Why do boys have the urge to slap the top of a doorframe?

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1. They just gotta do it

2. It’s critically important to periodically check that reality still exists.

   Confirming that the top of the portal remains physical is one simple check anyone sufficiently tall enough can do.

3. Because we all dream of dunking

4. I still do this as an adult.

   Its like me leaving my mark.

   Funny cause a co-worker ask me why I always did this when I leave her office a couple weeks ago and I told her the same thing, “I’m just leaving my mark.”

5. A young boy will try and fail to reach it

   Over and over again

   Until one day he reaches it

   Then one day he doesn’t have to jump to reach the top

6. Because they can

7. Just gotta. I also hit and spin the red handle on the garage door.

8. The top of a door frame is about 6’8″ tall. I guess they do it to test if they can reach at least 6’8″ tall. As a 6′ tall adult, I have bypassed door frames and have moved on to trying to slap the signs that hang down in Target.

9. Just need a good stretch

10. Makes one feel like they’re growing up and getting taller, and ready for the world. Should be randomly celebrated by an observer with a “hell yeah!”

11. Making sure we pass through without bumping our heads. Like whiskers feeling the space around you

12. It’s a form of stretching arms

13. top of the doorframe is to dudes what a laser pointer is to cats.

    You can’t not do it.

14. Same as jumping and hitting the ceiling of a parking garage

15. r/JustGuysBeingDudes

16. Brain: you just gotta do it

17. To assert dominance on the door and by extension the room you’re entering. The rush of absolute power is exhilarating

18. Men: “It asks for it.”

19. My daughter does this too.

    She’s really really tall. She loves it. She takes every opportunity to show off how tall she is.

20. You just have to do it

21. It’s a law actually.

22. I don’t have but sometimes i forget to bend and hit it with head

23. “Jordan!”

24. I do it to piss off my short friends

25. because at 5’8″ i cant reach most things but i damn well slap a doorway to assert my dominance

26. We just have to. If we don’t we’ll die. Horribly.

27. Evolutionary psychologists would suggest it’s because of an innate need to demonstrate ohtsical prowess.

28. It’s man code

29. This is the way

30. To flex on girls who can’t reach it.

31. We designed doors and doorframes for this purpose

32. If it didn’t want to get slapped it wouldn’t be just sitting there like that

33. As George Leigh Mallory said when asked why he climbed Everest: “because it’s there”

34. Gotta know where your exits are at all time.

35. “Because it’s there.”

    -Sir Edmund Hillary

36. It’s just required

37. It is law

38. Because they can…..that is why.

39. The world will end if I don’t.