The Laughing Wolf

A Kilt Is Not A Skirt

I had wanted to leave this as a comment over at Professor Althouse's site, but I don't have (or can't remember) a blogger ID. So, I am just going to post this here. This comes from reading about a rather clueless dweeb attacking Sonia Belle on her site, and an afternoon perusal of Althouse to see what all was there beside the message that set off the morality police. Here is the comment that could not be left:

A couple of quick points. First, a kilt is not technically a skirt, and only the ill-informed (or bigoted), or someone really trying to start something, call them that. :) There is a really old and bad joke about it being called a kilt because the last person to call it a skirt got kilt...

While Craig is technically correct (and I agree with him on the regimental tie issue), the fact is that general usage today has people wearing tartans they like no matter what. Personally, I like the tartan(s) of my primary clan, but I also don't blow a gasket if I see someone else wearing it who is not related. In point of fact, many clan societies will try to get them to join if they like it so much, as an associate or similar member. I don't recognize the tartan he is wearing, but will also point out that there are a number of regional, city, or other tartans which can be worn by those not in a clan.

I would also ask Craig how he arrived at wearing proper automatically becoming indecent exposure? That comes across much more as a cheap shot than anything.

And, I fear that the following will forever ban me from being blogrolled:

I am a descendent of Duncan, slain by the traitor MacBeth.

Fountain pens at dawn?

LW