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Originally posted by brie:
zoinks, kids, it's just underwear!

damn! i've never seen so many people get so upset over something as silly as undies!!!

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IS it just underwear?

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Originally posted by Jessa33:

Okay, if a girl is dumping you over your underwear, she needs a life. It really shouldn't be a deal breaker.

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Originally posted by Jessa33:

How many hours does anyone spend looking at someone else's underwear?

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In my experience, some women delight in a man's underwear.

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Originally posted by Nihilisa:
I'd say they'd be more attractive if they weren't white, but men have a hard time pulling off purple tighties.

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Purple tighties! Now THAT'S HOT! That was one of my high school colors. Gonna hunt me down a pair 'o them suckas right now! That should drive her bonkers.

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Originally posted by Nihilisa:
Personally, when I see a man in tighty whiteys, I think, "god, I feel like I'm sleeping with a ten year old. I hope he doesn't want me to pack his lunch now."

[...]So, I just try to avert my eyes until he either takes them off, or puts on some jeans.

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Originally posted by eac:
oh, lordy...

TWM, i'm right up there with ErikZ. make a choice, and move on. i find it fascinting (in a scary way) that you're adamant you love this woman, you rarely if ever change your opinion, and you're quite attached to your TWs - but for some reason, you're conducting a public poll on opinions, as if that will make a difference. seriously - if 50 women here said we're disgusted beyond belief by TWs, would you stop wearing them? why would our opinions be more important than the opinion of the woman you love, or your own opinion?

good god. who knew that underwear was a burning philosophical morass?

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by eac:
[b]oh, lordy...

TWM, i'm right up there with ErikZ. make a choice, and move on. i find it fascinting (in a scary way) that you're adamant you love this woman, you rarely if ever change your opinion, and you're quite attached to your TWs - but for some reason, you're conducting a public poll on opinions, as if that will make a difference. seriously - if 50 women here said we're disgusted beyond belief by TWs, would you stop wearing them? why would our opinions be more important than the opinion of the woman you love, or your own opinion?

good god. who knew that underwear was a burning philosophical morass?

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan: More than anything, I think I want to understand why...

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I at least admire you for having the balls to tell us how proud you are of wearing the underwear that chicks gag at the sight of and most guys give up before their voices change.

But it sounds like at this point you're really NOT all that sure this is the underwear for you. You want to make the transition from boxers to briefs, as every guy at some point should, and you're just looking for a little encouragement. Or should I say a LOT of encouragement? If you're extra-sensitive, why don't you invest in some better-quality boxers, made of softer cotton? For workouts try some different brands of boxer briefs. They don't all fit the same. Make sure the ones you get for workouts are tight enough where it counts. Get a smaller size for more support. Also, when wearing boxers, practice moving with better coordination so you don't hurt yourself. It's a skill you have to LEARN.

Ladies: harsh on this guy's huggies! Yeah, he's got a bad-ass attitude, but I think basically he's just begging you to tell him what he already knows but hasn't managed to accept--YET: tighty whities are for little boys and dorks. Women hate them.

Guys: if any other of you still wear tighty whities, how about taking the boxer challenge along with TightyWhityMan? Give him the moral support he needs to have the enjoyment of hanging loose and free, as every adult male should.

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Originally posted by PackAnimal:
Guys: if any other of you still wear tighty whities, how about taking the boxer challenge along with TightyWhityMan? Give him the moral support he needs to have the enjoyment of hanging loose and free, as every adult male should.

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Ummm, no. I don't really care for that floppy feeling at all. Sometimes I'll go commando, but it's rare. I like support for the boys...no other way to say it.

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Originally posted by PackAnimal:
Guys: if any other of you still wear tighty whities, how about taking the boxer challenge along with TightyWhityMan? Give him the moral support he needs to have the enjoyment of hanging loose and free, as every adult male should.

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Originally posted by tixin:

as for the hygiend skid marks?...it's all about farts...you can triple wipe and things are cool, but once you start laying out some beefy air nuggets, things get cruddy.

and what do I prefer? bikini's...string bikinis (see walmart)...and an occasional male specific thong (has a pocket/pouch for the jewels). why? cause if a chick can feel sexy, and whereing this stuff makes ME feel sexy, I'm gonna do it. If a mate asked me to wear silk boxers over my head, I'd do it for her, so long as I was aloud to go casual anyway I liked.

thanks....(and the tighywhite freak is VERY scary)

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well, at least this week.

um, just for my own .02 worth, i like briefs and boxers. I enjoy the level of support from briefs when i go dancing or running or whatever (its, i'm assuming, like a bra for women, keeps all the extra bits from bouncing around painfully) but mine are never ever white. probably doesn't help much, but i do go for colours. the rest of the time i either wear boxers or nothing.

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Originally posted by ChristopherTheOne:
Ummm, no. I don't really care for that floppy feeling at all. Sometimes I'll go commando, but it's rare. I like support for the boys...no other way to say it.

As I've said before, though, the briefs are only for the gym (or when I need to do laundry), and even then, they aren't white. 90% of the time, boxer briefs are the selection.

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:
Do you work for an underwear company?

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:
IS it just underwear?

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Ummm...yeah.
And since you seem to be taking some kind of sick survey, count me in as a boxer girl. I think you should give up.

As for me, my drawer has Boxers, Briefs and Boxer Briefs in them, I just pull one out at random each morning.

I finally graduated college last Saturday.
I'm a sort of recluse. I'm working on getting better but new crowds or situations that are not under my control still freak me out.
So there I was, getting all tense and freaky about having to do the ceremony, stuffed in a small hot room with 500 other graduates when I thought about TightyWhityMan. That despite all the pressure I was putting myself under, the whole thing just wasn't that important. Then I laughed and relaxed. Well, not completely relaxed, but it sure did knock it down a few notches.

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Originally posted by PackAnimal:
You want to make the transition from boxers to briefs, as every guy at some point should, and you're just looking for a little encouragement.

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None of the above.

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Originally posted by pamie:
How did I not see this thread until now?

TWM, when you want to reply to people, please try and make all of your replies in one post. Thanks.

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:

Jessifer (May 14), are you saying that on the right guy, tighty whities are actually good?

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yes, altho i've only ever seen one guy they looked good on. not that i see all that many guys in tighty whities. *ahem*

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Originally posted by Beatrice:
Mmmm.....Boxer briefs....drool...

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:

What about the phrase "Mmmm.....Tighty whities....drool..."? Do any of the women here go along with that?
Jessifer, what exactly do you mean by "*ahem*"? Are you saying that tighty whities are not generally the underwear most men choose to wear? Women at times are very subtle communicators, but at times this subtlety verges on inscrutability.

[This message has been edited by TightyWhityMan (edited May 18, 2001).]

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Aw geez, come on TWM, you're freakin' ME out here, and I don't easily freak.

Anyway, are you and your girlfriend still together? If not, why do you still care about this topic?

Anyway... something I don't get is why ladies associate white with childish... wouldn't colored briefs be childisher ( )?

My word.

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:
I do respect female opinion, but not the imperious whim of one quirky girlfriend.

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This thread cracks me up.

I can't say that I have a large preference for any type of underwear on a man, mostly because the men I know don't spend a large amount of time lounging in them so my impressions are fleeting.

I can venture to say though, that briefs seem less attractive and more childish precisely because they are the underwear boys grow up wearing. This means lots of impressions, in my head at least, of little boys in white briefs. Seeing it large scale (so to speak) is rather like seeing grown up women in schoolgirl uniforms, or some similar little girl garb. And while this can be sexy in its own way, it's more by implicating a contrast of the grown up with the child, and in the case of schoolgirl uniforms, a little bit of a fetish as far as I have heard. So, I would assume it would take an adjustment to re-think the briefs as men's, rather than boy's underwear. Or, you could move to boxers or boxer briefs. It's the same for women, really. You think little girls wear the underwear grown women wear? I think Victoria's Secret is almost a rite of passage nowadays. But that could just have been me and my friends.

Anyway, the quote above alarmed me a little. It seems that your girlfriend's opinion should matter more than what 1,000 other women say, precisely because she is your girlfriend. And it doesn't seem right to call her opinion an "imperious whim". It seems to me that no matter how strange a request you think your girlfriend is making, if she feels that strongly about it, it should be treated with respect. Even if a million other people don't think that way, it's still a true feeling she has and a million other people won't discredit that. It's like saying a thousand other people don't like sushi, so you're not going to have it even though I like it.

And try to put this around on you. How would you feel if you hated something about her that she felt strongly about and refused to change? Say it was seeing an old boyfriend who was now a friend, but you thought he was a little too attached still. How would you feel if she said none of her other friends thought that, so she was ignoring your "imperious whim"?

I'm not saying that underwear is on the same level as exes, but that the opinion is. Obviously both of you have strong feelings about underwear, so that's where it goes in this case. But how you treat that opinion each of you have about the underwear should really be the focus IMHO, not the connotations behind different types of underwear, though it's been fun to read about.

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Originally posted by TightyWhityMan:
PackAnimal (May 15), are you actually my girlfriend, incognito, pretending to be a more-or-less-friendly-advice-giving guy, in order to dissuade me from wearing the underwear I know to be superior to any other kind?[/B]

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