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" I don&amp;#039;t know when everybody around me started hating on boxers, but by my late 20s, the hatred has come to full and disturbing flower. Bro-y, people call them. Unsexy. Immature. Gross fabric drapes for your balls to hang loosely behind. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re just so high school,&amp;quot; said my editor when I pitched her this piece, and then I hit her. Just kidding! I didn&amp;#039;t hit her. She&amp;#039;s wrong, though: Boxers are my personal male underwear preference. Hear me out. It&amp;#039;s not for aesthetic reasons, although I do think boxers are cute. It&amp;#039;s because the choice says something about the guy. Specifically, that he&amp;#039;s not vain enough to pick underwear that flatters his ass.   My ex of a couple years wore boxers when we started dating. Towards the end of our relationship, he changed to briefs. We all know that&amp;#039;s huge \u2014 it&amp;#039;s the male equivalent of a girl going through something emotionally fraught like a breakup and suddenly getting bangs, and everyone&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;Did you see Amanda got bangs? I&amp;#039;m kind of worried about her.&amp;quot;   His underwear change also came with new hipster glasses, rain galoshes that I am 99 percent sure were made for women, and an air of physical superiority. On the street, he began to look at himself in reflections of buildings more frequently than I did. It felt like I, Freddie Prinze, Jr., had given him, Rachel Leigh Cook, the key to physical self-confidence, but at the end of the movie she ends up thinking she&amp;#039;s way hotter than he is and starts treating him like shit. He was a whole new man! And that man kind of sucked! We broke up shortly afterward. I&amp;#039;m not saying I ended a relationship because my partner switched from boxers to briefs: I&amp;#039;m just saying that the switch was indicative of him changing, and I wasn&amp;#039;t into his new briefs-wearing persona.   Unlike women, who switch underwear cuts on a whim depending on whether they are going to spin class or getting laid or feel fat that day, men generally choose their style and stick with it. It is my personal theory that the tighter the dude&amp;#039;s underwear, the hotter shit he thinks he is. Boxer briefs are tolerable, but briefs are a red flag that the guy&amp;#039;s full of himself. No studies have been done on this (Why?), but I am willing to bet that a higher percentage of male briefs-wearers get their eyebrows waxed and shop at Armani Exchange and own Speedos than male boxers-wearers. So yeah, if you like dating arrogant, vaguely metrosexual men, go briefs.   Boxers, on the other hand, are the mark of a guy who truly doesn&amp;#039;t give a shit what he&amp;#039;s wearing. Maybe I always end up with boxer-wearing guys because they are a &amp;quot;type&amp;quot; too \u2014 not immature or bro-y or sloppy, just low key guys&amp;#039; guys who play video games and like sports, and use humor as a defense mechanism, and still feel sort of like the loser they were in high school. Which is perfect, because I kind of still feel like the loser I was in high school! Incidentally, boxers are also favored by huskies, another subsection of American male that I am particularly fond of.   In conclusion, boxers-wearing men, never let a woman try to talk you into anything else. She does not deserve your baggy, seventh grade-looking, plaid-printed ass.   RELATED: What His Underwear Says About Him   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Abercrombie "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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