Is it normal for boys but not girls to go around the house in underwear?

As a young boy, I was often in just my underwear (multiple pairs of tighty whities, which I wore like a diaper for frequent poop accidents, but that's another story) while my two older sisters never did this. My sisters always had pants on during the day and at night they always wore pajamas. Several hours before bedtime and in the morning after, I'd have on underwear and a shirt (which of course, was also what I wore to bed), and on weekends and during the summer I'd remain in my underwear for much of the day unless I left the house. My sisters made a big deal about the fact that they never let me see them in their underwear, because only boys did this sort of thing, according to them. In other households I visited I also noticed that boys would often be in underwear or diapers, but girls would always have pants, shorts or pajamas on some kind on.

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  • ez-riding

    It has something to do with that whole mindset of how boys can go around shirtless but women can't. It's just a gender/sex issue.

    My dad and brothers usually go around the house in their underwear, and my mum and I AT BEST wear loose clothing without underwear. If I were to go around the house in my underwear people would flip and tell me I was being indecent. I guess it's just the way the cookie crumbles.

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  • Michi62

    Yes, I think that is normal that boys walk around in their underwear and girls don't. Boys will be boys!

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  • BIgEB

    As youngsters (usually 5 or younger), I don't consider this unusual for either sex, but, as one ages, I don't consider this normal for either sex, at least not in the open...

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  • offtopic

    it's kind of a societal norm I think for boys to be able to do that, and girls not to be. it makes no sense though in my opinion. it's wrong for a family to sexualize their own daughter like that. girls should have the right to be comfortable in their own home too!

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  • runningwithscissors

    Haha. i did this and I'm a girl

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  • fratom

    It differs naturally from family to family most I would feel don't bother and see it as a normal thing coming down for breakfast in undies and hanging about the house the same way> no big deal in most families I would say even in some familes they are butt naked

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  • thegypsysailor

    Who gives a crap what a little child wears around the house? Seems like you are all traumatized over absolutely nothing. Forget it and get on with your life, and wear whatever you please, in your own home.

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    • Michi62

      I am not talking about little boys only. I think it is is normal that teenage boys walk around in their underwear too!

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      • thegypsysailor

        If you think about it, underpants aren't that much different from swim suit bottoms, are they?

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