----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tassierob wrote:We need a united voice but that is almost impossible while most men don't come out in public for their own very good reasons.
The ideal situation would be for a high profile media person, business man or politition to start wearing skirts full time. We need to make people think more about the issue and to do that they must be constantly reminded that men are entitled to wear what they want and we do have options.
And in the western world that wearing a skirt does NOT automatically make you a crossdresser or gay. Just comfortable and happy with themselves. A state a lot more men need to be in.
Aye, the first sentence of the quote is the problem. I posted a proposal concerning making a documentary motion picture with the intent of getting it aired on the Documentary Channel. I have had zero replies (see post under In the News / advocacy). A little depressing, since I think greater public exposure is needed to bring the subject of wearing of skirts and kilts by men into the mainstream. Lacking the conditions of paragraph two of the above quote, a documentary would be the next best thing, or so I had thought.
The Documentary Channel does not pay producers for the content, but will provide free air time if broadcast quality standards are in compliance. i do not think that there would be no potential to make any money but as a skirt wearing male, I think it would be in my best interest, and the interest of the members of this forum (skirtcafe) to do the video. I am obviously wrong, or perhaps paragraph one is the overriding factor here (not quite sure which). I would think that anyone with the courage to publicly wear a skirt would be at least somewhat interested.
There are funding sources available for independent producers, and if there was any interest I would submit a funding proposal. I can't make a video featuring only myself. So it is with some measure of disappointment that I figure that there is no real interest in trying to bring the topic into the mainstream. Broadcast on cable and satellite TV would have been good start, or so I thought. I used to work in TV broadcasting so video quality issues are not a problem, as I have professional HD video production equipment and experience. As I said I can not make a motion picture featuring only myself, if the people of this forum are not interested in participating, no point for me to try to proceed with a funding request to cover the production costs.
I had hoped that the conditions of paragraph three of Tassierob's quote could be made clear in the motion picture. So it it with some measure of disappointment I will drop the topic, and continue with the documentary that I am currently working on. I guess the best I can do at this point is to just continue to wear a skirt in public. This is a usefull forum for the discussion of skirt / kilt issues, and I am glad it is here, but the message needs wider distribution.