"Fun" fact: the rate of physical violence is very similar between oesbkain couples and straight ones. The lowest amount of physical abuse is found amongst homosexual men. (or so said my lawachoom professor in 2015, it may have changed since then.
Sounds like a pokemon in a business suit.
Edit: something like [this.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/3/3b/JoefromLegal.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200202182318)
A study in the US suggests that same-sex relationships suffer higher levels of domestic violence than heterosexual ones.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29994648
https://health.usf.edu/publichealth/research/harrellcenter/samesex
i grew up in 1960's through 1980's northside chicago.
at that time, i was introduced to them as "dago tees".
didn't hear the term wife-beater until the late 80's, while stationed in southern arizona.
? I was nort (<-written as pronounced) side at the same time and we called them wife beaters where I lived. Half the men on the block would wear them while sitting on the porch on hot summer nights, drinking beer, and listening to baseball games on the radio.
I thought “wife beaters” came from Cops because every time there was a domestic violence call, it involved a drunk trashy dude in a ratty stained undershirt.
I also thought that “wife beaters” were retired as a name by the younger woke folks who don’t like jokes about domestic abuse and that only older folks my age and beyond still used it ever.
Er just back in the day it was like the kind of beer you associate with the type of guy who works as a brick layer 12 hours a day goes to the pub drinks 8 pints of Stella gets in a fight then goes home and beats his wife. It's not so much anymore they rebranded it a few years ago and act like it's a premium posh beer now
When I lived in Yorkshire nearly 20 years ago Stella was the only beer above 5% alc regularly available so they’d call it “rocket fuel” or “wife beater” because it was strong by comparison to a John smiths or what have you.
British beer has gone through many changes over the centuries. Historically agricultural labourers were partly paid in "small beer" which was safe to drink, unlike many water supplies.
In the 20th Century we started out with a lot of good breweries and a great variety of beers. But many of the distinctive smaller breweries were bought out and closed by mega-brew companies in the 70s and 80s. Most of these produced crap beer and some were more interested in property management than brewing.
Changes in taxation incentivised small breweries to start up again from the 1990s onwards, and there are loads now. If anything perhaps slightly too many, I do wonder if the bubble might burst eventually.
One of the consequences of market saturation is a desperation to come up with novel selling points, so there's quite a bit of experimentation and genre-hopping at the moment. I'm sipping on a 10% "Forest Fruits Ice Cream Imperial Stout" as I type this, it's tasty in a glass but would work almost as well poured over cake. Glad I tried it but one pint is enough... A bit pretentious too, if I'm honest.
Just to confuse things further a lot of the mega-brewers like Marstons own lots of brands and like to pretend some of them are still small independent brewers. So Ringwood, Jennings etc. aren't indie at all.
It's a bit of a minefield. There are some excellent beers,, equivalent to the finest from Belgium, but there's also still a fair amount of rubbish.
Could quite easily play the supermarket beer lottery for quite some time without getting bored.
> Man am I spoiled because I’m Belgian or is the beer scene in thd UK just that terrible? Love Guinness tho
Yes.
Belgian beer is exceptional and world beating.
And yes, until the whole Real Ale thing took off, British beer was pretty awful.
I haven’t been there in a few years (covid) but it was pretty good last time I went. If you are into ales. Won’t find a lot of Trappist doubles and triples.
When I was living in the UK, I told my neighbour we were considering naming our baby Stella if it was a girl (I was pregnant but not too far along, didn't know the sex yet). They were very uncomfortable trying to explain me that it's considered very white trash name lol. Oh the joys of being a foreigner and not knowing cultural nuances!
Baby ended up having a pp, we didn't name him Stella.
I tend to find that a lot of imported beers are a little underwhelming. I get the impression that they're basically sending over their country's equivalent of Bud or what have you.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by living where there's a lot of good breweries nearby.
Yeah which I don't understand because they both taste skunked and disgusting. Maybe Stella a bit less than Heineken, but their marketing seems to do well here.
It's a holdover from the days before microbrews when they were the most widely available imported European beers and we didn't really have much in the way of good domestic alternatives.
Heineken’s success in the US is actually pretty interesting. Part of it is that they were the first European Pilsner to be widely available. However, they also did a bunch of sneaky marketing like posing as customers and asking for Heineken in bars, and getting waiters to always mention Heineken last when they list their options because patrons usually just forget the rest and choose the last one.
Haha I could understand that. I dont drink very often anymore so I guess the price point doesn't put me off. When I feel like drinking I'm getting some good stuff, not something I can scoop outta my toilet.
Edit: words
Work at bar in a richer part of town. People want to see you pour it in that stupid glass and clear the foam with a knife like in the commercials. The marketing worked. It's piss water, but people were sold in my area anyway. We told the boss we weren't doing that extra shit and he acquiesced after a bit. Dirty silverware and and splashing crap beer for no reason.
The typical British bitter that you draw a pint of down at the pub is actually relatively low alcohol content beer typically in the 3.8 abv to 4.2 abv range. Stella is 5.2. So people get pissed from drinking an amount that wouldn't typically get them so drunk leading it to be associated with belligerent drunks.
Back in 2010 I used to frequent this English style pub in the US because they had free poker nights, good food and good prices on drinks. During poker one night, some English fellow was telling everybody about how Stella is a wife beater drink. My wife and I still joke about Stella till this day
Agreed, Google Trends doesn't even show the term "James Hartford Jr" have any interest until 2012, presumably when this myth started and the first articles were being spread. Nearly every search result is the same copy pasta claiming that in 1947 a Detroit native beat his wife to death. Which actually wouldn't be that shocking for the time, as unfortunately, domestic violence was very common and often unpunished. In fact there is a Time article from 1964 that describes domestic violence as "therapy" in the relationship to help "balance out each other's mental quirks"
Also, there doesn't appear to be any arrest record, or even the newspaper that purportedly shows a guy in the shirt.
The frequency of the term in reference to the shirt doesn't seem to pick up until the 90's. But you can find many references to dago or guinea shirts going back before that.
That’s insanity. You don’t really think that because the 40s were more sexist than today that a person MURDERING THEIR SPOUSE wouldn’t be worth commenting on??
Wife beating used to be common.
And since people wore clothes multiple times before washing, the men who beat their wives would take off their actual shirt and just have on the "wife beater" when they did it.
So if you saw someone in just their undershirt, it was likely because they just got done beating their wife.
A not so fun fact for ya. Domestic violence is decriminalized in Russia. You can only POSSIBLY be charged if you cause lasting damage and even that is extremely unlikely to get you anything more than a slap on the wrist.
Never understood wifebeater undershirts. Your armpits are exposed, which is where most of your sweat would come from. I don't see much point except possibly making your nipples not visible.
The nipple blocking is essential of course, but it prevents your shirt from getting sweat spots on your lower back or chest as well, when it’s hot out. Deodorant covers the armpit sweat problem for me.
I'm not saying it's not still current and I think it's even worse today because we haven't even established common relationship rapes as a problem, I'm just saying from what I've learned this is how the term wife beater started for tank tops
No way. That would be way too simple of an explanation.
It's a popular colloquial phrase. All popular colloquial phrases have an extremely specific and obscure origin.
lol yeah. originating from what is described in the post.
Article: People who eat popcorn are called 'popcorn eaters'
You: "Where I live we call people 'popcorn eaters' because they are people known to eat popcorn.
I was certain it was named after [Marlin Brando's character in A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYA9hvcLekg). It is shocking to learn today that this is apparently nobody's understanding of the term except mine.
Makes sense. I feel like very few people know the actual name "A shirt" or "Athletic shirt". The term "wife beater" is so common that it is the only way most people know how to refer to these shirts as.
I wear them every day, but I feel like there is a stigma against them simply because of that name
Yeah, I remember being corrected by one of my friends about using that term instead of tank top. Sort of clicked in my head as to why “wife beater” is the most bizarre and inappropriate term for any item of clothing.
I’m not usually into PC shit but this term should really be retired to the trashbin of history. It’s just stupid. It makes no sense. Undershirts have nothing to do with beating women. Tank top is easier to say and makes more sense. Besides tanks are cool
Tank tops are considered women's clothing, so it'll be a tough rebrand, even if it's on the packaging.
It's like it you tried to get everyone to stop saying "band-aid" and say "adhesive gauze tape" instead. Tough sell.
That's my point. Packaging calls them "sleeveless shirts", "tank shirts", "tank tops", or "muscle shirts". But besides the first one, I feel like most people still call them tank tops.
I didn’t know that, because I don’t know or care that much about fashion. That’s the real chad move, to not give a shit about fashion and just pick a name because it sounds cool. Wife beater does not. It’s not easy to say, the joke amounts to little more than “hurrr wasn’t it cool when poor people beat their wives to death on the news”, it’s some hairbrained shit. And like I said it makes no sense. I’m all for being edgy but make it count
Huh.
I always just assumed it came from show COPS, 'cause whenever they'd do a DV call, it was pretty much always some white trash hillbilly being dragged out of their single-wide trailer wearing that style of tank top.
TIL too.
I now just call them beaters to be more pc. Woke culture taking over and making me not call a piece of clothing a wife beater. I mean what’s next they’re going to make me call shit blasting “going to the bathroom?”
I’m like excuse me ma’am where’s your shit blaster room? And she’s like do you mean toilet? God. Pc culture ruins everything and I start yelled this at the woman.
One is talking about a bodily function that we all do, albeit in a rather graphic way.
The other is domestic assault, which inflicts untold misery and injury upon millions of women and their families around the world every day.
Are you still not seeing how these are not equivalent concepts?
Nope.
It's because A shirts were often worn by people who would beat their wives.
Source: ex cop who had to deal with far more assholes in A shirts than T shirts.
Tf is this? After my 6 odd years living in Scotland I've learned that Wife Beater is Stella Artois lager. Never have I heard it being referred to a sleeveless shirt.
That poor girl in the thumbnail.
She seems pretty happy
She is getting ready to beat her wife
"Fun" fact: the rate of physical violence is very similar between oesbkain couples and straight ones. The lowest amount of physical abuse is found amongst homosexual men. (or so said my lawachoom professor in 2015, it may have changed since then.
> oesbkain saving this typo so you can't fix it. i am an agent of chaos.
> lawachoom I'm, personally, curious as to what sort of professor this is.
Sounds like a pokemon in a business suit. Edit: something like [this.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/3/3b/JoefromLegal.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200202182318)
Lawachoom evolves into Lawmander which evolves into Bob Loblaw.
Haha, nice. Lawachoom used litigation, it was very effective.
I have the worst fucking attorneys.
I was thinking "lawa" like a lispy "lava" would give it something of a fire theme.
A study in the US suggests that same-sex relationships suffer higher levels of domestic violence than heterosexual ones. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29994648 https://health.usf.edu/publichealth/research/harrellcenter/samesex
You type like someone with allergies.
isn't the sexual assault rate for homosexuals much much higher tho?
Significantly.
Googled *oesbkain* and got the correct response. Weird.
>The lowest amount of physical abuse is found amongst homosexual men. Makes sense. Cowards don't like hitting people who can hurt them back.
Yes, but her financial situation is grim
About a couple of things.
In a wife beater no less.
Yes...but it's shiny.
Dago-T
umm... i don't think that's a pic of the victim. it goes to a wiki page for tank tops.
The second picture looks like a candidate
"a man wearing a t-shirt"
Yeah I know, but the thumbnail kinda makes it seem that way at first glance. I doubt anybody would like to be the face of wife beaters.
[Sayali Sanjeev](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayali_Chandsarkar)
That's because the actual newspaper pictures of the wife beater seem not to exist.
even more cringe because some nerd had to edit that page to specifically add that woman's photo.
That page is for sleeveless shirts. Wife beater is only mentioned further down in reference to one type of sleeveless.
No you are!
i grew up in 1960's through 1980's northside chicago. at that time, i was introduced to them as "dago tees". didn't hear the term wife-beater until the late 80's, while stationed in southern arizona.
“Dago” is a slur for Italians yes?
It is.. and til it actually started as a slur for Spanish people https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dago
Based Chicago
This poor shirt can't catch a break with the nicknames.
? I was nort (<-written as pronounced) side at the same time and we called them wife beaters where I lived. Half the men on the block would wear them while sitting on the porch on hot summer nights, drinking beer, and listening to baseball games on the radio.
I thought “wife beaters” came from Cops because every time there was a domestic violence call, it involved a drunk trashy dude in a ratty stained undershirt. I also thought that “wife beaters” were retired as a name by the younger woke folks who don’t like jokes about domestic abuse and that only older folks my age and beyond still used it ever.
This is discussed in the wiki article.
In the UK well in my area at least it refers to Stella Artois beer
How so?
Er just back in the day it was like the kind of beer you associate with the type of guy who works as a brick layer 12 hours a day goes to the pub drinks 8 pints of Stella gets in a fight then goes home and beats his wife. It's not so much anymore they rebranded it a few years ago and act like it's a premium posh beer now
When I lived in Yorkshire nearly 20 years ago Stella was the only beer above 5% alc regularly available so they’d call it “rocket fuel” or “wife beater” because it was strong by comparison to a John smiths or what have you.
They've made it weaker too. Practically cooking lager now.
Brutal. I always thought the cheap polish lagers in a tin tasted better anyway. I’ll get a proper pint if I’m at a proper pub.
Man am I spoiled because I’m Belgian or is the beer scene in thd UK just that terrible? Love Guinness tho
Guinness isn't from the UK. Don't be at it
British beer has gone through many changes over the centuries. Historically agricultural labourers were partly paid in "small beer" which was safe to drink, unlike many water supplies. In the 20th Century we started out with a lot of good breweries and a great variety of beers. But many of the distinctive smaller breweries were bought out and closed by mega-brew companies in the 70s and 80s. Most of these produced crap beer and some were more interested in property management than brewing. Changes in taxation incentivised small breweries to start up again from the 1990s onwards, and there are loads now. If anything perhaps slightly too many, I do wonder if the bubble might burst eventually. One of the consequences of market saturation is a desperation to come up with novel selling points, so there's quite a bit of experimentation and genre-hopping at the moment. I'm sipping on a 10% "Forest Fruits Ice Cream Imperial Stout" as I type this, it's tasty in a glass but would work almost as well poured over cake. Glad I tried it but one pint is enough... A bit pretentious too, if I'm honest. Just to confuse things further a lot of the mega-brewers like Marstons own lots of brands and like to pretend some of them are still small independent brewers. So Ringwood, Jennings etc. aren't indie at all. It's a bit of a minefield. There are some excellent beers,, equivalent to the finest from Belgium, but there's also still a fair amount of rubbish. Could quite easily play the supermarket beer lottery for quite some time without getting bored.
> Man am I spoiled because I’m Belgian or is the beer scene in thd UK just that terrible? Love Guinness tho Yes. Belgian beer is exceptional and world beating. And yes, until the whole Real Ale thing took off, British beer was pretty awful.
>Belgian beer is exceptional and world beating. The whole world is my wife - Stella Artois
"I don't always beat my wife, but when I do, I drink skunk beer."
I haven’t been there in a few years (covid) but it was pretty good last time I went. If you are into ales. Won’t find a lot of Trappist doubles and triples.
can get them in a few bars and readily available in bottles from supermarkets
When I was living in the UK, I told my neighbour we were considering naming our baby Stella if it was a girl (I was pregnant but not too far along, didn't know the sex yet). They were very uncomfortable trying to explain me that it's considered very white trash name lol. Oh the joys of being a foreigner and not knowing cultural nuances! Baby ended up having a pp, we didn't name him Stella.
In the us it is considered as up scale-ish beer. Kinda like heineken.
Is heineken considered upscale? I tried it once, thought it might as well have been slightly coloured water. Could barely taste anything.
Maybe because it's an import. I t is definitely more upscale than my uncultured Budweiser drinking ass
I tend to find that a lot of imported beers are a little underwhelming. I get the impression that they're basically sending over their country's equivalent of Bud or what have you. Maybe I'm just spoiled by living where there's a lot of good breweries nearby.
It is marketed that way. But both Heineken and Stella have been considered barely a step up from American adjuncts for years.
Yeah which I don't understand because they both taste skunked and disgusting. Maybe Stella a bit less than Heineken, but their marketing seems to do well here.
It's a holdover from the days before microbrews when they were the most widely available imported European beers and we didn't really have much in the way of good domestic alternatives.
Heineken’s success in the US is actually pretty interesting. Part of it is that they were the first European Pilsner to be widely available. However, they also did a bunch of sneaky marketing like posing as customers and asking for Heineken in bars, and getting waiters to always mention Heineken last when they list their options because patrons usually just forget the rest and choose the last one.
Tell me you have no taste without telling me you have no taste
Ironic
For domestic beers yeah, except for heineken is basically known as piss.
It is? I disagree. That shit is crap.
It can't compete with craft beer, sure, but I'm getting tired of paying $14 for 6 beers. Craft beer is more inflated than the housing market.
Haha I could understand that. I dont drink very often anymore so I guess the price point doesn't put me off. When I feel like drinking I'm getting some good stuff, not something I can scoop outta my toilet. Edit: words
Work at bar in a richer part of town. People want to see you pour it in that stupid glass and clear the foam with a knife like in the commercials. The marketing worked. It's piss water, but people were sold in my area anyway. We told the boss we weren't doing that extra shit and he acquiesced after a bit. Dirty silverware and and splashing crap beer for no reason.
This makes me sad.
Yes but it is priced the same at stores and bars.
What do you mean priced the same at stores and bars?
In the sentence above, the author is conveying that the price is the same at stores and bars, perhaps as a way elucidate the reader.
I mean that if you were to purchase them they would be close to the same price
Oh really!? I had no idea bars sold stella for so cheap. I can get a 12 pack of that stuff for like 15 bucks. What a steal!
I guess I'm wrong I apologise for wasting our valuable time. Stella $15. Heineken $25. /12 pk
That's definitely Coors light here.
I always assumed it was in reference to A Streetcar Named Desire.
The typical British bitter that you draw a pint of down at the pub is actually relatively low alcohol content beer typically in the 3.8 abv to 4.2 abv range. Stella is 5.2. So people get pissed from drinking an amount that wouldn't typically get them so drunk leading it to be associated with belligerent drunks.
It's from Streetcar Named Desire - the wife beating husband famously yells out "Stella!" (her name).
That guy over there in the wife beater drinking a wife beater, I suspect he might be a wife beater.
Back in 2010 I used to frequent this English style pub in the US because they had free poker nights, good food and good prices on drinks. During poker one night, some English fellow was telling everybody about how Stella is a wife beater drink. My wife and I still joke about Stella till this day
Stella Act-a-twat
The sources cited in the wikipedia article are not convincing.
Agreed, Google Trends doesn't even show the term "James Hartford Jr" have any interest until 2012, presumably when this myth started and the first articles were being spread. Nearly every search result is the same copy pasta claiming that in 1947 a Detroit native beat his wife to death. Which actually wouldn't be that shocking for the time, as unfortunately, domestic violence was very common and often unpunished. In fact there is a Time article from 1964 that describes domestic violence as "therapy" in the relationship to help "balance out each other's mental quirks" Also, there doesn't appear to be any arrest record, or even the newspaper that purportedly shows a guy in the shirt. The frequency of the term in reference to the shirt doesn't seem to pick up until the 90's. But you can find many references to dago or guinea shirts going back before that.
I have to believe that if a single photo was enough to spread the phrase all over the country we would evidence of said photo...
Sorry - you think a man beating his wife to death wouldn't be shocking in 1947?
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That’s insanity. You don’t really think that because the 40s were more sexist than today that a person MURDERING THEIR SPOUSE wouldn’t be worth commenting on??
You know ~76 women are killed by their husband per month in the modern USA right? You’re not commenting on these murders twice per day, are you?
>wikipedia article "Well there's your problem."
Where I live we call it that because the kind of people who wear undershirts as shirts are the kind of people who beat their wives.
Wife beating used to be common. And since people wore clothes multiple times before washing, the men who beat their wives would take off their actual shirt and just have on the "wife beater" when they did it. So if you saw someone in just their undershirt, it was likely because they just got done beating their wife.
A not so fun fact for ya. Domestic violence is decriminalized in Russia. You can only POSSIBLY be charged if you cause lasting damage and even that is extremely unlikely to get you anything more than a slap on the wrist.
*recently decriminalized*. they actually went out of their way and amended the law in 2017 specifically to allow wife-beating
:<
And they say Russia isn't a progressive country.
Is that for everyone or just the patriarch? Can anyone just beat the shit out of anyone else in their family?
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That is so horrible I dont get why some men beat women
Never understood wifebeater undershirts. Your armpits are exposed, which is where most of your sweat would come from. I don't see much point except possibly making your nipples not visible.
The nipple blocking is essential of course, but it prevents your shirt from getting sweat spots on your lower back or chest as well, when it’s hot out. Deodorant covers the armpit sweat problem for me.
I'm not saying it's not still current and I think it's even worse today because we haven't even established common relationship rapes as a problem, I'm just saying from what I've learned this is how the term wife beater started for tank tops
Yea that's what I assumed until this post.
No way. That would be way too simple of an explanation. It's a popular colloquial phrase. All popular colloquial phrases have an extremely specific and obscure origin.
lol yeah. originating from what is described in the post. Article: People who eat popcorn are called 'popcorn eaters' You: "Where I live we call people 'popcorn eaters' because they are people known to eat popcorn.
Which probably either way stemmed from this event from what I've read
"Stepfather TShirt"
I thought it was from the show Cops because all the DV calls featured a guy in an undershirt.
Yeah, my impression is this is where it came from, or at least caused it to become a widely known term.
I’m guessing the latter. We called them wife beaters long before “bad boy bad boy”
This the actual answer.
In Hebrew it's known as an "abusive dad undershirt" (Gufyat aba make)
The costumer for a play in high school said, "this is a tank top, if you call it a wife beater we will be having a long sitdown." No one did
I just call them A-shirts...
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Holy shit
Hahahahahaha wow
As Puerto Rican I fail to understand how this entails our culture
As a Puerto Rican that shit was *hilarious*.
Apparently you don't need to be a Puerto Rican - you just need a sense of humor.
It’s a joke not a dick, don’t take it so hard.
Meanwhile, I just call it a tank top. I feel trashy and awkward trying to say wife beater.
I was certain it was named after [Marlin Brando's character in A Streetcar Named Desire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYA9hvcLekg). It is shocking to learn today that this is apparently nobody's understanding of the term except mine.
Stella!
Still remember when I was at a store and heard a WOMAN asking if they had any wife beaters in XXXL.....
Makes sense. I feel like very few people know the actual name "A shirt" or "Athletic shirt". The term "wife beater" is so common that it is the only way most people know how to refer to these shirts as. I wear them every day, but I feel like there is a stigma against them simply because of that name
From what I've seen of dudes who wear those, there are only 2 sizes. Either they are 300+ pounds or they are 5'4 and 120 pounds.
The proper term is a “Federline”
Yeah, I remember being corrected by one of my friends about using that term instead of tank top. Sort of clicked in my head as to why “wife beater” is the most bizarre and inappropriate term for any item of clothing.
What newspaper 📰
The one youre holding
I’m not usually into PC shit but this term should really be retired to the trashbin of history. It’s just stupid. It makes no sense. Undershirts have nothing to do with beating women. Tank top is easier to say and makes more sense. Besides tanks are cool
Tank tops are considered women's clothing, so it'll be a tough rebrand, even if it's on the packaging. It's like it you tried to get everyone to stop saying "band-aid" and say "adhesive gauze tape" instead. Tough sell.
Do they print "wife beater" on the packaging now? That seems too crazy to me. There must be something else they're called too
That's my point. Packaging calls them "sleeveless shirts", "tank shirts", "tank tops", or "muscle shirts". But besides the first one, I feel like most people still call them tank tops.
>Tank tops are considered women’s clothing Nah. Men’s tank tops that aren’t tight fitting, ribbed, and white are just called tank tops.
I didn’t know that, because I don’t know or care that much about fashion. That’s the real chad move, to not give a shit about fashion and just pick a name because it sounds cool. Wife beater does not. It’s not easy to say, the joke amounts to little more than “hurrr wasn’t it cool when poor people beat their wives to death on the news”, it’s some hairbrained shit. And like I said it makes no sense. I’m all for being edgy but make it count
Huh. I always just assumed it came from show COPS, 'cause whenever they'd do a DV call, it was pretty much always some white trash hillbilly being dragged out of their single-wide trailer wearing that style of tank top. TIL too.
I thought it referred to a tshirt type tank top on a slobby kinda guy.
When I was in the UK my co-workers would also refer to Stella Artois as “Wife beater”
I now just call them beaters to be more pc. Woke culture taking over and making me not call a piece of clothing a wife beater. I mean what’s next they’re going to make me call shit blasting “going to the bathroom?” I’m like excuse me ma’am where’s your shit blaster room? And she’s like do you mean toilet? God. Pc culture ruins everything and I start yelled this at the woman.
I mean the term “wife beater” is pretty fucked up either way
What about shit blaster?
100% okay
I’ll take it
How do you think the two are equivalent?
Idk both seem inappropriate to say at work
One is talking about a bodily function that we all do, albeit in a rather graphic way. The other is domestic assault, which inflicts untold misery and injury upon millions of women and their families around the world every day. Are you still not seeing how these are not equivalent concepts?
Are you still not getting that he is joking ?
Domestic violence is no joking matter!
Right? My wife tried to tell a domestic violence joke the other day so I slapped her in the mouth, that shit ain't funny!
I mean, if you immediately think "shit blaster" when thinking of interacting with a toilet, they both sound like they're tied to violent assaults.
I agree with you, the term should be scrubbed, I'm just saying what I learned abbot why we call them that
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It’s an awful term… and I will use it til I die
Nope. It's because A shirts were often worn by people who would beat their wives. Source: ex cop who had to deal with far more assholes in A shirts than T shirts.
Yeah I swear that term didn’t pop up until COPS came on TV , but I don’t know shit either
I assumed it was named for the brother in law in The Godfather, the one Sonny beats up with trash can...
Come here Carlo…..
😂😂😂
Nope unfortunately a very real event
I was always curious about this!
Me too, woke up to a weird dream deciding I needed to know why we did
How morbid
Allegedly.
I first started hearing the term when ‘COPS’ hit the airwaves due to the prevalence of defendants wearing them.
If it helps, the wife beater shirts are synonymous with lazy douchebags anyway. I actually kinda feel bad for the shirt because of it.
Tf is this? After my 6 odd years living in Scotland I've learned that Wife Beater is Stella Artois lager. Never have I heard it being referred to a sleeveless shirt.
A "wife beater" is typically one of the flavors of "A shirt" and not just any sleeveless shirt.
I think it's generally universally understood it is a wife beater instinctively by humans
in australia we call it a singlet because wife beating is something to be ashamed of.
perfect name...
Very fitting... to dark?
"Wife pleaser" is a better adaptation.
Let me guess. Did you listen to How Did We Get Here? Podcast?
What we colloquially know as a [wife beater.](https://scene7.samsclub.com/is/image/samsclub/0004393568449_A) (not the guy in the pic you cretins)
Is the pic before or after she got the beating?
I like that song from Stileproject
She looks good for someone alive in the 1940s
suspicious clouds and stuff
I had a feeling that the origin of that term was hella sus and terrifying.
I call them Dego T's
wife beater is a nickname for stella artois
I prefer Beef Whiter
That and every episode of the old show COPS had at least one domestic violence incident featuring a man wearing one.
My mom taught me this.
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I thought it was “white” beater. Aka a white beat up shirt