...can we stop calling them that ? (speaking of white tank tops)

I am always taken aback when I hear the term...especially when my daughters say it. And then I said it the other day and surprised myself.

It's so wrong to use that term so loosely.

Why?

I always found that not right

REDFEATHERS said:

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REDFEATHERS said:

Yes why? Maybe it is a language thing but here if somebody drives a truck we call him a truck driver, if somebody if plays a guitar we call him a guitar player ..... do you know what I mean?

Dennisnet said:

But it's the idea of referring to a piece of clothing as a Wife Beater.
Like the term means nothing. Like it's funny or light.

fleshofyourflesh said:

Why do they call it that?

In jersey, we called them ginny t's.

I wear them all the time also.

REDFEATHERS said:

It's a stereotype....that a man who beats his wife sits around in a white tank top all day...

jerseykrs said:

Guinea T's ?
As in Italian ?

fleshofyourflesh said:

yes, cause all the italians (me being one of them) always wore them.

jerseykrs said:

I wear them, too.
I have one on now, in fact.
I love wife beaters .....now see how wrong that sounds ?!

Dennisnet said:

It makes sense.
But you don't have to drive a truck to be a truck driver

PANDURITO said:

And you don't have to go to Taco Bell to enjoy a PANDURITO.

I think most of us in Britain were about this thread - I wanted to say "why?" like Red did
... I still don't know what you're all talking about apart from it being something you wear. To us a wife beater is just that.

fleshofyourflesh said:

yes i see what you mean.

This, my Darlings, is a wife beater

fleshofyourflesh said:

PANDURITO said:

PANDURITO said:

You dont have to be cool to rule my world

JoeyMFinCoco said:

I actually find this pic offensive.

It's not meant to glorify domestic abuse, it's just a phrase that's become common vernacular. And it's so specific a shirt type (white, tank top, usually ribbed cotton material) I don't know another more descriptive word that will mean exactly that type of shirt. It's just a wife-beater. eh. doesn't bother me.

CarrieMpls said:

well, there's always what my (italian) ex-boyfriend called 'em..."guido tees".

We don't have wife beaters in the UK

fleshofyourflesh said:

Thankyou ... I can't see it though

Reincarnate said:

Me either.
He was there earlier.
Probably got arrested.

unbelievable

We dont call them that here but I can tell you I dont like the term.

bkw said:

do you think they are like chesty bonds? or more like a cut-off t-shirt?