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I'm simply arguing against making judgement about people based on an outdated and worthless convention
To do something just for the sake of doing to not offend someone who can't even explain why they are offended is frankly stupid
You mention shaking hands and bowing - yet you pass over the etiquette of tipping your hat in public ...... that would be more akin to bowing or shaking hands as that is done when greeting .... yet you don't mention that as something that should be done as convention
Honestly, if someone takes offense about how I dress or something as trivial as how I wear a hat - I'm really not going to care too much as their opinion isn't going to be one I'm typically going to value .... I'll give them a chance to explain why it would be offensive, but when they can't I can just go about my business
Those people will simply have to accept that their precious sensibilities and being easily offended will not dictate society around them and learn to live with it
I will also defend those who people want to look down at for something as stupid as not following a convention that just doesn't apply to society today and that no one really follows completely - even those who claim to follow it
I think those who wear hats inside either have lice, or untreatable/untreated dandruff, or didn't wash their hair. Wearing hats in restaurants, theaters, libraries, churches and other places like that was always allowed to women only, to preserve the beauty of their outfits and prevent women's embarassement. In someone's home, if you are a guest, you have to take you hat off, woman or not you are, otherwise, it's insult.
Yep....and also they could be bald......and have a problem with it.
especially restaurants (around here it's usually ballcaps). I understand in some parts of the country, a cowboy hat is worn anywhere--I don't like that either, really. It's a lack of respect in my opinion. My friend's teenage son wore a ballcap to the doctor's office and was offended when the doctor, who was examining him, asked him to remove his cap during the exam! That's just not thinking! (Same goes for sunglasses, BTW, you are supposed to meet a person's eyes when you talk to them and how can you do that with sunglasses on?! It's for security purposes, too--issues above and beyond societal convention.)
It seems that those who obsess over men wearing hats inside are from authoritarian/conformist backgrounds. People like that scare me. People of my faith have been murdered and dispossessed by people like that, for millennia. The leaders of their religions tell them they are supposed to hate and kill us - and so they do - just because they're "supposed to". And they're "supposed to" be upset over men wearing hats indoors, or women not wearing hats here or there, or whatever... Same mentality.
I’m sorry, but it’s ludicrous to equate etiquette and social convention with religiously inspired murder.
especially restaurants (around here it's usually ballcaps). I understand in some parts of the country, a cowboy hat is worn anywhere--I don't like that either, really. It's a lack of respect in my opinion. My friend's teenage son wore a ballcap to the doctor's office and was offended when the doctor, who was examining him, asked him to remove his cap during the exam! That's just not thinking! (Same goes for sunglasses, BTW, you are supposed to meet a person's eyes when you talk to them and how can you do that with sunglasses on?! It's for security purposes, too--issues above and beyond societal convention.)
About cowboy hats.....
At one time I showed AQHA horses.......cowboys tipped their hat to ladies and removed them when they should inside.
Personally, wearing a hat inside just feels plain weird. I almost always wear a hat outside though from October-April.
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I do notice when men wear hats inside,
