When I was in highschool, I told one of my best guy friends that he was skinny. Because he was. Let's just say his ankle/calf was about the same girth as my wrist/forearm. Anyway, he was offended. I didn't understand it at first, but he explained that guys don't like to be called "skinny". "Toned", "muscular", "fit", "athletic", these were all acceptable terms. But skinny? That is only a compliment if you're saying it to a GIRL. woops. Lesson learned!
Fast forward 12 years: I was walking up the escalator yesterday when I looked up and there was this super skinny dude in front of me, wearing life-threateningly constricting jeans. And it baffled me, because when did being a skinny guy and wearing supertight clothes to display said skinniness become desirable?
No offense to skinny dudes. I know some of them really can't help it. I'm not saying all you skinny-jeans-wearing men out there are "wrong" for preferring to spend 10 minutes trying to wiggle your wallet out of your back pocket, I just don't know when the transition was made from, "Don't call me skinny, it's emasculating," to, "I want to wear my girlfriends jeans in public."
Now, some guys have it right. You can wear these stylish skinny jeans without looking like a sausage stuffed into its casing from the hips down. My concern is really only for the men out there who look like they're cutting off the blood supply to the lower half of their body. Nobody should have to bear witness to such a public display of self mutilation.
Generally, it's the younger gents who prefer to be the tightpants partygoers. Maybe it's just one of those things where times are changing, and I just don't get it because I'm the kooky older person. But let's be honest. 27 isn't that old. I just don't want to see the outline of your wrinklebeast when you walk past me in a restaurant. Is that so much to ask?
27 is pretty old.
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