Topic : 01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

I'm amazed that, without actually having seen the show, you were able to hit the nail so squarely on the head.  I don't feel any government agency should have the right to legislate how people dress.  If some are so offended by the apparel of others, I can only suggest that they not look at what offends their delicate sensibilities and ask themselves why they are allowing themselves to be so offended.  As I was watching the show, I noticed that one of the women on stage was wearing a rather large silver cross on a chain about her neck.  That silver cross could possibly offend a few people.  Perhaps there should be a ban on wearing any religious jewelry in public.  After all, someone, somewhere might be offended by it and we all know that religion has often started wars.  See how ridiculous things can get?  If one kind of attire is deemed offensive and is banned, then any attire which offends anyone can be banned. 

 

 The problem is not with the baggy pants.  The problem is with those who have nothing better to do than attempt to dictate to others how they should dress.  There are so many other more important issues with which people might concern themselves.

 

 All I can say is RIGHT ON.  The government can't control the things that are already against the law, why add more.

I don't believe it's the government's place to get involved in this baggy pants issue. We have so much more going on in this country to be concerned about rather than baggy pants. I am a 43-year-old mother of a 15-year-old son. His pants sag a little but never half way down or all the way down his butt. I have seen him wear shorts (with an elastic waist) a little lower because he can as they have elastic. I buy his jeans, so I buy a size that fits, not jeans 2 or 3 sizes too big that I believe some parents must buy their children. I personally don't mind the looser-fitted jeans on boys with a little sag. This sag half way or all the way down the butt though just looks stupid. I just don't see the fashion in that at all. Young people are followers, as much as we would like them to be leaders...wherever and however it got started, it was perceived to be "cool," therefore, teens started doing it. I think most will outgrow it. Just my 2 cents.

I feel this should not be a racial issue at all. This is a moral issue. I'm 53 yrs old and oh how this nation has changed since I was a child. The indencent laws have gone out the window. While the christians were sleeping O'Hara was allowed to change our children single handed. No prayers in school, no pledge to the flag and no discipline. Why can't people wake up to what this nation has become and where it's going. We need our leaders to turn this thing around. It's not too late. The goverment needs to step in only if they go back many years ago. This nation began with morals. At the very beginning schools taught from the bible. We didn't have the crimes we do now. Simple because someone gets offended and files a suit and then morals are out the window. I know we have constitusional rights but it gets used to freely. I'm very frustrated with people yellin discrimination.

                                                                                                                                                    Very passionate,

                                                                                                                                                       Lee Bryant

                                                             

 

                                                                                                                                                        

I'm sorry but showing off your underwear in public should be considered illegal exposer. Women can not go around in a bra, people should not go around showing off their underwear.

I don't feel the gov. should be involved in this, because they can't control anything that is of any real importance.

I DON'T think that is a racist topic either, and I feel that Dr. Phil sort of invoked this by having the

(hard for me type this) REV. AL SHARPTON on the show. I am so fed up with the racist card, I can't stand it.

What parents and these kids need to ask is: if you owned a business, would you hire someone dressed like this? I owned an accounting business for 32 years, and NO Way, the same as with a female applying for a position in a mini skirt. What ever happened to class????

This is too funny.  Every generation has their goofy styles.  I would much rather see colorful boxers hanging out of a mans pants than the full or half moon I see every time some fat old man bends over.  I have also seen on several ocassions a full view of a pregnant girls belly in clothes designed to show that thing off with inside out navel and all.  yuk!  Give me the baggy pants any day.  Keep the government in our wallets where they are used to being and out of our closets.

My son is enlisted in the Army National Guard, and is currently serving in Iraq. He would wear his pants below his waist.It did not make him a unrespectable person.

Hi Mitzy...how are ya?

 

Question:  So should hanging bra straps be illegal too?  I think it looks sloppy.

 

:o)

 

Marie

Wearing baggy pants is immoral?

 

Now I've read everything.

 

Marie