To wear or not to wear?

[The Curmudgeon]

The Curmudgeon is having a bit of a dilemma. Maybe its a crisis of confidence or some deep rooted paranoia, but I'm unsure of where to turn. Hear me out.

I wear T-shirts, mostly, of things I'm into. Bands, movies, music, comic books.. all that stuff. Plus cult, trashy kids shows (He-Man etc), you know the sort of stuff I'm on about.

My favourite ever TV show, something I've watched since I was, like, 13 years old? WWE. And I just can't bring myself to wear a wrestling shirt.

And I don't know why. Maybe it's the stigma of proudly displaying admiration for a semi-naked, muscly guy? Maybe it's because I have the idea people might look at me and think I sit there, open mouthed and drooling thinking it's all real? Or maybe because I have this built-in (unfair) stereotype in my head that all grown up wrestling fans look like this?



I mean, I can, and do, wear a T-shirt of fucking YOGI BEAR, (tagline: "I'm smarter than the average bear"), a cartoon I can barely even remember watching, but I won't wear a shirt of something I dedicate six hours of my life watching?

Here's three of the shirts I've been toying with buying, but just can't commit;








So what's your (honest) opinion? Are grown men who wear wrestling t-shirts fucking sad, lonely outcasts? And for that matter, are grown men who wear Yogi Bear t-shirts fucking sad, lonely outcasts?

Opinions, please.

[trashcanman]

Can't they both be equally outcast?


I don't watch wrestling anymore, but I would wear the fuck out of this:



or this:




I don't really see the stigma against watching wrestling as significant as the stigma against reading comics so who gives a fuck. The other day a coworker with a massive Wonder Woman collection was laughing at me for admitting to being a comic nerd when I was trying to explain to somebody who that guy at the end of The Avengers was, as if that makes any sense. The point being, who gives a shit if people think you're dumb for liking what you like? They probably ran out and bought 50 Shades of Grey because they heard about it on The View or some shit and now they feel like literary scholars because they read a "grown-up" book. You really care about what this lady thinks about your hobbies?



Buy those motherfuckin' shirts. As if most people are even going to get the first two unless they watch wrestling as well.

[The Curmudgeon]

True, all true. And that Hot Rod shirt is bad-ass. On a similar note, I saw this on the same website ("Wearing wrestling shirts is cool again") today and it's an instant buy.



Shut up and take my money.

So wait, the same bitch with fucking Wonder Woman comics is mocking you because you happen to know who the bad guy at the end of the biggest movie of the 00's is? Riiight. That makes sense. Man, Trash, you do seem to work with a whole gallery of assholes.

[trashcanman]

She was mostly playing with me so I wasn't pissed or anything, but I still found it more than a little ironic and backwards.