Re: Old Men ?
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:37 pm
OOOHHH did anyone see my GERITOL
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I borrowed it as I was feeling LOW!oldsalt1 wrote:OOOHHH did anyone see my GERITOL
Welcome. Nice you go to festivals. I like to go festivals. Especially more days. Than I only wear skirts. But I have the experience. On festivals they are more tolerant. Indeed. And when you walk on the street most of the time you haven't another reaction than I wear a pant or something else. Which kind of festivals do you go?Nevermore wrote:Hi, Just found and joined this group.
I have a few kilts and short skirts and love to wear them whenever I can.
Have found that festivals and events are way more tollerant than the everyday street but that said have never had a comment in the street.
I have read some of the posts and comments here and wanted to ask if most of the members aren't older men ?
It seems most are from the comments.
And if so why is this ?
Do younger men just wear skirts and not think it's worth mentioning or joining a group about ?
Or do they not even think of it till they get over 40 ?
and if so why ?
I'd be very interested in why this seems to be such an older mens thing
I suspect it's mostly a quirk that a fairly large proportion of the guys here are "older" as there must be younger guys that wear skirts regularly. However, I can understand why older guys might be more accepting of the matter. Older guys already have most of the "difficult period" of life conveniently behind them, have reputations that they can stand on, and don't need to "prove anything" to anybody; they're comfortable with who and what they are. Younger men frequently don't have that and feel like they're swimming upstream against a flood.WesleyN wrote:I wear skirts since I was young. But I don't know why people at older age will be member of a skirts forum. Maybe I think when people are getting older, they will be less afraid who they are.
Old is a condition that all humans go through. However you do not have to be old. You can remain young in your heart and in your physical being. You are old when life is no longer fun for you. Age has nothing to do with it. I knew people who were in their nineties and were young. I have also met people who were in their forties and were so old that they felt they would die the next day but were in good health.WesleyN wrote:What are older men? Which age is that? I don't know. Nowadays you're old when you're a year 80 or 90. But in my opinion you're old when you are missing everything. When you don't have long to live. I think. The term is so relative.
Why wait?weeladdie18 wrote:It is probably fair to say that many of the older members have been dressing as "men in skirts " for many years....
Perhaps one of the dreams of life is to survive long enough to give up work and explore skirt wearing as a fulltime life style.
When I reach Old Salt's age , I will have more stories to tell...........weeladdie
Old Salt Is a senior member of this forum. It is my opinion he is an inspiration to us all.Caultron wrote:Why wait?weeladdie18 wrote:It is probably fair to say that many of the older members have been dressing as "men in skirts " for many years....
Perhaps one of the dreams of life is to survive long enough to give up work and explore skirt wearing as a fulltime life style.
When I reach Old Salt's age , I will have more stories to tell...........weeladdie
You gonna let yourself get beaten by an old man?
It all depends on the quality of the brew and the quantity of the brew. One or two might sharpen one's state of mind; three or more might well muddle it (+/- depending on one's own tolerance).FranTastic444 wrote:I hesitate to mention this, but I've been on the wicked strong New England IPA's and it is Friday so what the heck
Certainly the ageing process affects things, but I don't think it's down to meno/andropause completely. My ex was already in menopause when we met due to a hysterectomy she'd had as an emergency measure years before and only had a portion of one ovary left. I slowed down out of sympathy and to stay in sync with her. We were always joined at the mind and heart and not at the groin anyway, so it didn't matter all that much.For guys who have been with their (female) partner for many years, does the onset of menopause have a subconscious effect on the male partner that might turn years of secret skirting into something more open and above board? Similarly, does andropause have an impact upon how a man behaves with regards to skirting?
That's a possibility as well, and may also dovetail into the fact that Skirt Cafe and the forum that preceded it ("Tom's Cafe") has been around since the late 1990s. Sometime in the very early 2000s, the chap who ran Tom's Cafe passed away from cancer, and the decision was undertaken to convert the original forum to new ownership, retain the old as a memorial site, and move on from there. That was the birth of Skirt Cafe. I'd "lurked" at Tom's, and later at the new Skirt Cafe, but didn't start posting anything until a couple of years after I'd adopted skirts as part of my normal wardrobe. (Tom's Cafe was born out of the USENET days when much chatter was going on in alt.fashion about guys in skirts, and a few helpful folks there, anxious to get the skirt/kilt-wearing guys out of their space helped Tom set up a forum. The rest, as they say, is history. USENET is pretty close to dead now thanks to its openness (it eventually got swamped by spam and junk, and without further utility withered away; there may be a few heavily-moderated groups thereon today, but likely not many). Some here, no doubt, likely recall the days of dialup and BBSes, which tended to function like forums do today. So there's the window.Another angle with regards to there being a glut of guys in their late 40's and early 50's - this is the right demographic for early(ish) enthusiastic (then late teen / early 20's) adopters of Internet technology who have bounced around from forum to forum as different topics have taken their interest.
Hmmm... It's Saturday now, and if you're still piling it in, you might want to slow down a bit. The hangover is going to be colossal otherwise.More beer needed, I think
While I have left dial up I still belong to a BBS, actually two of them and still get QWK packets down loaded every day. While they are not dead they are few and far between. I have been on several forums but this one is one of the best operated. I like the software that this forum uses as it make it easy to move around in the forum. There are also very few problems when it comes to using it.crfriend wrote:Some here, no doubt, likely recall the days of dialup and BBSes, which tended to function like forums do today. So there's the window.