Wearing Split Shorts in public - how to handle Hecklers? MEN ONLY

you're trying too hard

You know how proud lions are when they walk right? 🦁

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. 😠

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?

I'm sure you're hot!

If you were really from Boston, you'd know it's not the f*cking subway, it's the T.

0/10 gtfo

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

0/10 you wouldn't have made this post if you didn't care about the opinions of others

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.

😧

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?

10/10 trill thread, exceptional use of emo🅱is

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.

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

Respect is earned over time not given upon first impressions.

People will make up their minds about you within five seconds and choose when to heckle or not.

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.