Hooters for da Gays

A couple of weekends ago, the Handsome Honey and I got ourselves out of the house and went to the local Highland Games. It was a small, but fun-filled event with food and music...

...and lots of local Scottish culture. Limited fun for us, seeing as neither of us has much Scot in our backgrounds. (Believe me, we know. We're both genealogy buffs.)

The highlight of the day though was watching burly men throwing heavy objects around...




... in kilts.
As this went on, it occurred to me that this was much like Hooters. The whole "look but don't touch", "all in good clean fun" aspect of it. Although, as you can see, the gamers here in the Bible Belt do NOT subscribe to the theory of going commando under their kilts. Oh well.

Don't think for a minute that the men were the only ones participating. There were some big burly women throwing stuff around as well...

... this is something called a Broom Toss. Or something like that. It was accompanied by typically sexist commentary by the announcer.

The sole co-ed event we saw was something called the Bonnie Knees contest where blindfolded women were encouraged to feel as far up the leg as they wanted while determining who had the sexiest knees.

I seem to recall finding old photos among my parents' collection of a similar party game where the women were supposed to identify their husband's knees among a lineup of guests. Slightly disturbing, but again: all in good fun. I can't imagine a similar event at a gay gathering these days. Either people would be horrified or they'd get way too carried away.

Best leave that one to the imagination.