Topic : 01/28 The Baggy Pants Debate

   I think one problem with this topic is that people don't know where the fine line is between wearing pants a little big and letting pants sag.

  Wearing pants a size or two big is fine. Letting pants sag below the but is not good. I don't think this is something they learn in the home from parents. This is a new style young people have picked up just by being in the world. They pick it up from there friends in school or brothers and sisters.

  I think another problem with the baggy pants debate is one society of people judging another society of people. The old folks that are in there 40's,50's, and 60's look down on the younger generation who wear there pants in this style think its low class, trashy and is all gang related. Its more related to the fact that when the the old generation of people where young they didn't wear their pants like that.  It gives them right to judge and have a negative opinion about it.........

      Of course its much easier to say, "PULL YOUR PANTS UP"............

You are way off base about "Old Folks" in their 40s,50s,60s looking down on the younger generation for the way they wear their pants.  In the first place - not all of the younger generation does it - some of them have enough respect for themselves to not show their underwear or their butts in public. They are not wearing their clothes the way they were meant to be worn, and I don't care who says what - there is no way that a person can walk or do a job effectively with the crotch of their pants hanging between their knees and ankles.  I believe it's just a phase - like mini-skirts and go-go boots were, and it will go away. The ones that still do it will be the ones out-of-style. I just hope it's soon.  I'm 56 years old and I work with a 33 year old woman who has 4 boys - 3 are teens. She does not allow her boys to dress like that - so it's not just the "Over 40" group who thinks these guys look ridiculous.

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    You could be right I may be way off base. I describing it how I see it. I've seen old folks or people in

the older generation be judgmental towards people who wear their pants this way. Some old folks are judgmental and got issues. They refer to young people as trash, the N word, and think there parents are idiots for not teaching them any better. I know not all the young generation dress with there jeans sagging, but some of them show off more than you can imagine.

   I agree I think it looks ridiculous also. If this is a phase I hope it ends soon otherwise, the young generation is into a new trend of fashion.....................

Personally, I don't like the look of baggy pants with boxers showing. Just look at the obnoxious stand-up comic in The Nutty Proffessor! That is how they look to me, comical. But if you want to wear them, be my guest. I'll wear my skin-tight fluro jeans and look like something that should have stayed in the 80s and you might think I look ridiculous; you are more than entitled to that opinion.

When I was 18, I had my nose pierced and was treated like a criminal in a shop. That hurt, I am an honest person. Needless to say, I didn't go back to that shop. A similar thing happened 10 years later, when I had my hair braided (I am white BTW.) Are braids and body piercings associated with criminality, because they are considered "ethnic"? I have my suspiscions.Do people have the right to discriminate against you, me or anyone, based on their physical appearance?  No, they do not!

I do, however have a confession to make: When I see a man sporting a T-shirt slogan such as, "CIA: Clitoral Investigation Agent", I will automaticly think that he is a jerk, with little or no respect for women  -and I'll probably shoot him a dirty look. This might make me a hypocrite, I cannot help the way I feel. I always have the option of looking the other way (following the dirty look.)

If "Baby Daddy" is such a fine person, why is he still in school and not out working to provide support.  Who is feeding and housing all of these accidental children, me and my truly outstanding sons, who work hard, pay a lot of taxes and do not make babys for other people to care for and support?  You say Grandma runs the family,  In all but scum families, there are parents to run them and Grandparents to  visit it they are still living.  If Grandma raised her own children right rather than pawn them off on her own mother, she has done her work.  Who ever enjoys the roll in the hay, should take care of the offspring. That means provide for the physical care as well as the necessary money.

Government should not have to legislate adult men pulling up their pants and covering their rear end.  If that is the part of themselves they want to show off because it is the part of themselves they are most proud of , remember everybody has a butt and they all look similar. The world would be a lot better off if everyone would get their mind out of thier pants and learn to read, get a job, a hobby, play a sport.  Do something besides procreate "accidental offspring" for others to have to support by lowering our standard of living to pay the ever rising taxes  take care of your responsibilities.