Aye, and so have I. Although I can understand Musket not being comfortable with it being associated in an inter gender context. He isn't your stereotypical what you expect gay men to dress or look like. (His dress sense is worse than mine...)

I notice he managed to get a dig in about soft furnishings. (As one of the two "best man" slaves at their wedding in Amsterdam a few years ago, I cracked a few jokes about being good at interior design and making soufflés. Kris's Dutch relatives were still having the jokes explained when the rest of us had hit the dance floor..)

I like the story behind the thread. Equality of opportunity is important for any society to flourish. Our right leaning new government should take heed of the idea that privilege has no place, and everybody should be treated equally and have the same opportunities and rights.

Musket is lucky in living today in a nice part of Scotland. In the '70s, my sis and her husband lived in Livingstone, and the anti English shit they had to put up with then was disgraceful.