Movie: Braveheart. Scene: Mel Gibson charges with battle axe up, ready for the kill, for victory unto death.

Wardrobe: Kilt. 100% Scottish Wool in Tartan. Knee length. Undergarments: personal choice and unrevealed. Left to imagination. 

Visual: Mel’s muscled calves ripple as he runs.  His sleeveless, bicep-bearing shirt reveal his muscled conviction to justice, triumph, and the “win.”  Camera zooms in on calf and quad muscles rippling with each solid muck-ridden boot print on the battle field.

What makes Mel is so hypermasculine that he can pull off the kilt, the skirt?

What if . . . . he charged with a skirt dotted with white and yellow daisies in filmy tulle? 

Could he still wield his battle cry? And be hear by his men, his battalion?

Or, not even close to plausible? Would your community bristle? Comment, mock, joke under breath? Even, protest?

So, what is your dress code? What is your community’s comfort with a person in attire incongruous with traditions, stereotypes, biases, comfort?

How would your leadership handle harassment and bullying of someone’s appearance? Zero-tolerance or swept under the rug?

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