Perhaps this is more accurately titled Anti-Fashion Spotting… When the weather heats up the men in my neighbourhood take their collective shirts off and it’s not a pretty sight!
Before I step out the door I do the basic check to make sure I look decent (this being slightly contrary to my university years), the goal is to make sure there are no random stains that have appeared out of nowhere, things are in place and I look like a decent and respectable woman.
Where I live there are plenty of grannies/nonnes/etc… who are more than ready to sniff and look away in disgust at a shorter skirt or tight jeans, and even the occasional evil glare at a tank top that shows off a girls figure – so what I can’t understand is how it’s so acceptable for men to take off their shirts in public! The men around here who do this are neither fit, nor young… they are old, wrinkled, overweight to obese (with most weight being centred around the middle) and have man boobs hanging out for the world to see – it’s not a pretty picture.
I must admit I have a personal pet peeve about men going shirtless, in general I want men to stay covered up – I don’t even like tank tops on men (as much as I’ve been teased for that dislike) and I’m also not about to get a fireman’s calendar to ogle half naked men. Whenever some friend sends me an e-mail of half naked attractive/fit men I roll my eyes, let’s be honest I’m just not interested.
I wish the world would just cover up when they’re sitting on their front porch, in the park or on the street… there are times and places to let it all hang out (eg. the beach, the PRIDE parade) but I don’t want to encounter a beached whale on the way home from the Subway stop!
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