Skirt in Tesco

[skirtingtoday]

Here is a video someone took of a man wearing a mini-skirt in Tesco which I have just noticed on the Internet. (No it wasn't me - though I do wear skirts there!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmd7VUeoCVI

[crfriend]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmd7VUeoCVI

Wow. Why does the term "panopticon" come to mind?

Either the bloke in the vid was in on it, or he's really out of touch with his surroundings!

[pleated]

If he is not "in on it" then it is a gross violation of his privacy.

[crfriend]

If he is not "in on it" then it is a gross violation of his privacy.

'Privacy" is an interesting notion, and clearly the perception of it varies from culture to culture.

Where I dwell, if you are in a public space then "anything and everything" goes; if one is in a "public space", as the reasoning goes, then one forgoes any sense of privacy unless it's an explicit act like whispering in somebody's ear.

At a practical level, since most of us who are members here live in "surveillance societies", the notion of having anything private, save for what we retain secreted betwixt our ears, is laughable. This is one of the reasons that I call for those who wish to defy "Western Convention" and wear skirts do so in a very public manner. Face it, unless you only wear skirts in the "privacy" of your own home with the shades pulled down tight, folks are going to find out. Laundry days when one doesn't want to run the electric-dryer speak volumes to the observant! (This is why I have an "indoor clothesline"; it cuts down on questions. What's on it is between Sapphire and I.)

My original comment had more to do with the seeming fact that the chap in the vid was acting like he didn't know he was being "filmed" (what a quaint notion, that). In my part of the world, if one lets his guard down for the length of that video he's setting himself up for something possibly vastly worse than having a few minutes of iPhone video shot of him. If you get my drift.

[GerdG]

A typical iPhone shooting. I feel pretty sure the “old man” is not aware of being captured. The person standing behind him has “played” with the phone, pretending to seek music. He or she has started holding the phone vertically, then changed to horizontal.

Illegal or not, it is a risk with which we have to calculate

[skirted_in_SF]

Considering the fact that this video was posted in late December (I wondered about the Christmas decorations that would appear at the top of the frame from time to time) and has only been viewed a few hundred times, I guess the subject's privacy hasn't been abused too much.
But I still wonder about people who post images of others, probably without their permission. A great number of people seem to have descended into a voyeuristic society.

[janrok]

I fail to see what the (privacy) problem is.
In the 38 years of skirting and kilting ondoubtedly people have cought me on video or photograph and I could not care less!
Much to my surprise I saw myself crossing the Spui (street in the center of The Hague) on television news many years ago and a few days later I saw the same shot!
So I am in the NOS archives. Big deal!

If you want privacy you should stay at home and that is not what we want on Skirtcafé, now do we?

'Show yourselves, Jan.

[Milfmog]

Yawn. A kid with nothing to think about and no manners spends a few seconds making a very poor video and then other folks waste their endless supply of time viewing it and discussing it. Sorry, I've got better things to do.

Have fun,


Ian.

[skirtingtoday]

I too do not see what the privacy violation is. If he was in his own home and through the front window, yes - but in such a public place, I would say not. He was fine with his choice of outfit and looked comfortable.

I also wondered if he was "in on the gag" but I don't really think so. How many times have we seen people texting, e-mailing or playing music on smart phones these days, I think it would be difficult to tell if the camera was actually on or not.

Anyway, good for him - and good to see such images "in the wild" It can only help the case for more men to do so.

[pleated]

Did I over-react in my original comment? Maybe.
I suppose we just have to accept that what we do in public cannot really have the same privacy protection as what we do in private. My negative reaction was more to the ignorance of the person who was trying to make fun of an older person.

[SkirtRevolution]

What gets me is that there are still people who actually make a big deal about a guy wearing a skirt. Granted, it was short, I can not say the jacket look went well with the skirt but it wasn't at all feminine. I want to get a camera and film the guy who is filming and show it on youtube "Weird person making a big deal about guy in skirt".

[Tassierob]

I was walking through the mall the other day when suddenly a young girl started playing with her phone while looking straight at me. I just gave her a big smaile and walked past.
As far as I am concerned if she show it to a thousand people and just one of those thinks "I might try that" then I am spreading the word that me in skirts are here to stay and will continue to grow in number.

[GerdG]

I was walking through the mall the other day when suddenly a young girl started playing with her phone while looking straight at me. I just gave her a big smaile and walked past.
As far as I am concerned if she show it to a thousand people and just one of those thinks "I might try that" then I am spreading the word that me in skirts are here to stay and will continue to grow in number.

I'm with you here. Like I wrote some messages up we must calculate with the risc of being published. And I can rather easily live with that risc.

[Taj]

It used to be called rude to stare at people, which in an electronic sense is what was happening. My biggest objection to the video is the outright lack of manners. I've been photographed by tourists while fly fishing in my Utilikilt, wading in various waters. No big deal. Its entirely a different context from some sneaky brat scoring a u-tube post.

[renesm1]

Unfortunately, as we appear in public it is taken as some implicit waiver of our rights to privacy, I'm afraid!!!