>>20860800Ok you have to go back to the 1970s and 1980s television to trace what happened.
Every time you saw someone wearing classic boxers it was an old senior citizen man and if you'll notice, seniors were always depicted as decrepit and struggling with some sort of condition i.e. hunched over, with a cane, etc. So, when I was a kid I would call them "decrepit, old man boxers". All other males were in classic briefs.
Fast forward to jr high and I was in between bicycles and rode a skateboard to get around. In particular, a friend I would hang out with who had a commodore 64 lived 2 miles away. So, I would routinely get a 4 mile round trip of skateboarding in and my thigh muscles got huge and ripped. This is how I realized why briefs were "in" at the time and classic boxers were reserved for "decrepit old men". You see, when you have thigh muscles of any substance, if your boys don't have support, then any false move can become an impromptu performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker". Decrepit old men have toothpicks for legs so they don't have to worry about support of the boys.
Fast forward to the first Clinton administration when the hip hop culture started to get popular and this is when you saw hip hop, in its need to be counter culture edgelords, embrace decrepit old man boxers. I was like, "WTF are they doing? LOLOL" It's no surprise that within a few years a compromise needed to be found due to the need for supporting the boys to avoid the nutcracker factor which became boxer briefs.
My thigh muscles are still huge and ripped and I've never owned or worn a pair of decrepit old man boxers. Any guy who does either has toothpicks for legs or loves Tchaikovsky more than his boys.
