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Go to the Middle East and most guys can wear a dress - a long one. Mini skirts on guys would be gross. But, hey go to SF where they are naked-plus at their parades and protests.

Ok well you know how some of you men like to sit with your legs wide open? Please, refrain from doing so if you wear a skirt--for EVERYONE'S sake.

The majority of today's men are being femininized anyway, might as well start dressing like them.

I'm pretty sure it's one of the earliest Man Rules:

"Thou man shall not wear a skirt in any situation or circumstance"

Ok, why is it an issue? I am Scottish by heritage, as well as English, Irish, German, French, and Russian, but 2/3 Scottish, so I claim that for many reasons. First and foremost, everything Scottish, the "skirt", bagpipes, historical/ancestral lands, history not only of Scotland, but the entire British Isles. I have 3 kilts, or "skirts", one in the family modern tartan, one in the ancient, and a McGregor that my father wore when he was marching as a member of The Highlanders Scottish Rite Corp in NW Ohio yrs ago. (which he wants back btw). I wear a skirt with pride, scoff at the gawkers/onlookers, which are actually few and far between in regards to negative vibes. More often than not, I have received flowing complements, drinks bought, and many a maid's resolve in the process of wearing my "skirts". If any of the Western Hemisphere's "manly men" are so worried about it, just go out and buy a Corvette or some other silly waste of money, so everyone can make their own private jokes at red lights as you passivley sit for it turn green. Trousers are a modern invention, for those who have evolved their thought processes to a perverbial brick wall, and are afraid to climb over it. By the by, just more fun for me, so stay timid, I like it that way.

oh btw Blerg, funny that god (uncapitalized for a reason) is always depicted in a robe..."Thou shalt chaste, retreat and sit in contemplation of thine assinine comments, until told to get up and live again"...so speaketh whatever page you'd like to look up.

Who cares? If they want to dress this way, so what. The world has a million problems, people are dying, wars are going on, and this "issue" is so ridiculous.

P.S. No one faults a kilt, even if the ones now worn were an English invention and do not reflect the traditional Scottish kilt.

Live and let live! If someone wants to wear a manskirt, let him wear it. If your prudeness and sensibilities are hurt in any which way, by all means, go live in a bubble! I remember when my grandmother used to say that men with ponytails or men who wore earrings were gay or criminals, that was her time, and things change, and so has she. Although I'm not going to start wearing a manskirt any time soon, I think it'd be great to try one on (even if just for shock value!). :) My grandmother would fall over dead! :)

It's the 21st century, wear what you want to wear. Jeez! Anyone who has a problem with what someone else is wearing should learn to mind their own business, or perhaps, get therapy.

Any Man who wears a skirt needs Therapy, but now in Calif. you would be called "Girly Man",just ask Aronld.

I would think that all the men trying to boost their sperm counts to impregnate their significant others would appreciate that cool airflow around their "boys". I'm just saying....

It has nothing to do with manly traits. It is cultural and biologically benificent

If I get to wear a skirt; do my boys get to fly free?

Obama in a skirt: "We Can Change... Tee Hee".

I like how the word "skirt" automatically makes people assume that anyone wearing that style of clothing is a woman or a homosexual man (at least in this corner of the planet).

Fine! Call it a kilt! Make up a new name for it! Getting hung up on the word... grow up, people.

lol, true! All manly men of God must wear pants... er, unless you're Jesus or God... then you don't have to wear pants and still be manly, lmao.

Men in France wearing shirts, now there's a suprise. LOL , no wonder there dying out, and there country is being taken over. I'm sure Bono would like to wear a shirt and live in Africa. Brad Pitt needs a skirt since his wife has the pants. LOL

UtiliKilt!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Utilikilts_Company

You know - after having spent much of my younger years in a medieval re-creation group, I go weak at the knees at the sign of a man in a skirt. I think it's all about what you associate a skirt with. To me, a man in a skirt/kilt is quite masculine and powerful.

Kilts have been worn for centuries...as a individual of Scottish decent....those that think Kilts or skirts are foolish...are full of Blarney!

Deut.22
[5] The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

Having read through these comments,
I find peoples reactions fascinating.
I am prepared for critisism
or even insults for looking stupid
or even ridiculous in a skirt, buy I don't really care what others think, My life, My Money and My Choice,
Nor is it harming anyone.
I fail to see how wearing a skirt would indicate my sexuality.
Do we assume that women in pants are lesbians?
No doubt, some will be, but the majority are not.
Surely the same criteria should apply to the male.

As the "Tim Stannard" who was slightly
misquoted in the Guardian article,
( as I don't wear a skirt every day).
I don't plan to cover the same ground that is on my website.
I tend to think that it is all in the name.
Skirt = feminine / Sarong = masculine.
If any of you have doubts about whether a man
should wear a Sulu Sarong or skirt, just ask a Fijian or Samoan.
YOU tell him he is crossdressing!

As for "Turkey Fife" Quoting Deut22: In Biblical times everyone wore a tunic similar to the North African Galabeya.

Daniel wrote:
I remember when my grandmother used to say that men with ponytails or men who wore earrings were gay or criminals.

That might have been true but your gandmother would not have been caught dead, let alone live in pants. That would be cross dressing.

Turkey Fife don't throw Deut.22 at us. For one thing everyone wore what we would call a dress today. It was about women dressing to come of as men and men coming off as women. Some men wanted to get out of thhe war andsome women wanted the freedom the men have.

Look at george Washington - he wore stockings!

original Deffinition of skirt:
merriam-webster
a free-hanging part of an outer garment or undergarment extending from the waist down

So men put away your top coat and your bathrobe - they have skirts.

Got to go know I need to grocery shop, I will be wearing my blue jean cargo skirt- plenty of pockets.

Rich

"For the love of God stop blurring the lines between the sexes"?

What is meant by this ridiculous statement?j

I wear skirts as a straight male, and actual skirts, not sarongs or kilts. Why? Because I like them. What is more masculine than being assertive and doing that which you like instead of bowing down to others?

When I wear them I do not try to appear feminine. I don't put on a bra or wig, or other "feminine" things" (tights are unisex), I do not act feminine. My movements may be a bit more refined, but that is because one needs to move differently in a skirt.

Have you not noticed that most of the murderers and rapists fit the description of "normal". That the wife beaters fit the description of "manly"? Personally I want no association with such people.

Looking like a thug or a gansta is more accepted than a guy wearing a skirt? Priorities people.

When I read lines like the one I quoted I have to ask. So What? We humans do not seem to have done all that well acting as we have. Here we are in the midst of another stupid war, and our world economy is doing pretty awful.

Why are you so scared of the lines being blurred anyhow? What is so bad about it?

Castelyn says:It's the tight constraint around the waist and hips that makes many conventional garments uncomfortable.

Not trousers, with trousers, it's the rough seam between the legs crushing and slicing into the male plumbing that makes trousers uncomfortable. The Scots and the "other" 80% of the known world who wear MUGs as a daily wear item are smarter than anyone still living in the Post Victorian age in the "West".
YEA for MUGs, ie: Male Unbifurcated Garments or skirted garments.

wtfSERIOUSLYwtf said:all the cultures that still have men wearing "skirts" are still primitive for a reason.

O really, you mean like for instance, Prince Charles of England?
or David Beckham?
or the Emperor of Japan?