Saturday, August 07, 2004

which wife beater shall i wear today?

I have theorized that men can be placed into two categories: those who wear wife beaters as an undershirt and those who wear wife beaters as attire. I've noticed that men, American men at least, that wear wife beaters on a day to day basis tend to be very particular types of men. Perhaps they are the types that can open a beer bottle with their teeth. Perhaps they are the types that want to show off their tats. Perhaps they are the types that tend to show off their bodies when they really shouldn't. They are obviously too sexy for their shirts, in their minds, so day after day they put on that uniform of theirs. Rain, sleet, hail, snow; it doesn't matter. Wife beater it is and wife beater it shall be.

There's this dude in my social psychology class who wears a wife beater every day. He doesn't miss a beat. Everyday. He must have one of those Ronald McDonald style closets, where everything is the same but there's about twenty wife beaters to choose from.

The world is the wife beater wearers oyster and they can wear all the wife beaters they want until their heart's content. They just look lame, is all.


1 Comments:

Blogger Mike said...

some men don't wear "wife-beaters" but that is beyond the point. It is indeed possible to make generalisations and stereotypes and to draw meaningful conclusions from them (while acknowledging that generalising has limitations).

But, questions are begged: what are the implications of the type of character you describe; how does this relate to the "wife beater"; and, how does the stereotype that encouraged the term "wife beater" with regards to a sleeveless undershirt compare to your personally observed "wife beater"-wearing character?

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