DMB

For whom? -- Gropers?

I have to tell you MM that I get the hots for men in kilts. Can we expect you to adopt one any time soon? (No doubt they make men more fertile by keeping their testicles at a lower temperature too.)

Kassiana

Bullshit. Skirts are WAY more convenient.

For whom? -- Gropers?

Kass:
Uh, yeah. Some of us don't mind being groped by some of us. ::grin::

The Lone Ranger

Drat. Double post. Please ignore.

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The Lone Ranger

I used to work as a naturalist for a couple of years at a Girl Scout Camp. I used to teach kids how to identify plants and animals, take them on nature hikes, etc. It was a lot of fun.

Anyway, one late December day I told the group of campers that I'd meet them at 9:00 p.m. to take them out star-gazing and owl-calling. At the agreed-upon time, I came down to the lodge to find them all ready to go.

The temperature was about 20 degrees and the wind was blowing, and there was one girl wearing a skirt. The poor thing was obviously freezing. I told her that she should really go put some pants on, given the conditions, and that we'd wait for her. She told me that her family doesn't believe that women should dress like men, and that she wasn't allowed to wear pants.

That poor girl.

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As it happens, I own (and occasionally wear) a kilt. My family tartan is mostly blue, which, I'm told, goes well with my eyes. Once, at a Highland Games, some guy came up to me and said, "Man, if I looked like that, I'd wear a kilt too." I think it was meant as a compliment.

Cheers,

Michael

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diana

I could have been that little girl, Michael. I wasn't allowed to wear pants in public until I was almost out of high school, and only then because I found a loophole in my parents' "girls wear dresses" law.

The effect of this enforced adherence to randomly interpreted scripture is that I threw away all my dresses and skirts as soon as I left home at 18. To this day, I abhor them.

Kinda like enforced religious belief itself, come to think of it.

d

Opera Nut

I had to wear a dress to school every day for 12 years in public school. I think it's so the dirty old men teachers can get their thrills looking at young girls' legs, as pants are far more modest and warmer in the winter. I had a long dress that my aunt gave me that I wore in the winter, and the administration rednecks tried to figure out some way to ban long dresses ??????

As soon as I hit college I went into jeans adn t shirts mode. If I wear a skirt now a days, it's in the summertmie with no hose when it is really hot (6 months out of the year in this climate).

NOTE: My music teacher, when I was a kid was a brilliant man. He taught me both piano and violin for many years. He would not let his wife wear pants and he had four sons (he was a Unitarian from Missouri BTW).

A few years ago I saw his name in the paper, and saw the middle name and realized it was his next to youngest son. The son had been busted for having lots and lots of kiddie porn and his wife was busted too. They had $100,000 bail each or something. I guess they copped a plea and went off to jail for a long time sincee I never read anything more about it. I still wonder what happened. And whehter the weirdness about the mom not wearing pants had anything to do with it. The fact that this guy was a highly educated Unitarian who taught all his children to play string instruments just baffles me.

lpetrich

That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen -- what was his reason for not allowing his wife to wear pants?

excreationist

lpetrich:
That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen -- what was his reason for not allowing his wife to wear pants?
Maybe he felt ashamed in areas in his life (maybe he was a paedophile himself) so he tried to be ultra-conservative in other areas.

HelenM

The thing is, these days pants are women's clothing as well as men's.

So I don't think that verse really applies to women and pants, any more.

At the last choir/orchestra rehearsal - which is for a combined eight-church 9/11 service outdoors - the music pastor of my church said the women could wear pants at it...

Dress rules/codes are strange things. Did you see <a href="http://www.baptistboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=000147" target="_blank">this thread</a> on the Baptist Board? lol I don't know whether the originator of the thread was kidding or not...actually, though, it's not really that funny, the way wives and men are talked about on that thread.

love
Helen

MollyMac

Sure did. In fact I trolled on it. I kind of admire AITB though.