It’s funny to think of how much importance we assign to pants (or trousers, as the English call them). I don’t know if it’s due to societal conditioning, or if it’s some deeply rooted instinctual preference, but it’s hard to take a guy seriously when he’s not wearing pants. Case in point: let’s say you and your friends are rough housing in a public pool, and a shirtless lifeguard tells you to stop. If you and your friends were rational people, you’d be inclined to listen to him. Now consider the same scenario, except instead of a shirtless lifeguard, imagine him free-balling in a tank top. If this pantsless lifeguard told you to stop horsing around, and you and your friends were rational people, you’d probably laugh at the guy and subsequently kick the crap out of him. A man without pants gets no respect. And really, that’s a shame.