girl looks at them. The point is for those who act like that, grow up. For those who already are... the actions of other have made this exceptable in society. As for rape... you tend to be overly dramatic and use terms and examples that you think are below others to attack (cancer surivors). You may want to try to stop making a victim of yourself and hiding behind others you feel people will not question. Stop feeling that any opinion other than yours is attack, exspeacialy when the actions sited does not apply to you.

Frank

[JamieKerr]

You may want to try to stop making a victim of yourself and hiding behind others you feel people will not question. Stop feeling that any opinion other than yours is attack, exspeacialy when the actions sited does not apply to you.

Frank

Given that I never said how I personally react when someone does it to me, You may not want to make comments about someone you don't know. I was merely making a comparison to something that occurs in the other gender. Given that lifting a man's kilt is legally assault in many states, my comparison was not inappropriate. That's why I made it, and for no other reason. Then again, maybe you don' t like my responses because you see a bit of truth and don't know how to respond.