Please! Pull Up Your Pants!
Enough is enough!
I know fads come and go. There are many I love to see come and equally as many I love to see go! These days, the one fad I would love to see go and never, ever come back is the drooping pants! So ghetto, out dated and over played! I am sick and tired of seeing rear ends! I blame so much on the south, Georgia in particular, but people, I feel like I am in the droopy drawers capital of the world!
Here I am, Sunday morning, on my way to church, all dressed up and I see a gang of guys walking. They are adorned in the loud t-shirts, enormous chains, the big tennis shoes of many colors (like Joseph’s coat), the caps on their heads (the kind you can only find in the tucked away, ghetto, strip mall, beauty supply shops), teeth blingage and then their pants falling down. Lord, it is a sight.
Years ago a preacher came to our church and she talked about the sagging britches. She said it originated in the jails and prisons and was the symbol for homosexuality. Wearing sagging pants was a gay man’s way to let the other gay men know he was approachable. If that is the case, the message was obviously lost in translation! The memo never went out! There is no way possible all the dudes I see walking around in the too big, sliding down the booty blue jeans, looking STUPID, are gay!
It is so ridiculous when I see a guy walking funny, almost like he is crippled, in attempts to keep his pants from falling all the way to the ground! It is even more ridiculous to see them walking around constantly holding onto their pants to keep them from falling off their bodies! And then imagine being behind one of them and the surprising astonishment when he slightly bends over and you see his entire back side because his (sometimes belted, sometimes not) pant is resting right below his butt cheeks! When you think about it, it has to be a sign of, at minimum, slight retardation. Who puts on a garment to cover a part of their body only to have it fall down or require constant tugging and an awkward way to walk? I wish there was a “Pull Your Pants Up” law!
Here’s the thing, what is the real benefit to dressing like this and more importantly, what is the real benefit to this ghetto/hip hop lifestyle? Seriously, other than ganstas (jail bound), drug dealers (jail bound) and rappers, who has made it big as a hip hopper? I looked up the term hip hop and this is what it said: a form of popular culture that started in African American inner-city areas, characterized by rap music, graffiti art, and break dancing. Ok, I’m not against rap music per se, some graffiti is nice and sends a nice message and break dancing is definitely an art form and entertaining but why oh why can’t the pants rest at the waist and be worn normally? Because still, in the name of hip hoppishness, the pants can be snazzy, jazzy, baggy, oversized in the legs, but please, buy your waist size and keep them cinched tightly!
I’m through. Pray my strength in the Lord on this one. I am so OVER this idiotic, foolish, unintelligent, ludicrous, nonsensical, silly, senseless, irrational, absurd, ignorant, GHETTOFABULOUS fad!
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ROTFL….somebody’s getting old!!! but I’m with you when you’re right and on this topic I’m with you, pull them up please!!! enough already!
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@Leah – Maybe I am getting old but come on! Butts, butts and more butts!
I am old and some gap legged walking is just too much. And they have the nerve to have a belt on when they wear them just below the butt cheeks. And they do not get embarrassed. ON to a better subject. Leah we had good crazy Church sunday. Your cousin preached Sunday morning and he preached like he was going crazy, like he did not have any sense. It was wonderful. Murray let the Lord use him but then he always does.
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Somebody’s buying these kids these clothes that are too big. If it’s their parents, they are the ones that need the talking to. And I dare not say that these kids are all street thugs that buy their own with what they’re selling because you see some of them like this in the house of God, so….. I would like to think it’s a passing fad, but it’s been going on for too long for that to be true. We just have to do our part to break the cycle and bring awareness, tough love and gentle love to those we know that doing it.
Yeah this is getting old. I was watching 106 & Park the other day and these dudes were performing their song. Not only was this dude saggin, but he was saggin with his whole butt out BUT he had on a belt. The belt kept his pants in place, but right under his butt. So he intentionally wanted everyone to see that he was wearing polo boxer briefs. Its looks stupid from far, close, anywhere. And on top of that these dudes have to walk stupidly just to pull it off. Its time for a new fad.
@Kendall Sawyer – …and that coming from a young man! Thank you Kendall because you too could be doing it!
I’m enjoying these comments but how about when they come to church dressed like this?!!!and the females look worse!!!My pastor is young and would never say anything over the pulpit. How do we teach them to honor the House of God?? I want them to continue to come…they want and need to be there. I share my bible with them and hug them…they are our future. Most young people now are not into the role model thing. They want to do their own thing.Sometimes they look like they came straight from the club. The most of them weren’t raised like us! What do you do??
@Leah – Leah, I could go and on about this question of yours. Here’s what I think the bottom line is: we (I will throw myself in there as not to openly offend the offend-ables) as parents have slacked way up and allowed this behavior. When I was growing up Harold and Martha Ann DID NOT CARE how I felt or what I thought about their rules and regulations! They did not! Like I have previously said, I did not listen to whatever type of music I wanted to in the house or in the car with them. I did not wear whatever I wanted to wear. I did not go wherever I wanted to go. I did not watch whatever I wanted to watch! (sidebar: I remember the whole house being grounded when Boy in the Plastic Bubble (John Travolta) came on. I was devastated we couldn’t watch it! And to this day, I have not seen that movie! Did my parents care how sad I was when all the other kids were talking about seeing that movie, absolutely not!!!) I did not cut, color or wear my hair the way I wanted to without approval. I did not go where I wanted to go! I was at a party (with all saved young people) at my Aunt’s house. My father called us a FEW minutes after 11:00 pm and told us to come home! SERIOUSLY! I was 17 years old! My sister was older. Guess what we did? We went home! He didn’t care what we thought. I, on the other hand, had numerous arguments with my beloved child on why she needed to be home by 1:00 am! What happened? Where did we go wrong! When did our kids get so cute we let down a standard and now have to severely deal with the consequences?
I am not saying everything my parents did was correct but… it was consistent, they never waivered in what they wanted of us or expected and I always felt parented. Child… today we want to be our kid’s friend. We want to hang with them, dress like them and most importantly, we want them to like us! OUR PARENTS DID NOT CARE IF WE LIKED THEM! They had a more important goal, to raise us up to be the men and women they knew we could be. And might I say, statistics show, the children of our generation are less troubled and commit less crimes and it is clear, we are 100% more mannerly than these kids today! Whatever happened to yes sir and no ma’am? The reason they come to church dressed any kind of way is because they have not been taught to respect God to that degree. Sure, we do stress the “come as you are” motto in church but, we have all heard the phrase about wearing your Sunday best? Scratch that! Is there such a thing as Sunday best anymore? But if a school said you couldn’t wear a t-shirt with writing on it, we wouldn’t let our kids go to school with a t-shirt with writing on it; yet, we will let them wear ANYTHING to God’s house. Then when they grow up in this manner, they expand their horizons and then dress (as Madea would say) IN-TI (any) KIND OF WAY!!!! And we shouldn’t act shocked or surprised, we raised them this way!
Let me tell you what I think is awful, when I the parent am driving/riding in a car I paid for, listening to music I don’t listen to, talking on the phone and literally straining and screaming to hear and be heard because my teenager is listening to God knows what! Can you say stupid! It’s my car! If I don’t listen to beeboop because I don’t want it down in my spirit, you ain’t gonna listen to it either, especially in MY CAR and have me screaming to hold a conversation! Again, can you say stupid! I think it is awful when, just a few years ago, when my child was a toddler I called all those hot young teenagers nasty in their skin tight, boob showing apparel, and now that my child is a teenage and does it, I just stand there and marvel at her size 2 frame and think how cute she and all her boobies are spilling out over that top! I think it is a shame when my child cuts her hair and look like Kent instead of Kathy because she wants to express her (manly) self. I think it is awful when my child totally disrespects my curfew and comes in whenever they choose. I think it is awful if I catch my child watching all manner of ungodliness and only say, ooooooo, when your daddy sees you watching that he is going to get you! We as parents need to MAN UP! Teach our kids in a manner that will produce great men and women! Furthermore, teach them to be people that contribute to society! Who cares how they feel about it or what they think! Our parents didn’t and God in heaven knows, my brothers would not have stepped their baby toe out the door with saggy pants on, showing their butts, with either of my parents in their right minds!
Here’s the thing, at the end of the day, at the end of childhood, my precious pudding pie bundle of joy, typically turns out to be a mixture of who they innately are – genes from me and the father – along with the results of the man or woman I raised them to be. Simple as that….
Kat, I totally agree!! You can replace “Harold & Martha Ann” with “John & Patt” in your statements.But the kids of today are coming to church with their friends…Mommas don’t even know they are at church or being drop off at the door and catching rides home or meeting up with whom ever! It is so sad!!!
I agree with all of you. I do not like saggin pants.
LETS GET SERIOUS NOW ON THIS TOPIC I AM SICK AND TIRE SEEING OUR YOUNG BLACK BROTHERS WALKING AROUND LIKE THAT, THEY LOOK SO BAD AND DONT EVEN KNOW, LETS MAKE A STAND, AND GET LAW PASS THIS TIME, LET IT BE KNOWN, IF YOU WEAR PANTS DOWN LOW YOU WILL GET $100.00 TICKET FOR INDECNT IN PUBLIC PLACE WE CAN DO THIS
Hi Kevin. I agree. Let’s put signs in establishments that say: no shoes, no shirt, no pants/no sagging pants, no service!!! I’m not sure we would get government officials to go along with the $100.00 fine or ticket, but the thought of it, and not having to see butts exposed anymore, is a nice thought!