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Mantyhose. We're serious.

by Annie Scott (Subscribe to Annie Scott's posts)
Posted Jul 28th 2008 at 4:27PM  
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All right, men. Guess what you didn't know you needed? Pantyhose.

Here at right we have a handsome gentleman wearing a lovely dove-gray under his jeans. Pantyhose under pants, you ask? Well, what do you want him to wear, a skirt? What would his mother say?

We have a feeling she's already said it.

From the e-MANcipate website:
"e-MANcipate is a project to accelerate the acceptance of male pantyhose as a regular clothing item."

The website includes helpful resources like manfacturers and mantyhose news, as well as tips like "How to put on your male pantyhose without destroying it??" They claim that wearing pantyhose promotes circulation and even improves athletic performance! Um. . .WTF and As If, respectively.

Unless you're playing Robin Hood or pretending to be Louis XIV (like you do), we think maybe you should pass this trend up in favor of, you know, looking hot. But to each his own, right? Whatever. We don't care what you do on weekends, we're just saying it's not in fashion. Thanks random-good-stuff.com for the tip, or should we say, the warning.
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alicia, 7-29-2008, 8:15PM

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alicia

Come on, please make it stop.

Alicia
http://todaystyle.today.com/

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b81353, 7-29-2008, 9:46PM

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b81353

OMG. This is really weird. If my boyfriend decides to wear them, does he have to shave his legs???

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laura Keen, 7-31-2008, 9:12AM

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laura Keen

LOL!!!

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Dave, 8-02-2008, 2:43AM

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Dave

No, it's NOT weird, b81353. What's REALLY weird is YOU, being a FEMALE, thinking it's "weird" on guys and not finding it sexy, like you SHOULD. Are you possibly afraid of your own lesbian tendencies or something? If you were really secure in your own femininity, you wouldn't have a problem with guys wearing this. Do YOU ever wear jeans and a baseball cap? A lot of girls do, and that's very MASCULINE attire. So how come you women are allowed to "cross-dress" and no one considers that "weird", but we men are not? If you wear jeans and a baseball cap, does your boyfriend have a problem with YOU wearing that?? Does HE freak out and consider YOU "real weird"?? Maybe he WILL decide to wear Mantyhose, and he will shave his legs. I am a guy and I wear them, and I shave MY legs, AND, I wear skirts. Women, if they're truly secure in their femininity, find it sexy!!

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Mark, 7-30-2008, 4:29AM

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In regards to mantyhose........"Great Option" I have severe circulatory problems in my legs and wear the full leg Ted stockings. They are anti-embolism stocking to promote circulation making it easier for the blood to get back to the heart, as they are compression stocking. Well, its difficult to keep them up on your leg all the time. I would try mantyhose if they had different types of compression. I have tried many things to hold them up, like a safety pin. It opened up walking once and stuck you know where, as they were hooked to my underwear. I have put runners in them with clamps from a cheap store that you use for ironing boards and runners galore, the teds were ruined. Just to mention if you go to bend down, the clamps I was doing in the bathroom, unfortunetly I hurried and the clamp had the pubic hair. Once the teds get runners they are done $75.00 gone. Ladies and some gentleman their are a lot of things men do that some might think is vain or feminine. Like some men shave their pubic area for comfort and the use of prophylactics.
Just don't shoot the idea down as it is helpful to some of us. If we have special pouched front underwear on for comfort as it positions the junk in the trunk, things Mom does not know about as we grow or tell us. I know I have done some things to myself that my significant other wanted. These mantyhose I think would be a great idea if they could make them cost effective with some degree of compression. I use to color my hair before the color for men hair line, now its just excepted. Just another way for people to look at it. Will it be a fad or a fashion?

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watdafuk, 7-30-2008, 10:05PM

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watdafuk

try a garter belt ya might like it.

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Steven Parker, 7-31-2008, 1:47PM

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Steven Parker

TOO MUCH INFORMATION! GAGA ME WITH A SPOON!

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Annie Scott, 7-30-2008, 9:31AM

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Annie Scott

You love it, Alicia.

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Annie Scott, 7-30-2008, 10:09AM

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Mark, I'm not hatin' on your medical issues, I'm just saying it's not in fashion. Neither was a headgear when I was in junior high. So I wore it, but not to the dance. That's all.

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Dave, 8-01-2008, 2:31AM

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Annie Scott, you have to understand that you are being unbelievably SEXIST here. First of all, WHO are YOU as a WOMAN to declare what IS, and IS NOT, in fashion for us men?? I'm sure you, (like most women), think it's perfectly fine to wear PANTS and MEN'S clothes anytime YOU want, and you women are always demanding equality with us men, so WHY IS IT that you don't want us men to have equality with you? You need to acknowledge that if you women can wear pants then we men can wear skirts and pantyhose - you seem to have a big problem with the idea of us men wearing skirts, too. Can anyone say "FEMALE CHAUVINIST SOW"??

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Calypsis4, 7-30-2008, 10:58PM

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SHould this be a surprise. I have been watching men become more and more effeminite since the 1960's when they began to let their hair grow long and style it like the ladies. That eventually led to earrings, carrying purses, visiting beauty shops, ad nauseum.

This is the generation of the wimps.

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Michelle, 7-31-2008, 12:55AM

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Michelle

Thank you, so true...

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Inomaha, 8-05-2008, 12:24PM

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Inomaha

Calypsis4- Before you claim that the feminization of men started in the recent history i.e. 60's longhair and such...look back at the 1700's and the 1600's, men of power wore lace at the chin (precurser to ties), powdered wigs, and the topic of choice here- stockings! FYI

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laura Keen, 7-31-2008, 9:11AM

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Wow! I get guyliner, but the irony is that most women that had to wear pantyhose 20 years ago with suits in the workplace before corporate casual became the norm, hated on pantyhose-they rip often just trying to get them on, plus they itch and were just a pain n the ass. That being said, if men wish to go for it, no harm....until of course their granchildren roll with laughter in 35 years.

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Dave, 8-01-2008, 2:55AM

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That's a sexist comment, Laura Keen. Perhaps 35 years from now our grandchildren will be more open-minded and pantyhose for us men will be the accepted norm, regardless of what the women of today have to say about it. Perhaps then, our grandchildren will instead be looking back and laughing at the attitudes of right-wing bigots like Laura Keen and Annie Scott.

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Annie Scott, 7-31-2008, 9:56AM

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To be fair, what will our grandchildren think of like HALF the things we wear, right? I should blog about that. Good idea, Laura.

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laura Keen, 8-01-2008, 8:59AM

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Sorry to get your name dragged in on Dave's comment to me...He is clearly a sensitive writer who doesn't jump to stereotypical conclusions and treats all on the board with deep respect. I so love him for that, agreed?

Yes, how will we explain to even ourselves in 35 years why or how the following occured:
1. Crocs
2. Pajama bottoms worn as pants
3. Shrug sweaters

Everyone...what else can we add that will make us cringe to ourselves....I was guily of a poncho purchase a few years back that I was dumbass enough to wear in Chistmas photo's, that already look bad....

Laura

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el, 7-31-2008, 11:27AM

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el

Calypsis4, you really need to check History. Men were wearing wigs, growing and styling their long tresses, even going so far as powdering their hair and their wigs, wearing ruffles, silk, and stockings for hundreds of years! The American Revolution was full of men and boys with long hair, ponytails, knickers and tights, along with boots with pretty,shiny metal buckles. Even Paul Revere wore a ponytail. So did Ben Franklin. Oh, and can't forget the perfumes MEN wore to disguise the scent of unwashed dirty sweaty bodies. Up until the latter end of the 19th century, the majority of women, were plain, hair in buns or braids wrapped around their heads, plain clothes suitable for hard work ( washing, cleaning, cooking, gardening, farming, child care, etc.), little or no jewelry, or make up, attempting to not draw attention to themselves and be accused of harlotry or immorality. Maybe you should have payed more attention in school instead of blowing kisses and flashing the boys. Just an observation.

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Dave, 8-01-2008, 2:56AM

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It's not the generation of "the wimps", it's the generation of the real men, and we real men have the right to wear our hair long and there is nothing "effeminate" about that, OR about carrying purses, or wearing earrings, or makeup or pantyhose. You women have been wearing pants and becoming butch dykes since the 1960s too. Calypsis4 and Annie Scott and their attitudes are the very reason I, as a long-haired male, have to endure constant harassment and prejudice, mainly from women, and have to live in fear, every time I go out on the street. Calypsis4, you sure sound like a real woman, and that isn't saying much, since as a sex, women are real wimps. Judging by the comments and prejudice displayed by Calypsis4, Annie Scott and all the other female posters here, women are big ones to TALK about wanting equality between the sexes, but they don't want us men to have equality with them. Talk about hypocrisy!

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Mark, 8-01-2008, 9:46AM

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I tried pantyhose. I love the way they feel! Tried Sheer Energy. Yes, I shaved my legs. Wore them with shorts one time, just to see what it would be like. I was scared sh*tless. Nobody even noticed.

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