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Ken
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Date Posted: 10:56:55 11/09/02 Sat
In reply to:
Jeff
's message, "A poll-who feels comfortable enough" on 19:33:17 11/02/02 Sat
Jeff, I am afraid that those kilts fall into a category along with bowties, baseball caps, suspenders, plaid flannel shirts, earrings, and coveralls, i.e., things I would never wear just because they don't suit my personality.
>many american men aren't
>gonna feel comfortable wearing a kilt cause of
>insecurities in their own manhood.
Perhaps, but the utilikilt is remarkably similar to those baggy shorts that the illiterate thugs in my neighborhood wear every day. Many of them have earrings as well, but they certainly aren't trying to reveal their feminine side.
>What say you? Would
>you be able to wear and walk around in one without
>feeling ashamed or embarrassed?
No, I would feel ashamed and embarrased because I would look like a dork.
To violate social customs is to open one's self to ridicule, which I will gladly do for something I feel strongly about, but I have no desire to make a social statement about the manliness of kilts. And, if all four of us walked around wearing kilts, we would be making the following non-verbal social statement:
"We are very eccentric and feel the need to wear the same kind of clothes. We might not be homosexual, but we are hoping that you will assume we are latent crossdressers. Will you please beat the crap out of us, just to be sure?"
p.s. I still think you ought to pursue them as a sponsor for your radio program. There is certainly nothing wrong with a kilt; it just isn't me.
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