Man Things

[lydamorehouse]

Mason is now officially ready for the Kuk SoOlympics. We have purchased "the cup." I should say, though, standing in that huge aisle at the rather awkwardly named Dick's Sporting Goods store, I was overwhelmed by our choices. Weirdly, it wasn't size. There seemed to be standard boy/teen/man options. Or even type... there were really just three of those, as well -- with or without jock strap, basically.

No, what was overwhelming was the color choices.

I had no idea that men would care quite so much about whether the cup, which they are presumably wearing UNDER their outfit, is red, black, yellow, blue... or if it had FLAMES. Seriously, the color options were astounding. I sort of favored the powder blue, but Mason went with basic black (I guess it goes better with with more things, you know.)

Gah.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

I can't believe he went with black when FLAMES were an option!

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Maybe he'll grow into the flames as he better develops his personal style. Or discovers that he needs a spare when the first one gets lost....

Geez, when I regularly saw cups & jock straps (rooming with an SCA fighter type), they came in ONE color: dingy off-white! Somewhere, I'd guess that people are customizing cups to coordinate with, I dunno, one's kingdom? color of one's liege's house? royal lions?)

[john jackson (from livejournal.com)]

I've always thought the Off-white theme for such things was mainly because there are certain items of clothing that one really wants to wash with bleach. Flames would fade after a while. Bloody symbolic.