Letters to the Editor
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I think I speak for a lot women when I say...
...Eeeeeeeeeeew!!
Guys give you WAY too much 411 when they wear a speedo.
There is a reason that speedos--and guys who wear them--are the butt (you'll excuse the expression) of so many snarky jokes. There is nothing sleazier on the beach than a guy parading around in a spandex bandaid, with his buttcrack winking at you as he sashays by. And there is nothing hotter than a guy with a nice, normal-looking body wearing baggy shorts, happy and casual, not needing to prove anything. Sort of the anti-preener.
And if the author looks so hot in his speedo, then why do they have a stock photo accompanying the article instead of a shot of the author? (And the stock photo, you might notice, features one of the more modest speedos.) I mean, it's cute that his wife thinks he looks so fantastic, but she could well be the only one.
As for me, give me a cute guy in cutoffs or baggy trunks. I'd much rather see pantlegs flapping in the breeze than a few other things I could think of.
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Blah, blah, woof, woof...
Here's a thought: Forget the Speedos and the Board Shorts! During the 1990s, I attended a health club that for about 30 years had gender-specific swimming pool access. All the older men there swam in the buff. Having been raised in a Mennonite sort of neighborhood, I found this very disconcerting at first, but eventually I lost the swim trunks and found it all rather---liberating.
Sure, the younger guys wore trunks at first, when doing their laps, but eventually some of them got over their insecurities. Others who couldn't handle it generally stayed away. And it didn't matter if you were a twink goddess or the 260-lb. county judge.
When the pool went co-ed in the 2000s, we lost the choice, which was sad...because doing competitive laps in the buff was certainly more natural.
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What...
...is a twink goddess?
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A Twink
is a slender, usually somewhat effeminiate gay man. The direct opposite of a bear.
The po-faced disgust at Salon running a puff-piece is really funny. "How dare they compromise the Pravada-like solemnity of this site!" Please.
But I also find the antagonism towards Speedos funny, too. Especially those people who want to tell you "what most people think." Too much.
There is no such thing as absolute good or bad fashion. It's all taste, and it all changes. I remember in the early 90's in a technical theater class, the subject got off props and sets and onto costumes, and then onto our teacher saying the fashions of past decades, no matter how ridiculed, eventually come back into style. "But not the 70's! They can't possibly come back!" some girl insisted. "They were horrible."
And then what happened?
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ALL THE NEGATIVE RESPONSES PROVE ONE THING
American women hate most men.
and what else COULD it be?
I have known women that should have a potato sack on their body sashaying down the beach oblivious to how they look. Yet men crumble under female disparagement and wear their stupid baggy shorts- a sign of OBEDIENCE I guess.
I have also known men whose legs and bodies were a lot more attractive than many women's and who would look great in a skintight outfit or some sort.
but again, ugly women can show off their ugliness. men, somewhat good looking or not, have to hide their bodies from women.
and you people tell me MEN rule?
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All the negative responses prove one thing...
Heterosexual men will dress in such a way that they attract--or at least not repel--women. If women like men in baggy shorts, most men will wear baggy shorts. No wicked feminazi conspiracy here. Women dress to attract men, men dress to attract women. You can buck this if you want, but don't expect to get a date or a life partner.
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It takes maturity to overcome Speedo prejudice.
If you are brought up with Speedo prejudice it takes maturity, and some times an opportunistic nudge, to get you to re-evaluate your irrational beliefs.
I see that some people commented that Speedo’s are ok for pool swimming, but not for catching a sun tan at the beach. Why the heck not? Girls wear the bikini of their choice, why can’t men?
The mark of the thinking man is to challenge the assumptions foisted on him by society and others. To think things through for him self. If it’s a good tan he is after, maybe he will hit the beach in a thong, after all, the band of white midriff left by board shorts is not attractive.
It looks like men are becoming less paranoid about being labeled gay or communist, just because of what they chouse to wear.
We are starting to see men more confident in their own bodies and not ashamed to show them off a little. Now that people know that a guy in spandex is not a gay but a bicyclist or tri athlete. The guy in a Speedo is not weak in the wrist, but wicked fast in the water.
You may think that any man in Speedos is showing off. Probably not, but even if he is, what business is that of yours?
People drive flash cars, get fancy houses and wear expensive cloths with the designers logos embroidered on them, just so you know just how much they spent. All this to make you believe they are some how better people. At least with an unclothed body there is a certain honesty. It’s not how much money you have but how much care you have taken, with the one body gifted you by god: For with out it you are no one.
When you see a man in a Speedo, you know it’s some one with self confidence, and in America a lot of courage. Confidence and courage are very attractive to women.
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PRECISELY
Heterosexual men will dress in such a way that they attract--or at least not repel--women. If women like men in baggy shorts, most men will wear baggy shorts. No wicked feminazi conspiracy here. Women dress to attract men, men dress to attract women. You can buck this if you want, but don't expect to get a date or a life partner.
but my point is exactly that most American women are narrow minded pigs who disallow men the same latitude they themselves have.
but the women are never called on it because men are too wimpy to challenge the women, hoping to get free sex instead by appeasing the women.