*The war on saggin’ pants continues.
If you thought lawmakers in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina were the only ones looking to ban the sight of men’s underwear showing on the street, think again.
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New York State Senator Eric Adams is pushing for a ban of young men showing their behinds on the streets of New York.
Adams says his Brooklyn district is “ground zero” for the sagging epidemic and has heard from many who are tired of seeing the style.
“It is symbolic of the erosion of basic, normal decency,” he writes. “People shouldn’t be displaying their pubic hairs. That is not normal, acceptable behavior in young people that we are grooming to be in a professional environment. You can’t dress the same on the corner as you can in corporate America — you’ll be unemployed.”
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The ban should happen in all 50 states. This sagging pants trend is 20 years old!!!!! It has got to stop. Since men (yes even 60, 70 year olds) won’t pull their pants up, white lawmakers have to tell them to or catch a conviction. SMH
I’ve always hated this ignorant, negative and tacky look. I see this all the time on young black men and it’s make’s me want to kick them in the b@lls. I hope this ban will eventually happen in all of the USA.
This is futile. The only way to get boys and young men to pull up their pants is for girls and women to start telling the they don’t like that style and pull them up. Until boys/men realize girls don’t think it looks stylish, parents, legislators and anyone else is just blowing into the wind. I’ve tried this in my neighborhood and it is starting to have a positive impact.
Last of the Frozen Chosin and one of the Chosin Few
Most women are disgusted at the sight of these males who love showing their azzes so don’t even try to blame this on us! This is a way for them to encourage further rejection from society IMO. It’s so bad some of them wear tights so they can sag down to their knees and ankles…yes, ankles!
The world is slowly changing and we need to embrace it. Do we really want the courts filled with people fighting citations accusing them of dressing inappropriately?
Even though I absolutely hate the look I don’t believe its right to dictate how a person dresses. If we ban sagging then we should ban people wearing 6inch red,purple mohawks and cross dressing or people who wear clothing that is wayyy to small for their full figures.Or people who walk around practically naked with nice bodies because I believe these examles are equally unattractive. Its a fad that eventually males grow out of.
I was assaulted by some gray drawers heading down the street as I was riding past on the bus after work last week in Brooklyn. I remember back when this trend started. Colored, nylon boxers were all the rage among poor Black men. They became a status symbol. Only thing was, no one knew they were wearing them until one particular summer it seems NYC was throwing all of the convicts back into the public. The low riding assault began gradually and within a few weeks, we were seeing BVDs and Calvin’s everywhere. And yes Chosinfew, we women complained mightily back then! All the females no matter the age were complaining to the young men about this to no avail. Mothers weren’t putting their sons out because of it, young wives weren’t divorcing their husbands and girlfriends weren’t breaking up with these fools so, the trend continued and managed to spread itself across the country. Even being confronted with the knowledge of what sagging/low riding pants with your drawers showing means in prison has not made these fools stop the foolishness which really makes me go HMMM…………..
And, why do parents allow their sons to buy pants that are so big and baggy that they can let them hang below their behinds and assault others? If you’re giving them money and they’re not spending it properly, it’s your responsiblity to resume buying their clothes until they can exercise good sense!
I say put them all in Rikers gen. pop. for two weeks and let’s see then how many continue with their pants up under their butts.
This is crazy. If they want to walk out with their draws showing, let them. It’s not hurting anybody.
I personally find it offensive, the mere notion that we are being called to police ourselves regarding a style of dress that has come to be associated with hip-hop, i.e. urban, i.e. black culture.
While I’m so friggin above the notion of my child ever wearing such a style, I’m loath to post my resistance to this measure as I might slip and say something politically incorrect about banning cross-dressing.