New Law in ATL Against Sagging Pants

[RedefinedDiva]

Everyone has a different perspective and has been affected by it in different manners. My experiences may be different than others, therefore, I feel it is appropriate. I don't want to see your pubic hairs and butt crack when I walk out the door, male or female. I don't want to see some chick's breasts neither. So, if all that needs to be regulated, so be it. If you want to dress like you live in a nudist colony, why the hell should I suffer because of it? Public decency needs to be restored.

While I can respect everyone's opinion that it can/should not be legislated against, at what point do we start leaving our own decency behind to accomodate folks that want to stage a peep show everytime they walk out the door? There should be a point when folks stop making excuses and shrugging their shoulders. Something needs to be done because obvious other methods of control (of lack thereof) are NOT working.

[christiangirl]

The more I think about this, I can't help but feel like this is going to backfire in one of two ways:

1. People go to fashion extremes to get attention. Bringing these trends to government officials to create a new law=attention. I feel in my bones that if this becomes an actual law, then suddenly it'll multipy to the point where for every person cited, there'll be five more who got away.

2. How many people still ride in the carpool lane even though there's a fine? How many people still litter even though there's a fine? How many people still go over the speed limit even though there's a fine? People j-walk, spray graffiti, and ride in cars without seatbelts every single day even though all of these things infringe on other people's rights and/or safety and I don't see anybody's law eliminating them. The only thing that's going to end this ridiculousness is to just let them keep sagging until they trip because their pants were at their ankles.

[AKA2D '91]

Something needs to be done. Are we going to enact legislation with those in gothic garb? I don't like to see azzes out either, but I sure can't stand to see that gothic look either. When does it end?


Oh, I see thousands of males, primarily AFAm males EVERYDAY from 7:05-2:40, who like to show their boxers and such. Then, they will tell you you have no reason looking down there, when you see their underwear exposed.


Bynch slaps are needed from the great grandma on down.

[TonyB06]

Originally Posted by RedefinedDiva

Everyone has a different perspective and has been affected by it in different manners. .... If you want to dress like you live in a nudist colony, why the hell should I suffer because of it? Public decency needs to be restored.

While I can respect everyone's opinion that it can/should not be legislated against, at what point do we start leaving our own decency behind to accomodate folks that want to stage a peep show everytime they walk out the door?

Agreement over what is "public decency" anymore is shifting. Society is such a freakshow that what was shocking is merely passe' anymore. Every generation pushes the envelope and that, in part, is reflected here, too. But communities have to be given the right, in some regard, to set and maintain "approved" standards.

If this is bad legislation, someone will bring it to the ballot and we can fight about it then. But since increasing numbers of peeps are clearly intent on bearing most all of it now, I support the legislative proposal.

[shinerbock]

I hate this aspect of Atlanta more than most, and I think this is a stupid proposition.