It’s International Sweatpants Day & gray sweats have social media overheated
Vox’s Rebecca Jennings covered in a 2019 think piece about “the enduring, endearing cult of gray sweatpants thirst,” this casual garment has become a symbol of thinly-veiled exhibitionism and voyeurism online. (So thinly veiled, in fact, that it’s usually just one layer of form-fitting fabric between the viewer and the full monty.)Subscribe to our daily newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.“It’s the safest way of sending a dick pic without the social stigma of it,” Thirst Aid Kitco-host Nichole Perkins explained Jennings. “Even if you don’t have a body like Chris Hemsworth, It’s a way for men who have different body types to still get the attention they want.
They know what they’re doing, and they can get away with it. It’s a very casual flex.”A year later, GQ’s Max Berlinger reported on fall being “the time of year for a very specific, very horny delight: gray sweatpants, and the faint outline of the wearer’s dick they allow.” In internet parlance, that’s Gray Sweatpants Season.“The sweatpants exhibitionist gets the plausible deniability that they’re not showing off,” SfSx comic book author Tina Horn told Berlinger. “And the sweatpants voyeur gets the thrill of witnessing something, like a dick, that they’re ‘not supposed to be seeing.’”Below, see those who celebrate this sartorial selection—on both sides of the equation—every January 21, every Gray Sweatpants Season, or any other time of year.when I see a guy in gray sweatpants… pic.twitter.com/JO29k9zqZGGay month is over time for gray sweatpants season pic.twitter.com/EEM6z5Fig2If you don’t zoom into a grey sweatpants pic, are you even gay?these grey sweatpants really do my ass justice pic.twitter.com/yLkyEiS64Agray sweatpants are men's lingerie.
