Quote Originally Posted by gilmore View Post
Not to mention Hollywood and the movies.

In the US so many people, especially younger guys looking for assertive, masculine images to emulate, had decided that "Scots" = Mel Gibson in Braveheart,[I] or the fictitious Duncan MacLeod in The Highlalnder movies and TV series. There is an assumption that wearing a kilt is rebellious, agressive, possibly meanspirited, and quick to wrath. Historical evidence that does not support those assumptions tends to be ignored.


You mean you don't turn into a ten foot tall, he-man, barbarian when you strap on a kilt, Gilmore?

Actually, Gilmore, it's neat that you have been able to stick to tracing your family line back and linking it to tartan etc. I don't have the resources, or the connection to family to do that, but mor power to those who do. My father bought one of those aughful "family crests" when I was a little kid and all that stuff, too. * sigh *