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Top Answer out of 5 by Anon on Jul 30, 2005 at 2:48 pm Permalink
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Your link establishes the veracity of your answer. I never knew any of this!! I guess I lead a sheltered life.
Wifebeater came from the 1951 movie A Streetcar Named Desire/Marlon Brando who plays aguy who hits his wife and he wears it
Oddly enough wife beaters are common among the black community.
Answer 2 out of 5 by theredbaron on May 4, 2007 at 2:36 pm Permalink
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Dude - I'm not particularly proud or embarrassed to say I'm of redneck stock myself... southern and central IL.
I didn't name them "wife beaters" but I can tell you how they were viewed when I was a kid growing up in the 70's and thereafter... I certainly don't mean to imply if you wear one, you must be a wifebeater... I've never hit a woman either - and I wore them in every shade of the rainbow. My little sister also wore/wears them on occasion and SHE refers to them as "wifebeaters" too... note I said they are "STEREOTYPICALLY" -
"Steroetypically"
True that, true that.
how do you know that more blacks wear them? It's funny that you get offended when someone makes an assumption about you, then you turn around and do the exact same thing.
Answer 3 out of 5 by Cowboy-Read My Profile on May 4, 2007 at 7:19 pm Permalink
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Answer 4 out of 5 by monkey do on May 4, 2007 at 7:13 pm Permalink
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Answer 5 out of 5 by victoria123 on May 4, 2007 at 3:10 pm Permalink
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