Posted on 10/16/2025 8:53:47 AM PDT by jerod
Muslims should sue that the term “wife beater” is ruled offensive.
Canada is so woke. It’s beyond parody. Everybody I know cause these wife beaters. Women I know called these wife beaters.
So, are we to conclude the woman wearing a “wife beater” tank top is a lesbo? This is so confusing.
I hear North Kackeylackey is offended.
News day/week has to be pretty weak when we are re-debating the positive and negative aspects of the Wife Beater.
I was surprised when I first heard of “wife beater” T shirts. They are sleeveless and presumably that helps in wife beating. Frankly, I never saw much merit to the term. Why not just say sleeveless?
Maybe I’ll go with the CBC on this one.
Is gunn show offensive too?
Actually, Muslims should sue for trademark infringement, citing the Koran to establish prior use.
For some reason, my wife who tends to be pretty open minded about most things really hates it when I call these “wife beaters”. She doesn’t even want me to own any... ha ha ha. I think it stems from her first marriage and a physically abusive husband. I get it and DON’T use the term.
Perhaps it is a stereotype of a southern redneck who tends to wear these a lot beating on his girl? I don’t know, just positing. Another Hollyweird mischaracterization?
Can't leave out the faggots and trannys.
I know that I find the term offensive. There is enough crudeness in the world without making fun of men beating their wives.
Having said that, there are venues for crude language and where crude language is to be expected. I remember the old “Michael Savage” Bay Area radio show, where he would always feel he had to explain the term, as the shirt allowed a man’s arms to swing more freely as he beat his wife. Crude, but crudeness to make a point.
I guess its only a matter of time before leoTARDs are pulled….
Fifty years ago when I first heard the name, I asked my Mom why they called it that. She told me the name comes from a steriotype of drunken men in poverty regions like the Appalachia. Of course, my parents being hard working highly educated society types, they never associated or knew anything about rural/country life.
I believe the term originated from “reality” tv cop shows.
Often calls for domestic disturbances featured a male in a tattered & stained tank top.
FINE. “Baby beater”
I believe “Wife beater” is a jest at those who wear the style, not a functional description.
How old are you? A certain macho angry type of guy became passively associated with them because of movies, news films and to be honest real life experience. If you were born much after the fifties you may not have seen this as much. I knew exactly what was being referred to the first time I heard the term as a teen in the seventies. I was surprised a few years ago coming across the term that it was still in use. I wondered if younger people would even know what it meant as the imagery that first prompter the use wasn’t as common any longer.
muslims should protest that white people are culturally appropriating their beating tradition!
“I believe the term originated from “reality” tv cop shows.“
Yup that was a biggie. Central casting seem to love those shirts for their angry loudmouths.
‘Wokeness’ is offensive.
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