So apparently, this survey was done on men's undie purchasing behavior (of all things), and found that men relegate that kind of shopping to the women in their lives. Unless they are looking for a sexual relationship, in which case they go on an underwear shopping spree.
What pisses me off about this, however, is not so much the "survey" being passed off as some sort of a scientific study, when it was done by a retailer, clearly for the purposes of targeting their advertizement.
The problem is that the results of this survey are being passed off as some sort of relationship advice - the title of the article is If he lets you buy his undies, you're The One .
So, what does that say about guys who go commando - are they pathologically afraid of committment?
Ironically, at the end of the article there is a little nod to feminism - I guess the authors are not complitely unaware of the issue of framing these "research" results the way that they do. Or am I making too big of a deal out of this?
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Apparently men's underwear purchases has been used as a measure on whether or not the economy is bouncing back/doing well or not. Which is maybe why they did this study.
So either, in a recession SO will tolerate crappy underwear on their menz....or guys forgo finding sexual relationships?
Hmmmm.....
If that's the measure we're using, I wonder how many guys' "the One" is their mom.
Hilarious. Has there been any research published on the much-more-involved and sometimes-approaching-spiritual relationship so many women have with underthings?
"So, what does that say about guys who go commando - are they pathologically afraid of commitment?"
Awesome!
i feel silly, i just bought a bunch of underwear because i recently started seeing my boyfriend.
hmm, obviously the recession doesn't affect my underwear fascination.
I think if I tried to buy underwear for my fiance he would freak out. He's very picky.
The undymancers would probably divine from that that he's gay.
I personally find this hilarious.
Any since my boyfriend doesn't wear underwear (unless you count like 3 pairs of gym/bball shorts....), does that mean he's not committed!?!?!? Ohnoes!
No it means he is committed, because he's not trying to impress anyone fancy new panties.
but he didn't go and buy new underwear (or start wearing it, for that matter.) when we started dating...does that mean he never tried to impress me?! What if i'm nothing to him. oh, now I have to over-analyze his underwear choices! drat.
So I showed this to a few friends, we had a good laugh.
That's funny and it pretty much matches up with all the guys I know.
Could it be the other way around? Once a girlfriend starts shopping for underwear and he tolerates that it's a sign of committment rather than the other way around? I mean, which girl in their right mind would go and buy underwear for someone they are not committed to??? And I doubt, a guy in his right mind would say, ahh, you're running errands, could you bring some undies, cheers. I think buying undies is some sign of territory marking for women and the men comply because a) they're in her territory and b) it's convenient while in that territory.