The rest of the world thinks it's a little strange.
When did it start? Is it a rite of passage?
The rest of the world thinks it's a little strange.
When did it start? Is it a rite of passage?
BiCurious wrote:
The rest of the world thinks it's a little strange.
When did it start? Is it a rite of passage?
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North America thinks the rest of the World is strange. And it is.
It starts when the weather gets warm or whenever it is unseasonably warm. It is a rite of passage to becoming comfortable with your body.
Your Welcome.
If it was 27 degrees C with 70% humidity in the UK every summer you'd be taking your shirts off too.
Because most of them are massively insecure.
If you were a non-lesbian normal lady, you would be drooling to see me without my shirt. Some guys too!!!
elmore345 wrote:
Because most of them are massively insecure.
He said shirts off, not full upper body art.
One word sums it up:
FREEDOM!!!!!!
For me:
1. It helps your body regulate its temperature through evaporation (doesn't work as well when you're wearing a shirt).
2. When it's raining your shirt just gets soaked, which isn't terribly comfortable.
3. It isn't totally comfortable to run in a sweat-soaked shirt either.
So, comfort and temperature control.
As a feminist man, I would never run with my shirt off. Not saying guys shouldn't run shirtless, just not something I would do.
Since when? North Americans have traditionally been the bashful ones when it comes to nudity.
I moved from germany to the us in HS and ran xc. I remember thinking this was so odd. then I started doing it and remember thinking why haven't I been doing this all along? now when im back in germany people look at me funny when i run shirtless. whatever.
One thing I noticed in europe is dudes running on polo shirts. this is your inverse corollary over there, especially in the UK. polos are borderline dressy in the US. to go running in one is feels like insinuating you have so much money you can exercise in dress clothes.
das wrote:
As a feminist man, I would never run with my shirt off. Not saying guys shouldn't run shirtless, just not something I would do.
What the heck is a feminist man??? A gay man supporting lesbos?
Polly P wrote:
What the heck is a feminist man??? A man supporting equal rights for women?
I fixed it for you.
das wrote:
Polly P wrote:What the heck is a feminist man??? A man supporting equal rights for women?
I fixed it for you.
Equal rights or superior rights? They have equal rights already.
To the shirtless runners, if you are more comfortable and faster shirtless, why don't you race shirtless?
Polly P wrote:
Equal rights or superior rights? They have equal rights already.
They clearly don't, seeing as they're not allowed to run topless like men are.
I don't take my shirt off. The women along my route strip it off of me.
Funny, I never thought this was strange at all to anyone.
Phil Fondacaro wrote:
To the shirtless runners, if you are more comfortable and faster shirtless, why don't you race shirtless?
I too thought about this. Through other sports I absorbed the "practice how you play" idea, so while running shirtless feels great, unless you race shirtless it has its flaws from that standpoint. Not that singlets are stifling or cumbersome, but I didn't want race day to be the first day I wore said singlet in months. I have always no matter how warm tried to stay in a singlet, at least on key days (workouts, race simulation, long run)
Phil Fondacaro wrote:
To the shirtless runners, if you are more comfortable and faster shirtless, why don't you race shirtless?
Because pinning the race bib on hurts like a mofo.
You can pin it on your shorts of course but then you look like sandwich board sign in a hurricane.