why do people look at crossdressing weird

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Talks about getting wives used to it. They still look like skirts to most people. I am sure my wife would not have a problem with me wearing one at home or on hot days but I am sure she would not want to be seen with me in the mall with me wearing a kilt. It would attract too much attention.

Janedoe

I would not want to wear one on a hot day as kilts are made of wool and are thick and heavy. Hot days need loose, lightweight, cotton skirts, definitely not a kilt.:eek:

To the stock 'I think what you do is weird' statement I give my stock 'I think you are terribly dull' statement.

As Dr. Hunter S. Thompson used to say "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

While wearing kilts is not really crossdressing, even though they area kind of skirt, they are a man's garment, they are a start to men being able to wear skirts in public. Yes, they are not common everyday wear, even in Scotland, but that is changing slowly. You won't see many, but you will, on rare occasions see a kilted ,man, even around my home area. And, more and more, they are becoming modern kilts like Utilikilts, Freedom kilts, or Amerikilts. From what I've read, seeing modern kilts in Seattle happens on a regular basis, but then, that is where Utilikilts is located. There are regular "kilt nights in many of the larger areas, of the country (this includes Canada also),where a group of guys get together and go to a pub or bar to have a few pints. Janedoe, your wife would probably not like you wearing a kilt in public because of all the attention it gets from women.

Satrana
A utility kilt is not pleated and looks like short pants from the side.
Utility kilt is a "new" invention, for casual wear. I am sure a Scott would not be seen in one!
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Originally Posted by Jere Oneil

Janedoe, your wife would probably not like you wearing a kilt in public because of all the attention it gets from women.

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Is that good attention or negative attention?

Either way my wife would not like it we are shy and do not want attention.

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Originally Posted by janedoe311

Satrana
A utility kilt is not pleated and looks like short pants from the side.
Utility kilt is a "new" invention, for casual wear. I am sure a Scott would not be seen in one!
http://www.utilikilts.com/store/cust...products_id=19


Is that good attention or negative attention?

Either way my wife would not like it we are shy and do not want attention.

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Believe me, most of it is good attention. How else would you explain a nice looking young woman striking up a conversation with a bald headed slightly overweight old fart like myself. Just to keep this in a CD frame. I wear kilts for many reasons, not the least of which is to be able to wear any kind of skirt in public and not be ridiculed. And, despite what some kilt fanatics say, a kilt, by the standard definition of a skirt, is a skirt.

Well lol, personally i think everyone crossdresses nowadays, so what does it matter what one wears, women do it, they like to call it trend, fashion, though technically whatever way you look at it it's still crossdresing, not that I personally care if women wear male style attire, I won't lose any sleep over it. If a man puts a skirt or dress on, then my god it's oh my charley lol.. Whose the hipocrite lol... Though society still in it's ignorence has many small minds, it's nice to think that many are actually coming round to realising that it's nothing to worry about in our world, when more serious issues like crime and terrorism are more serious issues take precident (hope i spelt that right lol) well It's a small issue as usual being blown out of proportion i think.. in our 21st century world it should be a case of live and let live, crossdressers, transvestites are hardly a serious threat to society or come to that world peace, so what the heck does it matter... we are harmless, society ought to realise this and be more concerned about more serious issues.. I rest my case!

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Originally Posted by suzy

I had a discussion about this just last night... It is just societal norms for the current time period. It has varied over the years and will continue to vary.

The main source of the problem, in my humble opinion, stems from ignorance. The more educated a person becomes the more understanding he/she becomes....but unfortunately we have a lot of stupid people surviving in the world.:D

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AMEN !!! Kaitlin

why do people view crossdressing as wierd...probably because it is a little wierd. I look at my avatar...now for a man, I got to say it's a little strange to look like that...what I can't understand is why some people so vehemently hate crossdressers..now thats wierd

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Originally Posted by Sweet Jane

why do people view crossdressing as wierd...probably because it is a little wierd. I look at my avatar...now for a man, I got to say it's a little strange to look like that...what I can't understand is why some people so vehemently hate crossdressers..now thats wierd

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And 90% of the population do not understand Gender confusion in any form. They are becoming more "understanding" of TG over CD thought but it is not saying much.

So it is a matter of educating the general public on the various forms of gender confusion, to get rid of the hate and fear, (and I am sure the hate of cd's is just as much fear).

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Originally Posted by Lovely Rita

People have been conditioned to look at it as weird. The same way they have been trained to accept woman in pants as normal, they have been trained to see men in dresses as abnormal. Conditioning.

I know this is a very simple outlook but I believe it never the less.

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thats pretty much what i think to we are all conditioned at an early age as to what is normal lol :2c:

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Originally Posted by Bluebird GG

we leave in a stereotypical planet as it has been since the dawn of time, but i dont see what people have a cow about a guy in a dress theirs not a damn thing wrong with it, so what if a guy wants to wear a dress people dont have to look and accept what the other person wants to do if they luv cding is their own business not anyones elses, i thought this wuz a free world, so then people get with it then!:rant:

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"This world will never be free until the last politician has been strangled with the guts of the last priest."

-Voltaire.

I reckon guys that don't crossdress are a bit weird! It's a natural thing for us...as it's been said varoiusly, we are programmed to believe things that are not true. Conditioned like Pavlov's dogs. People that don't realise that they are slaves to defective programming have no measure of their own minds.

The notion of being 'free' in ones mind is, sadly, in our world, as rare as we crossdressers appear to be. Extremely.:2c:

Attitudes change.
I once was at a Science Fiction convention where a couple entered the costume contest dressed as a Venetian couple from the late 1700s - crossdressed. He wore a hoop skirt, she a tricornered hat, short jacket, and knee breeches. What I think is important here is that she wore her costume the entire weekend while he only wore his dress for the contest - and wore a veil. Her outfit was closer to today's women's fashions, anyway.
Women in the early 1900s fought to wear man-tailored clothing. Crossdressing for women wasn't always acceptable. Joan of Arc's preference for men's clothes (which, by the way, showed off her legs - women's wear in her days was very modest) was a big part of the excuse the court that condemned her used to burn her at the stake.