Re: USAGE: Language revival

tb0pwd1@corn.cso.niu.edu writes:
>Nope, it's metonymic (is that the right term?).  In the American South a=
nd
>Midwest, this type of shirt is popular among the working class -- for wh=
at
>reasons, I don't know -- and therefore, since it is popular among workin=
g
>class people, and there is the stereotype of the brutal, sexist, and
>violent working class male who, it is assumed, beats his wife (I said
>it was a stereotype, not true) . . . since wife-beaters wear the shirt,
>the shirt is a wifebeater.

My Assumption is the term was made up by someone after watching many
episodes of COPS (an American TV show). I've noticed that whenever the
police on the show go to a call about a domestic disturbance (husband
hitting wife, etc), the men on the show (and this is usually at night)
show up to the door in their undershirts.=20

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