This is a little off topic.

I was out today and a friend who I hadn't seen for a while showed up.  He was wearing a nice shirt with the Polo Ralph Lauren logo on it.  I felt kind of weird when I saw it.  I don't know why.  It is not the first time it happens to me.  A professor at college used to come with these shirts.  A friend of mine used to say that he was a baller.

Why do I feel inferior when I see someone wearing this shirt? Do other people feel the same way too? Does it have to do with masculine/feminine issues?

There is a certain look that some men have that I automatically find intimidating and threatening, whether they mean it or not.  I can never be friendly to them and always feel like I have to watch my back.  Not sure if that's what you mean though.

Quote from: Metroland on November 19, 2011, 04:14:11 PM
This is a little off topic.

I was out today and a friend who I hadn't seen for a while showed up.  He was wearing a nice shirt with the Polo Ralph Lauren logo on it.  I felt kind of weird when I saw it.  I don't know why.  It is not the first time it happens to me.  A professor at college used to come with these shirts.  A friend of mine used to say that he was a baller.

Why do I feel inferior when I see someone wearing this shirt? Do other people feel the same way too? Does it have to do with masculine/feminine issues?

Exactly what did this mean?

A roister-doister, playa, rake, gaddabout, bit of a shagger.

You feel inferior because of your relationship between you and the man you associate the shirt with, and being you professor, it could have been that you felt morally superior but intellectually and socially inferior to 'em, and it bugs you some.

I feel a hatred to anyone with an old school tie for similar reasons.

Quote from: Pica Pica on November 21, 2011, 04:58:38 PM
You feel inferior because of your relationship between you and the man you associate the shirt with, and being you professor, it could have been that you felt morally superior but intellectually and socially inferior to 'em, and it bugs you some.

I always laugh inside a little. I usually think something along the line of 'what an idiot'. But then I don't like much of anything today.

@ivan, I think what an idiot is the right response.  So what that he is wearing a "signé" shirt. Freak!  Is it a chauvinistic thing?

That's funny because over here those shirts mean: golf, gay or casual Friday at the office, depending on the context.