Comments on: No Real Man Wears Something Called “Mantyhose”

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:59:32 +0000

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.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:37:42 +0000

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!

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:19:49 +0000

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.

By: soullite

soullite — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:15:15 +0000

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.

By: Duros62

Duros62 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:54:18 +0000

As long as it matches my Manzierre.

I thought that was called the Bro.

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:10 +0000

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.

By: LittleMac

LittleMac — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:51:00 +0000

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!”

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:10:54 +0000

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!

By: anotherbozo

anotherbozo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:24:41 +0000

“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.

By: The Reality-Based Dave

The Reality-Based Dave — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:03:19 +0000

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!

By: Grandjester

Grandjester — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:06:30 +0000

As long as it matches my Manzierre.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:02:06 +0000

And then there’s the manskirt, aka kilt.

By: metrosexual

metrosexual — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:49:47 +0000

Dont knock it til you tried it.

By: Amused Observer

Amused Observer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:38:43 +0000

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.