Homophobic is putting another part of the tribe down just because you don’t agree with their customs, or asking someone to be quiet when discussing them. It like saying the drag queens are bad for showing up at pride because it makes the rest of the world think we are all drag queens.

Bob it was a joke that I was the only one that thought was funny. Accept that. I apologize if I offended you or any one else, it was not my intent.

I put a snarky comment at the end of a post and now you all think you know me. I tried to explain something that i learned talking to a dude in a hospice bed literally 25 years ago, and obviously did a crap job of it, try relating it to skinhead drag.

Yes to some groups a jacket is more than a fashion statement or to keep you warm; it is a merit badge. Why should any one care if they don’t want to gain access to the group?

If any one reads this, i was gone for the weekend, and has any thing else to heap on, go learn to surf at Mavericks.

If you look that good in an outfit like that, I could ALMOST forgive your channelling of Emily Post.

Almost.

Moreover, if a person enters into a dangerous sexual scenario based solely upon what his (or her) partner is wearing, he (or she) is damn fool.

Maybe it’s one of those things where you have to be in the secret club to truly understand how great it is, but from the outside it looks unbearably fussy.

In the before times within the leather tribe, one eared their leathers by submitting to more complex scenes. One theory was that if someone eared them at a glance you could see how experienced they were and not get involved a scene that was beyond their ability. This was especially important for an inexperienced sub; because their is nothing more dangerous than a dom that has no idea what he, or she, is doing. The military has been using a similar system of earning a wearable distinction for eons. And if one studies history there are many stories of what happens to the lower ranks when a commission is just purchased.

Re. your resent purchases: as long as you can take the pointing and giggling wear what you like

Sadly Scott’s explanation is all too true these days.

Although I was being sarcastic, I do stand by my opinion of bad styling in the pic, it is one thing to create tension in a composition, and another just to blow it by being jarring. Plus the occasional dissenting opinion helps in a “fair use” defense.

Its all right there in the Leatherman Rule Book.