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14 Responses to “No Real Man Wears Something Called “Mantyhose””

1. Amused Observer says:

   January 9, 2009 at 1:38 pm

   LOL,
   Mantyhose, hard to believe, but they say in Sweden the men (I use the term loosely) pee sitting down so as not to offend the ladies with sexist behavior. So anything might be possible.

   From the link: European men have been sporting hose for several years, but the trend has been slow to catch on in the U.S

   Further on it mentions girdles and other items designed to suck and tuck things into place. With young men wearing ear rings almost standard in some places is this far off? Until such time as girdles and mantyhose become a fashion necessity I hope we can all continue to live with, what a friend of mine terms, our big tans.

   We most often don’t see eye to eye on things politic but I’m backing OW 100% on this one.
2. metrosexual says:

   January 9, 2009 at 1:49 pm

   Dont knock it til you tried it.
3. Matt says:

   January 9, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   And then there’s the manskirt, aka kilt.
4. Grandjester says:

   January 9, 2009 at 3:06 pm

   As long as it matches my Manzierre.
5. The Reality-Based Dave says:

   January 9, 2009 at 4:03 pm

   When I was in high-school (30yrs ago), some of the long distance runners wore pantyhose during a race. It was a fall sport, & in Minnesota, sometimes it was cooold. The pantyhose would help keep the legs warm, & let the legs breathe. A pair of long pants would just get sweaty & sticky a few miles into a race. This was also years before all those other fancy-schmansy fabrics (goretex, polypropelene).

   An adult wearing them now? How… prissy!
6. anotherbozo says:

   January 9, 2009 at 4:24 pm

   “With young men wearing ear rings almost standard in some places…”

   AO, your age is showing (3 digits?). Or your geography (the Aleutians? rural Montana?), or both.
7. Amused Observer says:

   January 9, 2009 at 5:10 pm

   LOL,
   Anotherbozo more or less hits a bullseye. I stand corrected. My age makes me and my peers among the last of the unadorned and uninked. It has slowly dawned on us that there just aren’t that many pirates amongst the young pups. I realize earrings are mainstream now but to a guy in his 40’s it’s always going to be a bit gay and sissylike.

   But I court enough controversy here so aside from the earrings that only girls wore in the day, surely we can get together, put aside partisan differences and draw the line at mantyhose and sitting down to pee!
8. LittleMac says:

   January 10, 2009 at 9:51 am

   I’d have a lot more respect for a guy who just puts on some regular pantyhose than for a guy who took time to seek out an identical product just because they mashed the word “man” into the name.

   If you’re secure enough in your masculinity to wear stockings in the first place, you really should be secure enough to never utter the sentence “They’re not pantyhose, they’re MANtyhose!”
9. anotherbozo says:

   January 10, 2009 at 10:45 am

   AO, I’m 66 myself. 40 y/o’s wear earrings all the time in NYC. We’re talking blue collar macho, not just effete types. Maybe your failure to acknowledge changes in (benign) socially accepted behavior is part of your conservatism. You can’t live in a big city either, I’m guessing.
10. Duros62 says:

    January 10, 2009 at 11:54 am

    As long as it matches my Manzierre.

    I thought that was called the Bro.
11. soullite says:

    January 10, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    There are actually some medical reasons for people with knee injuries to wear hosiery, it’s certainly less awkward than the alternatives as men wear pants and nobody will even know if you’re wear hose.People in the northeast who work outside will sometimes wear these instead of long-johns. The guys who repair powerline in -20 weather and freezing rain are manlier than you or I am. There is an actual market for this sort of thing, but it’s fairly small.

    Well, plus the random punk/goth/tranny kids that will buy them.
12. Amused Observer says:

    January 10, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Hey Bozo,
    Seriously, I get the earring thing. It is all around me along with a sea of ink. My peer group just missed the wave is all. We were lucky, when we finally grew up and got our shit together all we had to do was cut our hair. No fantastic comic book art or elongated ear lobes to remind us of our youthful folly, just some faded photos of skinny kids in ragged jeans and scraggly hair. LOL along with our infinite wisdom of how the world works we thought hair was an endless resource too.

    Soulite makes good points but spoils the narrative. I think Oliver is talking more about fashion than utility though.
13. bryan says:

    January 12, 2009 at 3:37 am

    The swedes sit down to use the toilet, because the products are recycled in some places. There’s this super green town I heard of doing it, but it was built on the profits from a bunch of Cellphone company shares some woman left them and had in a drawer for 40 years. Kerching!
14. Robert says:

    January 12, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    Well, heck. I’m only 47, but I’ve got no piercings and no tattoos. Never had either, in fact, and the only time a razor has touched anything south of my clavicle was when I had bilateral hernia surgery.

    And I’m probably one of the gayest men posting comments here.