Baseball Caps

The hats that don't have the hole on the backside are so ugly. When person wear them flipped backwards, they look like a thumb.

Written by Rich Juzwiak, an exhausting navel gazing queen.

Juzwiak? Oh no honey, we don’t do her here.

"Look at me! I'm very close to being straight" -- the language of baseball caps

Men, gay or straight, wear ball caps for one of two reasons: Their hair looks like shit, or they are going bald.

2017 study on recognition of sexuality by facial structure: "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.

So, yes, gay men are statistically less likely to wear baseball caps than nongay dudes. Facts

[quote] corporations are already developing and deploying facial recognition technologies designed to predict things like the likelihood of committing a crime or being a paedophile.

How can facial recognition predict the likelihood or a crime or being a pedo? It can see if there are known criminals or pedos in the crowd, but there's nothing about general facial structure that points to being either.

Cute.

Facial structure is correlated with propensity to commit violent crime. As is neck thickness, whether one wears glasses. Testosterone has consequences

It connotes all American masculinity and bro-ness.

I cannot wear a baseball cap. It makes me feel as if I'm Donald Trump.

Yup.

What R5 said.

This queen - and too many gay men - loves to overanalyze every last thing. Sometimes a cap is just a cap. Some of us have ugly heads, or fiveheads, or are denying the reality of their hair loss, or have a bad day, or want to shield their eyes from the sun, or....

Not everything is about your (in)ability to get dick.

Red caps might trigger the pedo-alert system described earlier.

my head structure does not allow me to wear any type of hat without looking ridiculous

You may think so, r17, we don’t.

You look hot in a fedora.

Sometime it's just to keep the sun out of your eyes.

This seems massively overthought.

Straight men also wear them in the belief that it makes them appear more masculine.

I just want one so that I don't have to tame my Covid bedhead. (Getting a bit warm for a toque, which I've also managed to lose.)

I love it how urban culture values “fitted caps.”

R21, is correct. Most American men want to fit in with the bro fraternity. Baseball caps are a key competent of the American male image. Not everyone wearing caps is consciously trying to appear cool, but it I’d just inherent in our culture

Any women wear caps to seem cool and athletic

Even women

^ When I can find one.

He's someone I hope the COVID takes out.

Been wearing a baseball cap for years to hide bedhead. Always a fitted cap. Also, the only times you are allowed to wear a baseball cap backwards is if you're riding a bicycle without a helmet (otherwise the bill catches the breeze and the cap flies off) or if you're a catcher in Major League Baseball. Otherwise, you look like a try-hard fratbro.

[quote] Also, the only times you are allowed to wear a baseball cap backwards is if you're riding a bicycle without a helmet (otherwise the bill catches the breeze and the cap flies off) or if you're a catcher in Major League Baseball.

Or if you’re giving head.

This is the hat I wear when I want to pick up men.

Why didn’t you get the big one, r31?

Ball caps worn backwards by mascbros in pron are the living end!

Juzwiak is too young and self centered to really know anything about gay history and culture.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman debuted in January of 1975 or 76. All the fraus fell in love with Sgt. Foley but all the gay boys swooned over Mary's husband Tom. That summer on Fire Island, half the guys were wearing baseball caps and team jackets, Tom's signature look. That look had never been a thing before for gays before but it is classic and has never gone completely away.

R34, who cares. This is now

^ that guy looks like a creep.

R34 is goofy, not hot

I think a ball cap on a guy is quite sexy. Until, that is, they turn it around backwards. Then they look like complete morons with limited intelligence.

[quote]"Look at me! I'm very close to being straight" -- the language of baseball caps

Bullshit. Whenever I wear a cap, it’s because I’m too lazy to do my hair, not because I think it makes me look straight.🙄

I wear one when I need a haircut (like I desperately need NOW).

And I did play high school baseball...

[quote] And I did play high school baseball...

I played high school football. Scored four touchdowns in a single game.

To be fair, straight men also think baseball caps make them seem more masculine.

Of course. And most people perceive guys wearing baseball caps as more masculine and athletic

Role play doesn’t count as playing football.

"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." Yeah, this makes zero sense

Don't know about men, but if a woman, especially younger one, wears a hat backwards, there's a 98% chance she is gay

Oh, honey. OP, gays have been wearing baseball caps to convey masculinity for a lot more than eight years.

Just ask the prole cap troll.

Honey, didn’t say that the trend started in 2012.

R46, not in 2020. Where do you live?

R34 No cares about Fire Island and NYC, we are all tired of the NYC shit ALL THE TIME as if that is the only thing that matters.

New York New York cocktails cocktails hat hat Broadway look at me I’m in NYC NYC sweetie sweetie

You can leave your hat on.

Looks good wearing a baseball cap backwards.

He's got the look.

Very sexy.

R55 Model Shane Smith.

Shane again.

What if the baseball cap is pink?

Are caps still a thing in gay bars? I know they used to be but BC (Before Covid) I don't recall seeing many gay guys wearing them. I love them, myself. Guys look so hot in baseball caps.

Next BS article will be how gay men wearing caftans conveys masculinity.

I never wear hats unless it's winter then I use a knit toque. There have been times I've contemplated borrowing one of my dad's baseball caps for one reason alone - my hear looks like shit and I'm too lazy to wash it when I just need to run out for groceries or gas. My dad loves hats; he's also balding.

Yeah, a goodlooking and athletic dude looks even hotter in a baseball cap. It just enhances natural masculinity.

RIVETING.

riveter

Often wearing a cap looks hetero. Wearing a backwards cap looks QUEER.

So hot

it starts as soon as they come out of the womb . . .

Lots of men wear caps, obviously more straighties than gay men. Some over analysing here.

Only here would people think wearing baseball caps is something strange or noteworthy. You would have to live in a cave not to understand how normal it is. Even in Middle Eastern countries, I see lots of dudes wearing baseball caps.

You’re wrong, the gay dudes in the Middle East are wearing turbans.

Hot Arab

Very handsome R71.

Hot look

He looks like he’s frozen or has bowel issues or something...I don’t know, something’s off. You can tell he’s gay by the way the cap looks on him, a straight man who would wear that cap would look more rugged and outdoorsy.

He’s straight

I sometimes wear a baseball cap, turned forward, to keep the sun out of my eyes.

Y’all are so old. Most young dudes wear them to look cool (or hot) and athletic.

They could be the new 'hankies': yellow for "into watersports", etc.

I wear a hat so my bald head doesn’t get burnt to a crisp.

The elderly crowd at DL wear them For a different reason than Gen Z

[quote]turned backwards means oral

New?!?

An older man wearing a baseball cap is pretty much the perviest look ever. Especially if it’s red.

R82 haha!!!!!

Oh that’s just so untrue.

Sometimes a ball cap is just a ballcap. I'm getting images in my head of Marcel Duchamp's pipe now.

why especially if it's red? red caps are cute.

I bet you guys think he’s hot. Look at his masc masc baseball cap ooooooo. “I’m a director, so I wear a cap alllll the time”

[R86] Not sure if I can answer your question, but for some reason, red caps lend a creepy quality to a gentleman. Especially if it’s a plain red or RL cap.

Nope, he’s cutish. Baseball caps don’t transform unhot dudes into hot dudes. They just enhance preexistingly hot dudes into even hotter dudes.

[quote]The hats that don't have the hole on the backside are so ugly.

R1 Those caps (not 'hats') are expensive because they-size with they're actually sized as opposed to the cheaper 1-size with the adjustable plastic slider.

Great look

R88 is typing nonsense. There is nothing “creepy” about this.

Not creepy

[R92] the logo makes a difference, but the meticulously trimmed “beard” and everything else says HOMOSEXUAL. In other words hot in a flaming gay way, not in an effortless straight way. She’s working really hard for that photo.

[R93] that’s just ghetto. Remember, we’re talking about baseball caps that gay men wear.

The cap is the only thing NOT creepy at r92

[R93] would say “I wanna get which you, lemme show you what I got in the showers ooooooo”

Huh?

[R98] lives in an all white world. You should visit a non-gay area of a city at some point.

I’m black

Sure, Jan. Prove it.

What a look!

Matt Kemp

Corey Feldman

Red hot

Michael Jackson. He is definitely not molesting that child, you can tell because he’s wearing that cap.

Sizzling

Sizzling, in a gay way. I’m imagining an old queen pulling up in his corvette to ask him for directions.

Schmokin’

An eldergay once told me that closet cases like, or liked, to wear them while cruising so they could hide their faces quickly when they recognized someone or notice someone taking pictures or filming them.

R110 there’s a great scene in the South Park movie where Cartman meets a guy from the internet for gay sex down at the pier - unwittingly - who turns out to be his teacher wearing a Yankees cap. Haven’t seen it since I was about 10 but that’s always stuck with me

How about a sexy guy wearing a cowboy hat?

Cowboy hats are hotter than baseball caps, but the only guys I see wearing them around here are fat, old Republicans and county sheriffs who seem to think they're living out west somewhere.

Cowboy hats --- unless you're an actual cowboy or farmhand -- are beyond stupid.

Cowboy hat.

Straight ONLY.

STR8.

Straight:

Straight ONLY:

HETERO:

All the gays should wear hats like this. None of that MASC shit.

GAY:

R116 and r118 seem like down-to-earth guys

I meant r119

I mean r119, not 118, though he looks nice too

I look good in hats so suck my big gay dick.

R122, a baseball cap won’t make an effeminate guy seem masculine, unless the effeminate guy is just gonna walk buy and stay silent and never make more than a passing, superficial guy. When an effeminate guy starts talking or displaying mannerisms, his nature will make a bigger impression than the baseball cap. A guy talking and acting camp or girly will still seem fem wearing a baseball cap.

You’re forgetting that gay men tend to over-groom, so it doesn’t matter how masculine they are.

Not the ones I hang with

Kaden is all that

You have to have the head and attitude for it

No logo really adds to the fem vibe, kind of Kyle Krieger look.

Roger wears one now and then, this one is red (of course).

[quote] unless the effeminate guy is just gonna walk buy and stay silent and never make more than a passing, superficial guy.

Come again.

unless the effeminate guy is just gonna walk by and stay silent and never make more than a passing, superficial impression...

I wear them. I'm tired of them. What can I wear instead? I don't need to look any more masculine than I already do.

I have a punkinhead.

Personally I am more of a Beanie person.

Like this?

Complements his hotness

My goodness, there are a lot of handsome young men out there nowadays

I recently had to go down to my storage unit and get a bag of baseball caps out, because....COVID hair situation.

Whenever I see a guy wearing a baseball cap in public (outside of a sporting event) I think: "Is he going bald? And he's embarrassed to show it?" The baseball cap makes me think he is insecure about his baldness.

Whenever I see a guy wearing a baseball cap backwards on his head in public, I think: "Is he a douche? A going-bald douche? Probably."

Whenever I see someone asking himself questions and answering them, I think: "Is he schizophrenic?"

Oh wait, you were just doing it inside your own head. I guess that's ok then. But you know what I'm talking about....those crazy people screaming at imaginary people on the street.

Thanks, R143, you cheeky. ;)

“ Whenever I see a guy wearing a baseball cap in public (outside of a sporting event) I think: "Is he going bald? And he's embarrassed to show it?" The baseball cap makes me think he is insecure about his baldness.

Whenever I see a guy wearing a baseball cap backwards on his head in public, I think: "Is he a douche? A going-bald douche? Probably."

You type really old.

Baseball cap-wearing seems kind of normal nowadays

It’s widely popular

And the baseball cap style has all kinds of logos and statements on them, not just baseball teams. It's the new fedora or whatever. Men like to wear hats, i think it's that simple.

Yeah, but athletic team baseball caps (all team sports) are by far the most popular.

Whenever I see a gay man wearing a team baseball cap, I wonder, is it for fashion or because he is actually a fan? No need to ask that...it’s for fashion. Duh!

What is it with fat bears and straw fedoras?

R150, Dont say dumb stuff

What are those stickers some hats have on their bills? I always think someone forgot to take off a tag.

It’s part of the urban and hip hop style

It has to do with having a “fresh,” cool look. It always flashes the authenticity of the hat.

It means you are descended from Minnie Pearl.

Okay

Whenever I see a gay man listening to Cher or Ariana, I wonder, is it a femme thing or is he actually a fan? No need to ask... duh. It's a femme thing.

Nice bro

Baseball cap and makeup?

Why is it so hard for you to admit that your baseball cap is just fashion/drag? This is Datalounge, you can be real here.

The guy at r158 is hot, so I scoped his IG.

Almost every pic he’s in a hat. Lol.

Why is there a bible quote reference in his profile? Is it the one about homosexuals?

I wear baseball cap types of hats - but not necessarily designating a specific baseball team. Why? A few reasons:

1) Keeps the hot sun off my head and face 2) Bad hair day or needs a cut 3) I can't be bothered to wash or even style my hair 4) It tends to make you look younger

And with lockdown, my hair is a fucking mess. Every time I leave the house, know that a baseball cap is going on my head.

I'm doing all of you a FAVOR.

I’m hiding my nasty hair from all of you, look how young I look! You’re welcome!

Ooh hot daddy. Call me.

R164 - I guarantee that guy in your pic (who is hot for an older man) looks much better than with a bald head or with a white crown of hair.

He's fuckable even though he's probably around 70!

This look drives me wild bro

Dear Nathan Webb Troll,

This thread is about gay men wearing baseball caps, not straight men who read the Bible wearing baseball caps.

thx,

OP

A Huge percentage of people have Bible quotes in their profiles. Ephesians 6:11 says “ Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes”. It’s a Very popular verse.

Reading the Bible, and quoting it, is for losers who think the devil is real.

Let’s talk about fat bears and straw hats. Let’s also talk about fat men that wear fedoras with buttons on them.

R170,🙄🙄🙄

GayGringo

R173 yum! Fuck yes

mike Rowe wore one well.

Yes, because he’s straight. Again, this thread is about GAY men wearing baseball caps.

[R173] what are those dots on his side? Is that a tattoo?

R176 ok.

R177 most likely either moles or Seborrheic Keratosis.

Is that contagious?

no it's a common skin growth

Why doesn’t he get that removed?

It's a (very common) birds tattoo, gramps

The other guy said it’s a skin thing. Nothing grandpa about noticing that.

Aren’t we supposed to be talking about hats?

R183 is an idiot troll.

Here you go moron

Thanks idiot cunt troll R186. Congratulations on being "right" and proving it with a link. You must be so proud of your immense accomplishment. Now kindly move it along, toots.

oops my hat fell off

Cap back on

Bump

And by all means wear your cap with the sticker still on it....

Yes, a perfectly placed crisp baseball cap on a gay looks like a new purse. But the purposely distressed ones also look a bit staged. It really depends on the guy. You can tell when they grew up wearing them and to me that is the qualifier.

I don't really agree with you R166. The guy in R164 is a try-hard. He would look better with the cap off because the necklace and the hoodie are desperate enough. Confidence is what is attractive. Trying to look like you just left a Phish concert at his age does not demonstrate confidence. If you are wearing the cap to look younger or hide the hair loss, everybody knows. It is betrayed by your own expression of needing approval and dreading the moment when the cap comes off.

"Didn't have time to style it"

Now you could wear a fishnet adjustable with a Bass Pro Shops logo on it and everybody would still know you don't like fish.

[quote]Trying to look like you just left a Phish concert at his age

What if he did? He's in the right age group for deadheads and Phishheads aren't too far behind. Never understood why anyone gives a shit about what someone else wears - or why. Worry about yourself.

R193 - Dude, the whole discussion is about what someone else wears. If I saw him on the street I wouldn’t bother to notice.

Caps are so prevalent now, across all ages and social brackets, that I don't think they are really trying to say anything anymore

Back in the day I hooked up with someone and he pulled a construction helmet from under his bed and asked me to put it on.

I declined because it seemed ridiculous.

Hilarious

for r191

I would have SO put on the hard hat. In fact, I’m going to go by and get mine back from my bud.

R196 here. I could tell he was a little disappointed about the hard hat situation. But I had him on his back with his legs up and I wanted to get down to business.

As we were getting dressed, I said I was a little bit hungry so he made me a cheese sandwich with a slice of American cheese in it and put it in a sandwich baggie. And then I left.

As I was walking down the sidewalk eating my cheese sandwich I thought "Hmm, I had a pretty good night. Tore up some ass and got a free sandwich"

Obviously, alcohol was involved.