I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans, Part 5: “Gone Global”

I mentioned Aleppo, Syria in the first post of this series because one of my twitter/ blogger friends, Elaine Z., is from there and all the way on the other side of the world guys are doing the same damn thing and looking just as stupid.  It’s a fashion and societal act of defiance for rebels without a cause-or belts. This is what Elee writes:

I’m a 23 year old girl living in Syria Aleppo, and yes a good looking well dressed fashionable guy can really attract my eye and make me feel blessed to meet him…

But this I don’t understand, it happens here too and in a weird way… Why do guys have to do this, showing all people around him a huge part of his underwear… Those guys really wear jeans 2 sizes larger than theirs real size to make this happen, the pants goes down and Bam, you get blind when you see white boxer with red hearts on, or blue one with yellow bears on!  I saw that lots of times and I went like WTF? The answers came like, “maybe it’s comfy” or “maybe it’s the fashion!” Damn! If it’s comfortable, which I doubt believe, manage to wear a long shirt over it to cover! And/or who the hell told you that it’s fashionable?

All I can say that it sucks and none of the girls around me find it attractive! So please guys, stop doing it for the sake of our eyes!! You’re ruining the beauty of your style with this thing!  Who cares to know what the design is???

I thought Elee’s part about the boxers with red hearts and yellows bears is funny, living in New York, I’ve seen worst. And  yes, I mean worst, let’s just leave it at that.  I often thought to myself, as well, is it comfortable to wear you pants so low, I actually asked somebody before and this is what he said verbatim, “ahhhh, naaaahh, like…you know, it’s coool, you know?…”

Pull Up Your Damn Pants, Fool

See these related posts, written for this series with fellow writers:

• Attractions, Associations, Corporations And Exceptions: Whatever I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans on Tamika/@CultureFlyy’s blog, www.CultureFlyy.com [12/16]
  

• Excuse Me, Your Pants Are Falling: “…No Child Of Mine” written with Fariyal/@FariyalB and Mateo on his blog, www.Back2GoForward.com [12/18]
  

I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans, Part 3: “A HISTORY: Poverty, Booty And Criminal Intent”

SERIOUSLY. Does it even matter what the history is behind this scurge? This fad has had a strangle-hold on the urban community and the society at-large for a generation or two now. This isn’t fashion, style or swagger, this isn’t even acceptable human attire. it should be against the law (wait let me not get ahead of myself…) I don’t want historians to put this trend in the record books as being representative of my era. That would be a blight on my generation- Levi Strauss is turning grave. What would  The Big Book Of History say when the get to dungarees: “towards the latter part of the Twentieth Century urban men explored gravity-defying feats of pantaloonage.  Belts became obsolete because the waistline moved to the thighs and the Penguin Walk was created. This is the trend that catapulted  the Pussy Push Movement of 2018 when a large portion of society’s females turned to Lesbianism out of pure dissatisfaction for what the modern man had become… That might be the scene, as historians look back on this era in a generation or two. I wonder how people are going to describe this trend once it eventually dies out.

You cant describe something without starting at the beginning. After all, how will you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. In other words, you have to go back to go forward. Speaking of Back2GoForward, Mateo, friend and guest blogger to the site, gave me some insight on one of the origins of this craze:
When the 70′s heroin epidemic hit, shit got hard, and then 80′s crack wave washed through the hood, it shattered families that were already struggling. Hand-me-downs or HCRP (hood clothing recycling program) became an everyday staple in life. Many children would show up to school not with the latest fashion, but with what their older siblings’ wore for school the year before (sometimes two and three years.) Hence the ill-fitting clothes.

Rap artists in the 90 like Naughty By Nature helped push it into mainstream America, forever changing a once hood struggle into a false movement. Like all things we turned it into a way of being- a universal sign of poverty,  glorified  by people that can’t even relate to true struggle. Just take a look at the older hip hop artist from back in the day: early LL Cool J, Run DMC who were ,at the time, making hit records, they weren’t wearing sagging pants. Along the way we forgot that you can move forward and beyond old concepts and ideas. So here we are in 2009 going into 2010 wearing  two hundred dollar jeans  that don’t even cover what they’re supposed to. Even with the wave of tight jeans I can not understand how those can be worn around your knees.

Haa! Skinny jeans at their knees…that’s so New York. They sometimes buy the jeans so tight, it can’t go all the up.

I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans, Part 1: March Of The ‘Penguin Walk’

YO DUDE! Why is it that I can see your entire ass in those jeans. Pull’em up or stay your low-life ass in the house. I don’t understand guys my age (and older) that still do that. What kind of message are you sending out? This is how you want people to view you? You will never leave the ‘hood if people can tell what kind of drawers you wear just by looking at your ass. (By hood, I mean the wool you’re pulling over your eyes if you really thinks that’s acceptable clothing, whether you’re from Harlem, Greenwich, Connecticut or Aleppo, Syria) … And why the five-pound over-jeweled counterweight you call a belt.? It serves no function or purpose- it’s at your calf! The only purpose it could serve is ensuring that your dick head doesn’t pop out through the pee hole in your boxers when you stand up too fast. How must you see yourself to think this is how and man, a boy should look! You’re the epitome of a societal malignancy. I saw a white guy on 34th Street  a couple days ago when I was with a friend , walking in the cold with no jacket, no belt with his pants falling slightly and step he took revealed a little more crack. It’s definitely not just a racial issue anymore, that guy had to have felt the breeze rushing down his crack, it was like 36 degrees out…what people will do in the pursuit of bad fashion never ceases to amaze me.

I always think if these guys (and some girls) could really see how they look in the street, walking, waddling rather, like March Of The Penguins: The Denim Edition, then they would know how stupid they look. [Big Phat FAIL] Then these guys have the audacity to sit on the bus or train seats nearly bare-assed, that’s scandalous, just as nasty as this girl.
I’m not even going to get into the societal impact and influences, how long can we blame rappers for the things you do. just because Jeezy, Weezy and Kanye wear their pants under their ass doesn’t mean you have to do it too. Are you going to rain on Taylor Swift’s parade too and date birdbrains with buzz cuts then impregnate the entire South- everyone can’t pull that off. I don’t even want to blame rappers for what goes on in the hoods on America (and beyond), that’s so 90′s. It’s time for us to take responsibility for our own actions, appearance and the repercussion of such. It’s just like the family and friends of anorexics blaming the modeling industry, eventually personal responsibility has to come in to play… to be continued..

*post script* In the picture above: not only is the guy’s pants off his ass and he’s sitting on a metal seat in an NYC Public hospitals emergency room, his shoulders and posture  illustrate the messages  he’s sending out, at-large. The saddest (or funniest) part about the bottom picture is that the guy’s left hand makes it look like he’s really walking around with his cock out on Canal Street, or something. I don’t even know how this is physically possible because book bags make your clothes ride up and down, eventually he’s going to have a malfunction. Shame.

See Upcoming Related Posts:

• 12/15-Attractions, Associations, Corporations And Exceptions: Whatever, I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans  on Tamika/@CultureFlyy‘s blog, www.CultureFlyy.com
• 12/16-I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans:  “A History: Poverty, Booty And Criminal Intent” written in part by Mateo/@MCiscart
• 12/17-Excuse Me, Your Pants Are Falling: “…No Child Of Mine” written with Fariyal/@FariyalB and Mateo on his blog, www.Back2GoForward.com
• 12/18-I Can See Your Entire Ass In Those Jeans: “Gone Global” written in part by Elaine/@Elee1986