Am I in the wrong for wearing two inch split shorts in public when it's usually 80 to 90 degrees out in the summer? I usually run 8 - 13 miles and wear longsleeve compression shirts for heat training.
I wear underwear underneath my Split shorts with the built-in-liner yet I'll always get heckled from other guys (only guys, not girls) who make comments to my motherfvckin face about my shorts being too short.
Yet there are women who wear actual shorts that are shorter than me and no one says a gerd damn thing about it. Even if their buttocks are hanging out - if they're women and they're not fat, no one will call them out, but if it's a guy, germ damn I keep getting heckled and I know for a fact you can't see my buttocks because my split shorts are tight and wrapped around my booty.
The only problem is when I sit down on the subway the Split shorts ride up revealing my thigh and quad muscle, but that's all. There is nothing sexual about it because all you see is quads and thighs. I know everything is secure and protected safe, like a debit card's passcode.
I know I'll always be made fun of and probably laughed at for wearing these Split shorts out in public. Come on, I run to Boston in this heat and you expect me not to walk around the city when I'm cooling down or doing a recovery period after running all the way from a suburb? I'm not gonna avoid people like some sort of hermit. Fvck that!
I'm getting so frustrated about taking another heckle, it keeps building up and what am I supposed to do about that? Respond or ignore? Be passive or give them a mean stare?
Maybe I'll start wearin 3 inch split shorts and then maybe 4 or 5 inch split shorts just to not get heckled. - I'm never gonna do that, but you get the point. Runners wearing Split shorts can't win!
I will keep continuing wearing 2 inch split shorts out in public and I'm not afraid to go to a cvs or go to a clothes shopping store to look for some shirts after I finish my long run.
I just need confirmation bias or reassurance that there is nothing wrong with wearing short split shorts. I was thinking of running in basketball shorts to prove a point because it looks goofy but then I know people will always mock that too.
🙄 It's going to be 90 degrees tomorrow. Do I wear half tights now?
The Split shorts in question are Soffe's or they're called ranger panties.
Also how do you respond to people heckling you specifically for the length of your Split shorts?
I'll be damned if someone tries to start something when me when I'm running on pure hate levels.
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Wearing Split Shorts in public - how to handle Hecklers? MEN ONLY
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you're trying too hard
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You know how proud lions are when they walk right? ðŸ¦
They're majestic creatures with a glorious mane.
Sometimes I like to walk by doing mini kicks so that my quad muscles flex and jiggle a little bit every time I take a step. It's like doing dorsiflexion but it's subtle and you'll see the muscles jiggle every time you kick out your legs. It's not like marching, but I feel it helps loosen the muscles after run.
When I do that, I'm basically flexing every time I take a step and the split shorts emphasizes he muscularity. That way people are forced to look at my legs. Even if they do make the offhanded remark, they will definitely noticed the size of my vastus lateralis 👀
Also when I take the subway back I'll do ankle rolls and stretch my legs such that you'll see all the cuts and moving muscles in my calves shins and hamstrings. I'm basically saying: hey! Look at me! You don't really want to but I know you will anyway!
Everything is kept in the trunk. No strawberries are going to fall out of this basket. 📠-
Does that mean I should give in and wear what makes other men comfortable? I will not. ðŸ˜
I always get positive vibes from women but from men, they only laugh or give the condescending smile/douche grin to their mates. That's their only way of being passive aggressive. -
:I always get positive vibes from women"
You might want to get your vibometer calibrated... -
Pics?
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If you were really from Boston, you'd know it's not the f*cking subway, it's the T.
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Retailrunner wrote:
If you were really from Boston, you'd know it's not the f*cking subway, it's the T.
0/10 gtfo
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0/10 you wouldn't have made this post if you didn't care about the opinions of others
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You want me to take a picture of the Charliecard I've had since two years ago?
Monthly bus passes are 86 dollars and it was only this year when they increased prices by about twenty cents for both the train and the bus. It was 75 dollars last year.
The subway, the T, the train, it's all the same to me. I never bothered to change what I called the mbta.
I can also tell you that the boston burger company has the 4.20 deal for their burgers when it's 4:20 pm from mon to Thursday.
You're right about this post being selfish and that I don't care about the opinion of others. I only care about us runners and our community and what you guys think because I believe that some of us have had this issue too and I bet st least one of you was forced to wear 5" Split shorts when you're on your training runs because you've been shamed.
I'll tell you why I'm so determined to wear st shorts. There were two things:
Whenever I see crippled or amputated people, people in wheelchairs, I'm always reminded how lucky I am to be able to walk and run. The opinion of hecklers doesn't mean anything when I'm mobile and healthy.
Also, I remember reading older people's posts about how it's tradition to wear Split shorts and you're supposed to wear it with pride. Something about 70s and 80s nostalgia really make me appreciate the retro clothing and the attitude about running. I also tuck in my shirt.
You guys think I'm a troll, but this is what happens when you have high emotional intelligence and can read the situation.
If you guys haven't been heckled, I bet you all wear he same thing, huh: black or navy blue Nike split shorts with hairy legs.
Where's your pride in being fast?
Also I won't take pics because Asian. i know I'll be persecuted here just like Mike Rossi, the viral Boston marathon dad who cheated his way into a BQ, or that potentially suspicious runner is runs 836 miles in 9 days.
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I wear split shorts and the girls track team at my school gives me weird looks.
I'm 5'10" 118 with boa 1in split shorts -
Tell me, man, do you feel like you need to run faster than your peers to prove a point when you wear 1" Split shorts?
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10/10 trill thread, exceptional use of emo🅱is
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2/10 because I actually read the whole post. Next time you get heckled by someone driving just run on top of their car like Quenton Cassidy did.
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If I post a pic of my throngs in these shorts, would people finally take this thread seriously?
I only use emojis for this thread because it's a first world problem. Maybe I'm just weak minded (when it comes to heckles) not to starting long runs. -
I don't think the shorts are really the issue. They don't respect you, and the shorts are just the most obvious thing to make fun of.
I live in a rural college town, so I run by people ranging from backwoods blue collar types to frat bros. No one has ever heckled me. -
I mean picture of my thighs (not throngs).
No, man, it's not hecklers from cars that I worry about. It's actual people in my face like two to three meters away from me.
It's especially awkward when I'm on the subway and they heckle me, i ignore it, and then there's silence the whole way.
I ain't afraid to do a kick - not a running kick, but an actual kick to their groin! 😒 -
You're not cut out for this if you can't take a little criticism from some belligerent middle-aged man on the subway
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Respect is earned over time not given upon first impressions.
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I agree with you OP and think this post is useful in helping others, like myself, who wear splits or short running shorts know that this concern is shared. It is impossible to not care completely about how others perceive you, but the people who heckle are some combination of immature, ignorant, sexist, and jealous. Keep on, man.
