Man Sized T-Shirt Hopes and Dreams
Let’s play a game.
Step One - Go to the place where you keep all of your lifting/ training shirts. Have you got any competition shirts?
Step Two - I want you to ask yourself a question…How many of the competition shirts you’ve collected are women’s shirts and how many of them are stiff, thick, boxy shirts? How many of them are in fact men’s t-shirts?
Are you a man?
Hang on...This can't be right...Maybe you accidentally ticked the “male” box and signed up to compete as a man?
An honest mistake.
Or maybe this little mix up has occurred because you are one of those women with an androgynous name like, Peta or Charlie or Bruce??
Step Three - Ask yourself, “What the actual fuck?”
Have you ever carried a pair of scissors to a competition so that you can modify your TShirt? Do you ever come home from a competition with a phone full of photos of you and your mates looking a bit shit?
Now, I know how hard it is to organise an event, I literally know and understand. I also know how hard it is to organise artwork for t-shirts and liaise with printers. I also know how not hard it is to select women or men’s shirts. I’m not having a “dig”, I’m asking for a pretty basic courtesy to be extended to half of your competitors.
If you think I’m being obnoxious, then please just for a second imagine the reverse…If a group of men paid to attend your competition or event and were supplied with ill-fitting women’s t-shirts…how do you imagine that would go down? It’s not only that, but we are often competing in public and invited to share the event within our networks. I want to support your event, I want to help you promote the lifting but I also don’t want particularly to look like a a man lady.
In the meantime, when you're given another men’s shirt, and you’re not a man...maybe try one of these super fucking genius hacks?
Step One - Go to the place where you keep all of your lifting/ training shirts. Have you got any competition shirts?
Step Two - I want you to ask yourself a question…How many of the competition shirts you’ve collected are women’s shirts and how many of them are stiff, thick, boxy shirts? How many of them are in fact men’s t-shirts?
Are you a man?
Hang on...This can't be right...Maybe you accidentally ticked the “male” box and signed up to compete as a man?
An honest mistake.
Or maybe this little mix up has occurred because you are one of those women with an androgynous name like, Peta or Charlie or Bruce??
Step Three - Ask yourself, “What the actual fuck?”
Have you ever carried a pair of scissors to a competition so that you can modify your TShirt? Do you ever come home from a competition with a phone full of photos of you and your mates looking a bit shit?
Now, I know how hard it is to organise an event, I literally know and understand. I also know how hard it is to organise artwork for t-shirts and liaise with printers. I also know how not hard it is to select women or men’s shirts. I’m not having a “dig”, I’m asking for a pretty basic courtesy to be extended to half of your competitors.
If you think I’m being obnoxious, then please just for a second imagine the reverse…If a group of men paid to attend your competition or event and were supplied with ill-fitting women’s t-shirts…how do you imagine that would go down? It’s not only that, but we are often competing in public and invited to share the event within our networks. I want to support your event, I want to help you promote the lifting but I also don’t want particularly to look like a a man lady.
In the meantime, when you're given another men’s shirt, and you’re not a man...maybe try one of these super fucking genius hacks?