Asking a Scotsman what he is wearing under his kilt is often considered a light-hearted joke.
But a leading bagpiper has complained that it constitutes harassment and said women use it as an opportunity to grope and “upskirt” those who wear traditional Highland dress.
Willie Armstrong, a member of the popular Scots band the Red Hot Chilli Pipers, said women took indecent photographs of him at gigs and suggested that double standards were at play.
Taking part in a discussion on “upskirting” on BBC Radio Scotland, Armstrong, 55, said: “It’s the constant ‘are you a true Scotsman?’ They are basically asking you if you are wearing underwear or not.
“If you reversed that behaviour and I was to say to a woman, can I ask what you are wearing underneath your dress, it would be a whole different ball game.
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