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Topic : 01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

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Do you think the government should be allowed to keep you from wearing something others may find offensive? A debate is gaining attention across the country: Should baggy pants be banned? You’ve seen them, primarily worn by men: oversized pants hanging so low that sometimes the entire behind shows! Local ordinances in 12 states have banned the low-slung look -– but are they unfairly targeting African-Americans? Dr. Phil speaks with guests on both sides of the debate -- including parents. And, Reverend Al Sharpton and Grammy nominated hip-hip artists the Ying Yang Twins join the show with their views on banning baggy pants. Get up to speed on this issue, before YOU get caught with your pants down! Join the discussion.

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January 30, 2008, 7:49 am PST

Baggy Pants

It deeply saddens me to see people arguing over the silliest issue. I don't condone wearing baggy pants, however, I don't think the government should intervene. I don't like looking at underwear hanging out of someones pants but I would rather see those instead of seeing women's cleavage. I have to say the boys are wearing baggy pants are keeping themselves covered.

 

Why has it come to arguing over clothes???? Don't we have anything better to talk about?????  To me, this shows we have completely lost our focus on what is most important in life and that is our CHILDREN who are wearing these.

 

I have a son and when he is old enough to choose what he wears, I will STILL have a say so in what he wears and baggy pants WILL NOT be in his pants drawer!

 
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January 30, 2008, 8:03 am PST

01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

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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.

God bless your son!

 

My son went through his baggy pants phase too, and has just enlisted in the USAF.  He leaves for boot camp March 4.

 

Hugs...

 

From one military mom to another,

 

Marie

 
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January 30, 2008, 8:04 am PST

01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

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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.

Hahaha!

 

I agree!

 

Marie

 
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January 30, 2008, 8:32 am PST

Baggy Pants

Fellas PULL EM UP!! The first impression is the most important.So if your dressed like a ( gangmember,stripper ) that is how you will be treated. Yes its profiling but it happens.If you dont like it then change your look. your drawing attention to your self.Ive never been to jail but I sure look the part.AND LADIES the same thing goes for you. Showing your thong is worse.WE THE PEOPLE DONT WONT TO SEE YOUR BOXERS,THONGS !!
 
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January 30, 2008, 8:48 am PST

Quit bringing racism into the mix

Dr. Phil, it annoys me so much that you bring Reverend Al Sharpton on the show for any case that has an African American on it. He makes any case about race, and I am a person who believes racism no longer exists. It does not exist because African American's bring it on themselves, when they use the N- word in every song, then I believe that they cannot accuse a white person of being a racist if they say it. Now I do not use the N- word, but I don't see it as a bad word anymore. When it comes to baggy pants, it disgusts me. I am almost 18 and a senior in a high school that only has about 8 African Americans in a group of over 4000. And still, I tell peers every day to pull up their pants because they look like idiots. I do this probably 2 to 3 times a day, and it has got to stop. The sad part is that most of the offenders wear belts with the pants! All they have to do is tighten them, or wear pants that fit. People need to grow up and wear clothes the way they were meant to be worn. I say make it a law, because people are obviously not getting the point that it is disrespectful, disgusting, and disgraceful.
 
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January 30, 2008, 8:54 am PST

baggy pants

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Since when did it become right or fair for anyone to tell you what you can wear, unless it's a parent and a young child. There are so many more important issues that people should be trying to resolve. If the males are not going to be allowed to wear baggy jeans are they going to stop women from wearing short shorts or skirts, low cut tops, or pants that are too tight ? We all know some women who should not be dressing this way do, at least the males are covered up and don't have any body parts hanging all out. A female can just as easily hide a weapon in her shirt as a male can in baggy pants. I think if you see something you don't like look the other way instead of continuing to look. I know this show hasn't aired yet but I saw the previews.

YOu have the same debate I have. If government is going restrict baggy pants, then they have to restrict  to short dresses, skirts, shorts and too low cut shirts. Outfits with the stomach showing or butt cheeks. All these things are things that everyone is not ok with.

I think government need to try to deal or be more concern about more serious issues like drugs, gangs, overcrowded jails, education, homelessness.

What do they not have anything better to discuss, but the way some kids are dressing. I think it's ridiculous.

 
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January 30, 2008, 9:09 am PST

01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

The topic is silly, every generation has their own style...  I must say that the hidden camera in the mall totally unfair.  Of course they would get treated no differently..it's a common site.     I would have liked to see the kids try to get hired for a job.  ( and not apply at mcDonalds)     They will grow out of it when it's time to get a job.   It's their style, let them express themselves.  ( I grew out of my punk stage.)

 
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January 30, 2008, 9:14 am PST

01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

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Since when did it become right or fair for anyone to tell you what you can wear, unless it's a parent and a young child. There are so many more important issues that people should be trying to resolve. If the males are not going to be allowed to wear baggy jeans are they going to stop women from wearing short shorts or skirts, low cut tops, or pants that are too tight ? We all know some women who should not be dressing this way do, at least the males are covered up and don't have any body parts hanging all out. A female can just as easily hide a weapon in her shirt as a male can in baggy pants. I think if you see something you don't like look the other way instead of continuing to look. I know this show hasn't aired yet but I saw the previews.

HMMMMMM...you saying for them to grow up and get a job?????    They are teenagers, they are growing up and they will grow out of the phaze once they get out of school/collage  and start appling for jobs. I think they are more covered up than some women who wear super mini skirts and show their thong.

 
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January 30, 2008, 9:15 am PST

Understand

Quote From: pigram53

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 understand what you are trying to say. I would expect theist from a 23 year old. At 53 you should have learned history.

 

What the Nation was:

1. Mafia ran rampant in the North.

2. Illegal alcohol sells.

3. Woman could not vote.

4. Woman ave no equal rights.

5. Children worked long hours in factories.

6. The Indians were murdered.

7 Blacks spent 400 years in slavery Iin America.

8. Blacks could not vote.

9. Blacks were hung without trials

 

The civil rights of this nation started in 1965, when Blacks were given the right to vote and when women were give the right to vote. This was the start of America's morality climb. We then fell off the hill when they legalized abortion, the murder of children. We fell further when they took prayer out of schools, kept it in Congress. We fell a little further when we started teaching the Theory of Evolution as a fact. No theory is ever fact and scientifically it is not even probable. Fell further, when we allowed the psychological code for homosexuality to be removed in 1973 and people refused to wait until a Gay gene was found. There is none to be found. We are in the toilets as our children have to face a future where God's design and law for marriage erodes and what God calls an Abomination is allowed as marriage. Sodom and Gomorrah here we come again.

 

Our challenge is to become something great as a nation and that is not what we were when we dropped two A-Bombs on when in children in Japan in 1945. We will never get it right without God. I would rather piss off a few people than piss off God.

 
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January 30, 2008, 9:24 am PST

The law has controlled us enough

Even though I think baggy pants that sag is disgiusting, I do not think there should be any kind of ban except for in the school systems. They cause distractions and kids are there to learn. But as a mother I would just tell my children to look the other way and give them reasons why it is wrong to do that. It is sloppy and my opinion makes me think the person is uneducautd.
 
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