Belember wrote: ↑Sat Jun 15, 2024 5:02 pmI apologize if this is out of line and feel free to delete this if it's against the rules; however, I feel a bit upset and I would like to express my opinion. Let me explain myself and turn this around - with skirting in mind. While I can understand where the "evangelists" points of view come from, they are missing/forgetting something very important - the greatest commandment (if you are interested, please look it up.) While I constantly struggle with it, it also means not to judge others or
yourself and to Be Kind.
Not off-topic in the slightest, as if one never asks one risks never knowing! There's no such thing as a "stupid question" -- only stupid mistakes made because the right questions were not asked.
The "greatest commandment", of course, is the most common one in most religions, most commonly known as "The Golden Rule", [0] which states, "Treat others the way you would be treated yourself." Interestingly, that is also a common theme in
ethics in addition to religion, so there is much commonality involved. Now, I'm not religious in any way -- but I do live a very ethical life, and am ethical to others in my surrounding, even though I know it puts me at a distinct disadvantage in a remarkably non-ethical world.
I tend to not judge others, and what gets my goat is when I am judged by others, that judgment is flat wrong, hurtful, and damaging to my reputation [1]. That's when the gloves come off. This is the realm of the zealot and the keyboard warrior, which are fortunately a minority of the population. The keyboard-warrior gets away with the behaviour because there's usually no way to penalise him for his behaviour; the zealot is
on a mission to get his story heard far and wide, and thus does not care whether it infuriates or injures others -- and there's usually no recourse to these because of the notion of "free speech"
If I were to guess, I would say that over a billion different men on Earth in many different religions wear a tube of some type and have throughout history. You are not alone by skirting! Skirt with dignity and strength.
More than don't, I'd hazard. The problem seems peculiarly tied to Western European thinking.
I have two rainbow kilts, and I am proud to wear them for the promise of a rainbow in the sky and partially about the trans-* scale. When I wear the rainbow kilt, I usually get a few nice comments!
Wear them happily! Who am I to judge or question.
I wouldn't, but that's
me and my leanings. Nothing more and nothing else. I tend to dislike flying others' flags.
[0] No, NOT "He who has the gold makes the rules."!
[1] Reputation: n. That what people are
not thinking of another.
