What's the point of a baseball cap?

Three guys I know who wear them are bald and don't want people to know.

R1, tell them we know

What's frustrating for me is that I actually have rather a fetish for bald(ing) guys.

The worst is when they're worn backwards.

A friend of mine wears one to cover his baldness. It's so fucking obvious, but gay men are ever so self conscious.

Haven't they heard of rogaine

I don't wear one often, but when I do it's either to cover up bed head or to protect me from the sun .

I think for a lot of guys it started in college. You roll out of bed with no time for a shower and throw on a hat to hid the bed head. I always wear a hat when I am outside in the summer. More often a wide brimmed or floppy hat to protect my ears from the sun but sometimes a baseball hat.

Why don't men wear straw hats anymore?

Strange sometimes you watch on xtube or tumblr real-life gay orgies (homemade movies) and there are always guys wearing a baseball cap while they are fucking or getting fucked. They are completely nude except the baseball cap. Strange.

I wear one when I don't have time to be properly coiffed and chapeau'd.

Maybe they are showing support for their favorite team?

I use a cap with I play tennis and every now and then when out in the sun to protect myself. Never wear one inside.

r4 better than wearing a headband everywhere

If you are bald/balding or shave your head, you know that there are few things worse than a sunburned head. My guess is that most of the guys wear them for protection, and aren't trying to hide anything.

Bro!

I get douche chills every time I see those pics of Paul Ryan! Thanks for nothing R16

It's to keep the sun and the rain off your face, but it's okay if your pony tail gets wet.

And your ears. They can get wet too.

It part of mainstream American male identify. It's like sneakers. It's part of the masculine uniform

I'm having a bad hair day or just running errands or being lazy

Don't ask me!

My type

Anthony

Because you can't always wear shoes with lifts and the cap adds inches.

jock

fine

My husband is bald and wears one to keep the sun from broiling his scalp in summer. He's not a hipster, so he can't wear a fedora. He's not an elderly effem.inate, so he can't wear a Panama or a straw boater.

So many hot jocks wear them, others emulate the style

Keeps the sun out of my eyes

Yeah, I wear one to keep the top of my head from burning and to offer my face a little protection from the sun.

As r28 stated, I don't really see myself in my forties in most other kinds of headware.

He could wear a fez, R28

A lot of the guys who wear them have a full head of hair. They usually drive pick-ups as well.

Down South, the guys who wear typically baseball caps during all waking hours are:

(1) idiots,

(2) rednex,

(3) pickum up truck owners,

(4) Trump-votin' Tea Partiers, and

(5) white peckerwoods (look it up)

A lot of black dudes wear them too ya know

It depends on the guy

I've got a bald spot, and a head-covering of some kind protects my bald spot from the sun which directly shines onto it (I'm of Northern European descent and burn very easily). I don't give a shit who sees my bald spot or not, and never wear a cap indoors. My alternative to a baseball cap would be to wear an enormous picture hat outdoors.

Oh no, the Prole Cap troll (aka OP) returns!

The picture troll is in attendance as well, dear.

R16, what exactly is Paul Ryan doing in the first picture? Being cool?

The brim of the cap is a good eyeshade. Also, even if you have a full head of hair, the sun can penetrate your hair and dry out (and even, with prolonged exposure, sunburn) your scalp. Sometimes as an alternative I wear a Breton fisherman's cap, which is like a watch cap (stretchy, no brim) but made from a soft striped cotton fabric. It probably looks gay, but it's comfortable.

Covering up that bald spot that happens on the back of the crown. Men always need hats.

R41, lazy fucker. You're balding, just admit it.

Sun/hair out of eyes.

You are going bald! The human race shares this unfortunate aging response. Everyone on the globe and every country can relate. Stupid ass humans.

I wear one when I don't feel like combing my hair. Why is this a question?

How dense can you be to ask this question? Jeebus! It is simply one the few interesting male accessories We have very few of them as it is you know (compared to the ladies that have way to many). If it is interesting to you or not is a matter of opinion. I think they look fine. It really is so insignificant I see no point in wasting time analyzing why someone is wearing one.

They're very useful in knowing from whom to dock 25 IQ points on sight.

I love men who think they are safe from balding. Just wait.

R48, you type prissy

Why does Anthony Recker wear a baseball cap? It's not as if baseball is his main skill.

Depends on what it's made of and if it has right wing slogans on it.

Plus points for denim or leather.

Demerits if it says "Make America Great Again". But changing that to "Make America Hate Again" shows spunk, and we all like spunk.

Most men I know who wear them are bald or balding and try to hide it. I get wearing them in the summer to protect a bald pate from the sun, but why wear them in the winter? Like a poster upthread, I find many bald men very sexy, so why hide it?

Why do DL types have such a problem with the things most guys do, yet expect people to be tolerant of their very unusual and bizarre tendencies and interests?

I wear a caftan with a hood.

How's this for a gimme cap patch on the front"

When in doubt, whip it out!"

I actually saw this gat on a guy in FL years ago.

If memory serves correctly, baseball caps as full-time adornment became popular in the early 1990s. It surprised me that guys were wearing them all the time - not just when playing sports - and even indoors. It seemed anachronistic. At the beginning it definitely had a fratty-bro vibe to it, but quickly became normcore.

I've had countless blowjobs from guys for whom I've had to turn or remove the cap because the brim gets in the way (of my 3" cock lol). Usually the guys are bald(ing). I don't care, and wish they didn't either. Vanity in a man is a turnoff for me.

Guy's wear ballcaps for aesthetic purposes too, it's not just about some thinly veiled attempt to cover up their perceived baldness, or other supposed insecurities. Plus there were times when I was younger, and had to wear a hat at work, where I would sport a ballcap when I would go out to the bars later on, simply because I had "hat head" and didn't have time to go home and wash and style it out.

The point is to make america great again, OP.

Like many others, I occasionally wear one to cover up bed head. But I NEVER wear it backwards. Are you a professional Major League Baseball catcher? Then you may wear it backwards. Riding a bike but forgot your helmet? Fine, you can wear it backwards to keep it from blowing off. But, like R48, I deduct IQ points for any other backwards baseball cap. Because I can smell the douche-bro fumes from here.

R60, who do you think you are to tell others how to wear your cap? I can imagine there are countless things you do or like that people consider weird, stupid, or creepy.

I wear one when I am too lazy / tired to deal with my hair or want to hide my face.

It's what men do

I need something to cover my ears, thank you

It keeps me from freckling and sunburn, what of it.

It can enhance a hot dude by making him athletic and swaggy

Yeah it makes hot guys look even hotter.

R59 covers up lobotomy scar AND keeps his comb over in place.

I wore one recently while taking pictures in a Jewish cemetery where you're supposed to wear a hat because it's the same as being in a temple.

The Duck Bill brim makes you look like an inner city kid. MLB guys wear the smaller brim.

The duck bill makes you look like a white redneck trucker. See Trump's goofy-ass hat.

I'm with R3, I think lots of guys losing their hair are hot. Masculine.

[quote] I'm with R3. I think lots of guys losing their hair are hot. Masculine.

Nasty.

I hate the oversized baseball caps that look like the guy is wearing an upside down kitchen pot on his head. There is a tall, muscular guy at my gym who struts around wearing one and he looks ridiculous.

The oversize caps are huge with young folks because it is associated with hip hop and therefore considered cool

I think it's just part of American male culture. It def kind of has a frat/bro-ish thing going on with it.

But I've never gotten the whole cocking it to one side, or wearing it backward...other than the 'look' it gives. I mean, kind of defeats the purpose of the bill right?

Didn't hip-hop culture kind of make it more of a fashion 'thing' than baseball itself ever did, so maybe that's why so many guys so easily adopt it? Hip-hop/urban culture has had a huge influence on overall American male culture and masculinity, so maybe it has something to do with that...

Yeah, hip hop has really made it even more widespread and "hip." Also, hip hop features "fitted caps." A lot of dudes collect caps, like sneakers.

A young of people judge male swag by how a guy wears a baseball cap. It communicates an attitude.

r76, it's about macho swag and style.

Jeah

R49 - I'm sixty, and just starting to get a few grey hair, with a full head of hair, that is only slightly thinner than it was years ago. Gawd, I had great hair, and in the early 90's it was down past my shoulder blades. I occasionally wear a baseball cap because I'm light skinned, and live in the tropics, But overall, I dislike having anything on my head, including eye glasses. Perhaps I should wear one more often, and sunglasses, just because we're on camera everywhere we go.

Because it's the style

It's the height of "masc" style, along with tattoos

R20 has it. The wierd thing is the porn wearers. You also see guys wearing them in saunas. WTF?

It's worn in porn to make dudes look more athletic and masculine. Makes them fit into the fantasy types

It's a huge part of the bro look and vibe

A baseball cap does make me look younger. Always sad to see someone over 50 wearing one and hoping to convince people he's younger

Some older dudes pull it off well. Especially if athletic and fit

I like it very much

*sigh*

Only on DL would a baseball cap be described as distinctly "masculine" apparel. Didn't you boys ever hear of softball-playing lesbians??

I have a huge selection of baseball caps, many of them souvenirs from places I've been. I've worn single every one of them at least once, even the "novelty" ones (like the one with a fish head on the front and the tail on the back). I love hats in general, but baseball caps are easy to accumulate, and they don't need any care like "real" hats do.

My-ex-the-cop used to tell me I look terrible in hats. I don't care. Now that I'm old, I'll wear whatever I like.

Softball playing lesbians ARE masculine.

My hair is thinning on top enough that sunburn can happen. I have no actual bald spot, and I don't cover my head when I'm not out in enough sun to burn me, so I don't use hats to pretend that my hair isn't thinning. But, when needed, a ball cap protects the top of my head and forehead from scorching. It's a practical choice, not a vain choice.

R92? I never played softball. Just sayin'.

[quote]Only on DL would a baseball cap be described as distinctly "masculine" apparel. Didn't you boys ever hear of softball-playing lesbians??

R92 beat me to it, but one what planet are the softball-playing lesbians not the masculine ones?

I concur. I wore one when I was shedding and could not get a proper style.

Softball playing lesbians are masculine, dude

I am losing my hair so I wear one if I am going to be outside all day in the sun. But never backwards or in the house, and not the square style Trump Chinese made kind. I am not trying to hide anything but that said, I am one of those guys that good in hats. Not all guys look good in hats. When I had a lot of hair, I always got complements. Even now, without fishing for a complement, people tell me I look good in a hat. So for me, its also sometimes a fashion complement. In the winter, its also good to keep the rain off my face without having to hold an umbrella.

I like guys to wear them who have swag and look athletic

It's a compliment your friends are paying you, r98.

The point is to look like a douche.

[quote] Only on DL would a baseball cap be described as distinctly "masculine" apparel. Didn't you boys ever hear of softball-playing lesbians??

Gay men don;t pay attention to what lesbians wear.

Not all men who wear baseball caps are masculine, but wearing baseball caps is usually perceived as a masculine style

Call me a freak but as a gay man i like masculine looking guys. Baseball caps are a masculine accessory, not Gucci wallets, and duffel bags.

Like them, except for the super old ones with holes. Not cool r masc. Wash it already

Miss elderlez r91, please go sit your ass down somewhere.

There is a difference between a traditional baseball cap, what you are talking about, and flat brimmed snapbacks. These snapbacks are the current trendy accessory for young guys.

I hate that style r106. Way, way GHETTO.

Go leather:

You guys saying lesbian softball players are "masculine" aren't the same ones who are saying that gender is a social construct, are you? Let me say this again: there is no such thing as "masculine" and feminine" in that sense. If I am a woman and I do something, by definition, what I'm doing is feminine because I have a uterus, fallopian tubes, and a vagina.

I don't understand how you guys can't put together your "cutting off your penis doesn't make you a woman" argument with your "some lesbians are masculine and some gayboys are feminine." That's the whole point of the anti-trans argument: Just because a boy does something society decides is "feminine" doesn't make him a girl. That's because it's SOCIETY that's deciding the definitions of femininity and masculinity.

This is Feminism 101, guys. A baseball cap is NOT "masculine" or even male attire unless there's a place to put a penis.

Lame argument r109, replace baseball cap with a dress and see what you get. So if a straight guy wears a dress (not a kilt, I mean a full on flowery dress) its not considered feminine clothing because a mans is wearing it?

Caps are Masculine, Dresses are Feminine. Deal with it.

r107, white boys have picked up the "ghetto" trend, so you know it's on its way out

[quote]You guys saying lesbian softball players are "masculine" aren't the same ones who are saying that gender is a social construct, are you? Let me say this again: there is no such thing as "masculine" and feminine" in that sense.

R109 = Joe from Facts of Life. Ok Joe, whatever you say, dont sick Mrs Garrett on us.

Huh dude?

If only, R111. If only.

R111

I once heard a white boy talking about his "Nwords" as a synonym for "homies".

R115, it's how young dudes talk Today

I agree that a cap looks good on some guys and not others - just like any other fucking piece of clothing. I started wearing them in college. My hair is wavy, has a lot of body and needs product to look good. This being the case - it looks like a bird's nest when I wake up, after swimming, after riding in a convertible with the top down... If I don't feel like taking a shower and re-styling it - the cap works wonders. I have a beard, hairy chest and arms and by most accounts - I am quite masculine. The cap looks good on me while all other hats look terrible. I plan to wear caps forever and have zero concern about how stylish I am or am not while doing so.

Super

No guy looks good wearing superman panties. He looks like a clown.

It's the ukulele shortage, R9.

Brasil

[quote]No guy looks good wearing superman panties. He looks like a clown.

If you would kick that hot guy out of bed just because of his choice of underwear, you have issues. I am guessing you are so fat and ugly you would be luck just to sniff them.

No R122, I am in-shape, not ugly, and don't have issues. I have taste. I'm guessing you were describing yourself and projecting your insecurities and shortcomings onto me?

No R123, I was picking up on your princess like attitude about how a man should dress. I will say it again, you have issues if you judge a man by his underwear. Think about it for a while, it has nothing to do with taste. (ill give you a hint, it has nothing to do with superficial appearances that can be easily purchased)

[quote] No guy looks good wearing superman panties. He looks like a clown.

Now stop right there, mister. My ass looks great in lace Superman panties.

Chill dudes

Most guys start wearing hats when we are kids. I played Little League baseball and continued thru college. Also my Dad had season tickets to the Red Sox for years and our family still has those tickets. But it was a show of support for sports, our home team and more so a great way for boys & their Dads to bond. That's how wearing hats start for most guys...as kids. Even most bald guys will tell you they wore hats long before they were bald or worries about sun screening. It's only in more recent yrs that it's become more about a fashionable to throw a hat on. Yes it's easier to not do your hair on a lazy day and put a ball cap on. And we know that urban culture has their own spin on hats from the way they grew up too. Most of my gay friends (male and female) say they wear hats because they think it makes them look more masculine not because of any affiliation to a sports team. So everyone has different reasons for wearing hats but most guys start wearing ball caps as kids & sports fans!

I've noticed the ghetto ones seem to have some sort of a metallic sticker on them like a price tag. Also, they tend to be far more synthetic, than real ones that are cloth.

It's style and masculine swag that motivates most men to wear them.

[quote]It's style

Or the complete lack thereof.

R130, you sound cranky

Um, R24, you seem to have poor reading comprehension. I did not make any comment about how anyone "should dress" or "judge a man by his underwear." My exact post was "No guy looks good wearing superman panties. He looks like a clown." He can wear, or not wear, whatever he wishes. Makes no difference to me. I was merely posting an opinion of how silly it looks when grown men wear child-like cartoon underwear. It is silly and looks stupid. Did I make any comment about the appearance of the man himself? Nope. He looks like a hot dude who is wearing a childish costume.

You, however, implied I "must be fat and ugly" simply because I expressed an opinion about grown men wearing superman panties. Talk about princess attitude. Look in the mirror.

** R124. Pardon my typo.

Better question: why do so many young lesbians wear them?

Probably just because they like them. Not everything needs to have a specific reason. Some things just are what they are.

Bromance

Those guys @ r136 have purchased their starter packs!

Hey, it's hot

r136, why did you label that pic of two guys kissing "bromance"? Do you mean to imply they're not gay? I'm not sure how you can tell from the pic; usually if I see two guys kissing like that, I assume they're gay.

They're gay, R139.

What do you all think of this guy?

What about driver's caps? They are quite chic.

R141

If this fellow turned out to be the other guy on a blind date for me, my reaction would be, "Okay, let's see what he has to say for himself."

It makes you look like a hot masc dudebro while deep-throating fat uncut cawk man!

To look cool and athletic.

I know a lot of guys at my local sex club wear baseball caps because it hard to see their face in the dark with extreme overhead light and also hard to recognize them later in the street with a totally surprising hair line or style of cut.

That's so pitiful r146. Embarrassing

Some gay men live such hollow debauched lives

This one never gets old...

R23

Just about eveyone's type !

dssd

I'm a woman with a thick head of hair, so no bald spot to cover. I wear one when I run, garden, or drive topless (the car, not me).

I use it for the sole purpose of tucking my hair behind my ears and holding my hair off of my face. Then I immediately take it off because I think I look like an asshole.

No you dont look like an asshole R152, you look like a budding tom boy like Joe from Facts of Life. Lesbians love the baseball cap like they love a lot of masculine clothing. Its the whole weird butch Lesbian thing. Its an odd because its not mirrored on the other side with gay men. It's rare that a highly fem guy would be chased after like a prize.

Old gay men wear them because they think it hides the fact they're balding from the young tops they want to date.

Young gay men wear them because they see straight men wearing them and think it projects a masculine image.

Straight men wear them because their friends do.

Old gay men ware them because you head will burn in the sun, most guys will lose some or most of their hair as they age so it really just a practicality thing. Baseball caps are easy to wash and cheap to replace. Fancy hats are not. Quit projecting your daddy fantasies onto older man.

My roommate wears them coz his hair is greasy, hasn't washed or showered and needs to go out for errands etc. He hides his dirty unwashed hair in baseball cap.

Christ, you people are tiresome.

Uh okay dude

I feel the same R157.

I"m tempted the ditch this collection elderly, shrill queens and start reading the askgaybros on Reddit.

And before you old corpses tell me 'don't let the door hit of the way out', that phrase passed out of popularity by the mid 80's.

Our society exalts and emulates athlete, including baseball players. People even wear jerseys to the grocery store these days.

People here tend to be especially out of touch with mainstream society and culture

Because it's associated with jocks and sports

I have a couple i wear on occasion for either to help keep sun out of my eyes or to hide bed head when i'm running some errands or getting some coffee and didn't take the time to shower in the morning on weekends.

They carry them around to poop in so they don't have to use the bathroom with trannies.

I wore mine when my hair was longer and a pain in the ass to to look decent and needed to get somewhere or do something without wasting time on my hair. Now I have shorter hair I never wear it since I don't have anything much to do to fix my hair.

This works for all men, of all ages.

Makes hot dudes even hotter

Boom

I like them backward

Bros4Bros

Jock

I love it how masculine dudes wear them doing sex to show how jockish they are

It's about popular masculinity

The truth is most of the time when you have a cap on and sex happens you really just don't think about it and hit it. If some find that hot great but i rarely even remember that's one if it comes down to hitting it.

They are hot, but it has become so mainstream now. Im ready for everyone to loose their beards and hats so we can see how they REALLY look

That dude is so hot

Whenever I see a grown man wearing a baseball cap indoors or at night, I assume he is bald.

Not always r177. It's just some guys thing and they don't even think about it. My best friend has his cap on all the time and he has nothing to hide with his hair. It's just his thing. Kinda his security blanket for some reason. The running joke is when i do see him without one on is who the hell are you.

Straight guys wear them because it makes them feel like they are part of the team with the other straight guys that cannot give up their obsession with watching other men live out their dreams on a baseball field while they sit in a chair on the sidelines and drink beer and get older and fatter.

What's wrong with that? And lots of bi and gay dudes wear them too

To the back is so 90s

Maybe, but many young dudes wear it backward today. They tend to also be hot

Any dermatologist will tell you a hat will help prevent skin cancer especially if you're bald or have thinning hair. If the brim is worn in the front, it also helps to shield your face from the effects of sun damage.

The hope is to look like this

Jeez, dont any of you twinks know the difference between fashion terms you are so obsessed with other people breaking? There are Fads, Trends, and Classics. Fads come and go, Trends are a general movement, classics are always in style. A black suite is a classic as are jeans, t-shirts and a baseball cap.

The only look that will be dated is the turned to the side look with the square top. The white kids who think they are being cool black dudes.

Damn damn damn

it's for the cool kids and bros

Bae!

I buzzed my head a few months ago. I'm growing it out right now and have been wearing a baseball cap until it gets a little longer.

Y'all kill me trying to give utilitarian justifications for Wearing friggin baseball caps, which are worn by most young abs youngish males. They wear them because they think they are cool and part of the expected male look.

Time for a comeback.

I honestly assess that 80%+ of the men that I know (young or old, hot or not, thick hair or bald) wear caps. It isn't a trend or a movement -it's an institution.

yeah, it's just part of being a dude

Dalton

[quote]What's the point of a baseball cap?

To attract other dudebros. Duh.

Yep it's a hot Dudebro accessory

[quote]Any dermatologist will tell you a hat will help prevent skin cancer especially if you're bald or have thinning hair. If the brim is worn in the front, it also helps to shield your face from the effects of sun damage.

Most guys wearing them are not doing so for those reasons.

Exactly. Only people on DL are wearing hats for such lame reasons. Everyone else does it for the style, because it's the popular thing to do, or to represent their sports teams or colleges.

It's an all-American bro look

Please wash the bald spot cozies. They get disgusting after a while.

Anyone ever notice the line of head grease on subway windows?

It's a hot look

[quote]A young of people judge male swag by how a guy wears a baseball cap. It communicates an attitude.

little children all have their games, i suppose

Dragos

take the hat off

I have a few hats I rotate through for my favorite teams. What New Yorker, gay, straight, male or female doesn't own a Yankees or Mets hat?

It's not about covering up bald spots- you sound old. I'm young and have great hair. A hat is just part of the ensemble. Extra hot when a guy turns his hat backwards while giving you a blowjob.

Baes

For people playing baseball it's to keep the sun out of their eyes. For dudebros it's a fashion and/or bad hair statement.

So hot

R208 I assume he didn't comb his hair under that cap

No it's part of the hot Dudebro uniform

Baseball caps are only worn when playing baseball. Worn anywhere else, they're prole caps and are a devastating indicator of socioeconomic background.

Swag

So hot

To look this hot

It's a badge, a calling card of masculinity, of testosterone, of athletic prowess. If guys could wear a jockstrap on their heads in public, they would.

It's a wannabe hot dudebro uniform

Damn

I wear one pretty much only if I'm going outside the house and haven't washed my hair. My hair is too unruly to be seen in public once I've slept on it. What do you anti cap people do in that situation? You can't tell me you NEVER leave the house without showering...if you don't need a cap, you must have no hair.

To attempt to look like this

Or this

Hottt

Alpha

To look hot and masculine

Dermatologist demands we wear the hat in the sun, otherwise he is cutting little black things off out bare scalps.

Melania .. er.. melanoma

To demonstrate one's douchitude.

What is the point? It is simply a clothing accessory for many men. Compared to women we have very few accessories you know. This is such an odd question...

I do it to irritate guys who don't like ball caps.

I believe you, R227.

I'm bald and insecure about it.

You can hide yourself with a basebalcap and sunglasses . No one recognizes you .

Sometimes I wear them because I dont feel like combing my hair. Other times it is just part of my attire. I have 11 of them and 2 that I use for things like yardwork, etc.

douchebag bona fides

It's to be ready for pickup baseball games wherever you stumble upon them.

Sometimes you just don't feel like styling your hair

Op sounds so out of touch

I played baseball and softball when I was younger, and yes, we wore baseball caps, since you were expected to be a trooper, and you might be playing in the rain (you wouldn't call a game for rain, unless there was lightning) and you needed to shield your eyes from the rain, or when it was sunny, you work it forwards or backwards depending on the angle of the sun. They're very practical, and now that I'm older and don't play sports, I wouldn't mind owning one now for the rare times I need to leave the house when I haven't washed my hair. I just haven't come across one I wouldn't be embarrassed to wear.

I wear them to hide my beautiful face. It can be exhausting to have people constantly giving you unwanted attention.

The goal is to look like this.

Right, r239. If only.

r241 Laugh of the week.

Uh whatever

Sexy

Duh. To allow femme guys to appear masc in their Grindr profile shots.

Keeps the sun and your hair out of your face.

That recent big Gayface study recently found that wearing baseball caps was one of the ways people identified heterosexual men. Openly Gay men were much less likely to wear baseball caps Than other males.

I have a bald spot, and I'm not trying to hide it when i wear a baseball cap: I have to wear something so the top of my head doesn't get sunburned or sun-damaged. Also, I like having a visor to shield my eyes.

Don't like it? Too bad for you!

I think some of those who dislike it here rag on it because they associate with the hot jocks they could never have or hang with. Harsh but true.

I think it’s an attractive way to enhance masculinity and athleticism.

For when you don’t feel like doing your hair, or for a windy day to keep your hair from going all over the place, or to hold in sweat when being active.

I wear a cap when I’m too lazy to style my hair and the sun turns it a reddish brown in the summer.

A lot of guys I see either wear caps or shave their heads. They also wear t-shirts with baggy, long shorts.

Baseball cap? A turban goes better with caftan and earrings.

Mike O'Malley was hot wearing one. Not so hot with his bald look.

i wear one when I have to leave the house, but haven't taken a shower.

To make you look like a douchebag.

Eddie the Trainer at R250 is hot and all, but not sure he needs to wear the ball cap inside the gym.

Uh, that’s what dudes do r258.

[quote]enhance athleticism.

Certainly, it enhances the public perception of masculinity and identification with sports. It’s associative

Wasn't the original reason they were worn backwards was so that the brim wouldn't be in the way for blowjobs?

True or not, I've mentioned that to some straight men wearing them backwards and enjoyed their squirming.

Studies have shown that people perceive men wearing baseball caps as more masculine.

Some fat old American dude was hanging around the orphanage a few years ago trying to hand out red baseball caps with the word "MAGA" on the cap. I heard him say something about "a photo op with a bunch of dirty little orphans."

Sister Mary Agony told him to leave this holy ground or she would grind his balls into paste, so he left. I didn't care, I don't look good in red anyway.

I used to find guys who wore baseball caps backwards to be arrogant now I find the look HOT.

Yes America, that's me @ r264, but you probably already knew that.

Feel free to send me a floppu, wide brimmed cooling hat in light or medium blue. I could really use one to prevent sunburn when I'm out in the hot sun gathering stones for soup.

😘 Love you guys !

Yes, a hot dude in a baseball Cap is even hotter 🧢

Jock vibe

To look cool, masculine, and athletic

[quote]As they shielding themselves from the sun?

Yes.

[quote]Are the covering up their uncombed hair?

Yes, one or the other.

Are you new to the planet? Do you need anything else explained to you?

Gramps is confused

What even are hats???

I only wear a ball cap when I have bed head, or a really windy day, it keeps my hair from blowing all over and looking like shit.

The absolute most hilarious is, in Southern California, you see guys at the gym working out wearing KNIT SKI CAPS!!! It's 80 degrees outside and they're wearing a knit winter hat, just to look fashionable!

We call them “beanies” or “skullies.” It’s a dude thing.

It’s interesting, I have fallen down the rabbit hole of Chaturbate this summer and by far two fan favorites are these two, for the most part, ordinary looking mid America dad guys who both wear ball caps, but seem to have ravenous followers. The interesting thing is that it’s not just gay men who worship at their alters when them come on, but also straight guys who elevate these two to god like levels.

Not their full handles, but one is golfman and the other is markymark. I really think it’s their baseball caps that some how make them captivating and objects of fetishnistic admiration. Golfman plays cool detached dudebro who is looking to flash trade with any of the few girls on cam who wander into his room. He gets the eager men to go to her room and tip to talk her into flashing her breasts or something else.

He will then reciprocate by lifting his shirt up exposing his chest, opening his shorts, pulling down his madras boxers and showing dick for about 30 seconds with the most natural bush I’ve seen since the 70s.

He accepts tips, but rarely acknowledges them or even admonishes those guys who give them. He seems to ignore the overwhelming and over the top sexually charged fawning compliments about how hot he is, what an amazing body/dick he has and what an excellent fucker he must be. Yet, you can tell he’s subtlety getting off on it. And again, many of those come from self confessed straight guys, who say they never look at other guys, but that there is something special about him, true bromance.

Markymark is on the silent side too, but much more willing to play and has a menu of items he will do accordingly including suck a dildo and finger his hole. He broadcasts from his man cave with sports paraphernalia on the walls and rarely will be without his cap, even when naked, and many times backwards. He, even more than golfman, are the most ordinary of looking men, but it’s like those ball caps give them magical powers to seduce even straight guys. And the viewers go absolutely ballistic for them.

In all Chaturbate is the most intriguing of sociological experiments and I find myself captivated by watching the models and how people interact with them. I will say that there are some pretty cool and amazing straight guys, who as a group never held that much interest to me before, but I’ve grown to enjoy interacting with them.

A hot athletic dude in a backward cap is the hottest thing

Not surprising that baseball caps would be a fetish object for some of the under 40 (or so) set -- caps are heavily associated with pretty well all the virile young male social scenes, since the 90s and the rise of hip hop culture. Other end of the spectrum, they're associated with hot redneck guys, too. They suggest a sort of insouciant, casual, confident masculinity, through the cultural associations that have buil;t up around them for decades, even going back to pre-1970s, when they were associated with actual baseball heroes.

You can find markymark and golfman on big image search -- wow, they're both the definition of "average straight guy".

Weird little postmodern enigma there, thanks r276 for drawing attention to it.

Yeah it’s jock wear

easier for the douche bros to recognize their fellow assholes in restaurants

2017 gay face study: "Additionally, consistent with the association between baseball caps and masculinity in American culture, heterosexual men and lesbians tended to wear baseball caps."

According to the researchers, the study has exposed a potential threat to the privacy and safety of gay men and women around the world, as governments and corporations are already developing and deploying facial recognition technologies designed to predict things like the likelihood of committing a crime or being a paedophile.“

I love this look

Red

To look hot

I wear them on four occasions:

If its really cold out (I have a full head of hair, but keep it very short) When I have the top down on the car, and want to shield my eyes and face from the sun When I play tennis or golf If I run out of the house for something, and haven't taken a shower or washed my hair

Eh, I have a few caps. I gotta say one of my favorite types of amateur porn is when a guy, especially a bottom, is wearing a baseball hat.

Men needs hats. Other kinds are out of style, sadly

I wear a baseball cap on the days when my hair looks like shit. It's a quick fix.

Red

When men are balding

R291, most young dudes wearing caps are not balding

Even while working out

Men who wear baseball caps feel it makes them look more masculine and macho

None of the gays who wear them are anywhere near real jocks. No matter how fit they may be, few can actually throw a baseball

"What's the point of a baseball cap?"

It's called a bill, not a point.

Face it, this is the answer you deserved.

Brandon Cody

If I wasn’t engaged to someone on another thread, I’d propose to r296.

I wear a hat because I’m losing my hair and got sunburned a few times. Also, have an ugly shaped head that my hair no loner covers. I take it off as soon as I get home. Prefer wearing a flat hat in the winter.

*loner longer

It’s the hot bro “look.”

Sexy AF

Baseball caps don't have points. I bet the OP's cap is cone shaped.

Really? Someone had to bump this AGAIN? It's really becoming dull around here again!

Really? Someone had to bump this AGAIN? It's really becoming dull around here again!

Rowing Blazers has funny ones.

Not for deplorables.

Such a hot look

My reason for wearing a baseball cap is to shield my eyes from the sun.

I do not wear a baseball cap at night unless it is raining as I wear prescription glasses and don’t want to get raindrops on the lenses.

Avoid getting sunburned. Not bald, but light skin/hair, live in a sunny region. Keeps sun out of my eyes, rain off the glasses. And, occasionally, I'm just too fucking lazy to deal with my hair. Never wear a hat of any sort indoors, though.

Okay did OP direct this question toward elderly men? The answers here are not indicative of why most mainstream young guys wear caps

I don't wear em as a general rule. Oh no I'm in my 50's and still have a full head of hair. When it gets longer as it is now because I'm going nowhere near a hair salon, it gets curly/wavy.

Another thing I've noticed is guys wearing those toques - I assume it's to cover messy hair. Hair isn't fun to take care of btw.

What's the point of a tie? To make you feel like you're about to choke all day?

I think all of it's just fashion, like long painted fingernails on women (ugh)

To look hot

Poor YMF.

As a man with a bald spot, I can say I sometimes wear mine to protect myself from the sun--with a bald spot, I need to avoid sunburn.

Sweet Sweat

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R317, take your meds, dude

Masculine identity

Hot look

The kweens who wear a baseball cap to look all masculine might as wear wear pink Fascinators for all the good it does. Because they're fooling only themselves.

I dunno. It tends to enhance masculinity. A guy will look more masculine in a baseball cap than he will without one, but it’s just one piece of the puzzle to exuding masculinity. Wearing a baseball cap won’t extinguish other characteristics, just enhance whatever else is masculine about the person

The ones I don't get are the ones who wear them backwards, especially tennis players who are always in the sun - isn't that defeating the point? But if it's because they're balding, okay.. maybe tell them that balding is an indicator of higher testosterone though.

I don't know why but when I see a guy walking around in a bar or bathhouse even wearing a cap- it makes me more attracted to them.

It’s the association with athleticism and masculinity

Don’t wanna be bothered

It signals you are a bro

It’s an attitude

Hot look

Men should wear whatever they want on their heads, regardless of what some fag on DL thinks. Nobody needs to justify their clothing or accessories to anyone.

Sexy, masculine, and athletic

Some people just like the way they look.

Yes, some people (including me) wear them to cover up messy hair. Or balding or baldness, and that extends to looking younger. A lot of people look younger when they cover up their hair/hairline.

Some (not including me) wear branded ones to broadcast their sports cult or a designer brand—Gucci sells baseball caps for $300-$400.

And again, some just like the way they look. Everything clotheswise is not utilitarian, and especially accessories. Tophats and bolero hats were worn for style. Wigs are worn to cover baldness or messy hair. Rings are worn to show wealth, marital status or just for style. Necklaces are worn to show wealth, style or religious tribal membership. Fake fingernails and eyelashes have no practical use. People wear scarves to stay warm or just for 'flair.' Shoes can be made for function or they can inhibit function for the sake of style. I don't know why a baseball cap needs to be the one accessory that should be exclusively worn for function.

I can quickly list 10 reasons men wear baseball caps. What a pity that OP is an idiot. A good troll in 2016, though.

Let's talk about Madonna's denture reinforcers.

It’s a male vibe

[quote]As they shielding themselves from the sun?

Yes. Baseball caps have front brims that extend far past the face. This provides effective shade from sunlight for the eyes. Caps with shorter brims aren't effective shade providers.

[quote]Are the covering up their uncombed hair?

Also yes. Baseball caps are usually adjustable and can accommodate unkempt hair easily. Since, as fashion, they are considered very casual "streetwear," they help pull together an acceptable outfit for appearing in public while not fully groomed.

As others have noted, they are also effective for covering bald heads, and hiding baldness. As both athletic gear and a fashion accessory associated with youth, they can provide an illusion of virility and strength that some believe offsets signs of aging and diminished physical capacity.

Baseball caps are headwear that provide protection from the elements (sunlight in this case) and an acceptable head covering that may serve many different functions for different wearers in different circumstances. As such, they're no different than any other head covering.

Have we answered all of your questions, OP? Is there anything else we can help you with?

I'll just leave this here...

OP is being obtuse

I always found it laughable how Tony Orlando and others of his desperate little ilk wore FDNY or NY baseball caps in their post 9/11 interviews that had nothing to do with 9/11 (they had nothing to promote so they created some shit and bugged media to interview them so they could show their hollow support without having contributed one dime to any relief fund or any profit from their shit product to any relief fund). Virtue signalling at its most revolting.

Virtue signaling? No, I think it’s more of a show of support

Fan

Backward hover

I'm bald. I wear them. Every one knows I'm bald.

Baseball caps are to prevent men like my dad from wearing a rolled up brown paper bag on their head when they mow the lawn or do other yard work.

Yes, I shared this bit of embarrassment in another tread.

You turn it back to front when giving a blow job.

Essential for the bro Image

When worn backwards it signifies to possible mates that he is a bottom

R1, maybe they don't want skin cancer.

Hate umbrellas. Wear a baseball cap in the rain.