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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Speculater 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They tell you to trust it though?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

And it's telling me I can't pull this off.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure the modern term for this look is "fuckboy"

[–] thorbot 18 points 1 year ago

Fuckboy, suckboy, cuckboy. You can have it all

[–] VelvetStorm 69 points 1 year ago

I'm short and fat.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d say “the office dress code,” but what I really mean is my gut.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was a straight fad. Now it's a gay fad. Lotta hateful crazy people. Soooo the fact that someone may try to attack me for wearing such things even if I want to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The gays ruin all the fun.

Just like wrestling in the showers.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What's stopping me is lack of hunk.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Come on, you're not just some guy!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live down the street from a college. Many of my neighbors are college students. I've seen roughly this look on a handful of very young men in the last year. I've seen guys in their early 20s/late teens playing sports in roughly this outfit. It is coming back/fashion is more fluid these days. There are still trends, but many young people wear all sorts of stuff that just looks good on their bodies with little regard for era or popularity.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

That's currently what I'm seeing in terms of style these days. The prevalence of body positivity has allowed people to wear things that flatter themselves. There will always be the crowd that tries something new, but no one is going to be shunned for trying something that works or is comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Since I don't recognize these movies I'm half tempted to think these are just shots from gay porn intros.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The first picture is the first A Nightmare on Elm Street (thats Johnny Depp, fyi). I think the second picture is the second Nightmare movie (it has a baseball game in gym class scene but I'm not sure if that's it). I couldn't tell you what the last picture is from but I would guess one of the Friday the 13th movies.

Edit: I think the second and third pictures go together. Maybe they're both Nightmare 2 but I'm not sure.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A lot of old horror movies went the "soft-core porn with stabbing" route, so you aren't far off.

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[–] KredeSeraf 32 points 1 year ago

While I could say my gut/lack of hunkiness/taste but....

I really, really don't want to attract serial killers.

[–] mogul 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About 150lbs and the fact I don't want my ballsack hanging out my jorts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

them some low hangers friendo

[–] mogul 5 points 1 year ago

Happens when you get old sonny

[–] The_Eminent_Bon 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are also the guys who gets stabbed to death with a rusty fork by a masked murderer. Im not saying wearing crop tops causes violent death but there seems to be a correlation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might be on to something

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, small sample size, but I've never worn a crop top and I haven't been brutally murdered, well, yet.

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[–] SonnyVabitch 20 points 1 year ago

Common sense

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My enormous gut, which I guarantee you don’t want to see

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[–] Surp 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] GrammatonCleric 16 points 1 year ago

I don't have shirts in kid sizes

[–] CADmonkey 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not sure my hairy mid-40's self would be well recevied.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Don't know until you try! Lol

[–] Dick_Justice 7 points 1 year ago

Imran, you've just checked off two of my green flags

[–] XbSuper 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My belly would get cold. I always wonder how women tolerate it.

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[–] thezeesystem 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truthfully it's mainly because of sexism and how people think that certain clothes = certain sex and gender or sexual orientation.

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[–] Gabu 9 points 1 year ago

The fact they look ridiculous is what's stopping me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I have gay friends that wouldn't be caught dead wearing that.

I guarantee that "style" was because a producer wanted the guys to dress like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing. This is how I dress in the summer. Except I have a dad bod and not one of those chiseled Adonis bodies so nobody appreciates it as much.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I live in a fashion-forward neighbourhood (for North America, at least (which doesn't say much)), and there were definitely straight dudes rocking this look this summer.

[–] electrogamerman 8 points 1 year ago

I do dress like that for pride parade. I should definitely do it more often.

[–] UltraMagnus0001 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

my pot belly

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Something something third spaces to dress like this and hang out at

[–] gmtom 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where the fuck would I even find a crop top in mens sizes?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn't quite work with the whole "aging sasquatch, ex power lifter/dadbod" combo I tend to have.

I tend to scare adults when I'm shirtless for some reason. I can't imagine this would be any better.

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