I’ve actually noticed there are about 3 ways to take off a t-shirt.
Grab at the bottom and pull up in one smooth motion, which turns it inside out. This is, if I may stereotype, the way women use most of the time.
Grab the back of the collar and pull off in one smooth motion. I associate this with gay men, or men trying to be smooth and sexy.
Pull your arms through the sleeves one at a time so that they’re both completely inside the shirt. Wiggle your way out ungracefully. This is definitely a much more “guy” method than the other two.
The “grab at the bottom” has a couple of variants, and you can also tug at the front or sides of the collar. Women often do that crossed arms thing that I don’t get. You can also tug from the bottom without crossing your arms, placing the elbow of your dominant hand against your body and bending up the bottom of the shirt so it passes over your forearm almost immediately, making it easier to manipulate from the inside. Also ungraceful. I do this sometimes, and grab the collar sometimes (by the front, not the back). Balances stretching out the bottom of the t-shirt with stretching out the collar.
I think the “crossed arms” variant is overwhelmingly female. I’ve never seen a guy do it.
Okay, I think I can respond to this without getting all defensive now.
I pull off my (pull-on) shirts this way, but it’s a simple matter of pragmatics: having an above-average size noggin, I have to do it this way to get the neckhole of the shirt stretched out a little so my head can get through it. Pulling up from the bottom invariably leads to the shirt trying to take most of my face with it.
I’m a little confused here. I have a rather large nogging as well and that makes no sense to me.
I just tried it and I take off T-shirts by grabbing the shirt on the front of the collar with two hands and pulling straight up across my face. Why would you contort yourself and grab the back of the collar? Wouldn’t that run the front side of the collar accross your face?
I’m a female and I usually use the last method, then the pull off by the collar method and rarely do I use the “girly method”. I only use that method if I’m really hot, tired and just want to get the shirt off and don’t care about getting the shirt inside out.
As for the other things I also use the “guy method” on most, except maybe looking at the sky. I only use the girly method for looking at my fingernails if I just gave myself a manicure.
Nope. Here’s how I do it, from memory (I’m at work, so I can’t exactly follow along): Reach up to back of collar with one hand. Pull collar band up and over head, it stretches and catches under my chin, sort of pivoting around my head. Keep pulling until my head clears the back of the shirt. Then out comes whichever arm isn’t doing the pulling, then the shirt slides down the remaining arm to the hand which tosses it into the hamper.
I take off shirts by pulling one arm out of the sleeve and out the bottom of the shirt, and using that to pull it over my head and off the other arm. I think I unconsciously developed that technique because it involves the least amount of “arms pinned to side” or “shirt blocking face” time.
How I look at my nails depends on whether I’m checking for dirt or checking my polish. Likewise with the shoes, depending on whether I think I may have stepped in something innocuous or whether I think I stepped in dog poo (which I wouldn’t want to get near my hands or my pants). And the sky – is it daylight, with the sun overhead? Or would I be looking at a sunset, or stars?
I remember the nail thing from when I was a kid in the late '50s-early '60s. It was a test for teh gay, and *nobody *(especially us fags) would get caught looking at his fingers the wrong way.
T-shirt: Lift up the *front *of the collar til it gets caught on the forehead, then lift the rest from the back.
Before this thread, I never understood why my 21-years-ago ex’s t-shirt were always inside-out when I did the laundry.
Good thought question, Spectre.
I guess I’m all boy. “Looking at the sky” would entail glancing up (without moving my head) while keeping the other guy in view to guard against aforementioned suckerpunches.
For t-shirts, I put one hand to my other wrist under the shirt, yank off that arm, then use my free arm to pull the shirt over my head and other arm at the same time. I do it real fast; I had to go get a t-shirt and do this in slomo to figure out exactly what my methodology was.
Eye of the beholder, but thank you for the porn music.
Now, that I see other explanations I think I actually do the “pull one arm inside the shirt first” thing.
IME, the only people that use the first half of this method are women who subsequently remove their bras without exposing themselves. There’s really no other reason to go to this much trouble to take off a shirt.
I know I’ve led a sheltered life, but I must say I never knew how many different ways there were to take off a T-shirt.
So far we have:
1)Both arms inside, pull off from top front. (the way I do it).
2)One arm inside, pull off from top front.
3)No arms inside, one-handed pull off from back of neck and work the way up and over.
4)No arms inside, two-handed pull off from back of neck
5)No arms inside, pull from bottom of t-shirt up and over. AKA “the sexy way.”
Busted! If you put your shirts directly in the hamper while getting undressed, your Guy Status may be in peril. Aren’t you supposed to get yelled at for leaving it on the floor first? It’s in the manual somewhere.
I actually sort of wad it up in that hand, then drop-kick it into the hamper. If you make a sport out of it, even if it’s a sport you don’t care for, doesn’t that re-affirm Guy Status?
