Underwear is called underwear for a reason

We’ve all seen them, mostly young men walking around with their crouches down to their knees and their boxer covered butt hanging out. They hold their pants up by grabbing the front and pulling them up or constantly hiking their drawers just in the nick of time before their trousers hit the ground. It seems this fad started in prison. In prison they don’t issue belts and sometimes the prison garb doesn’t fit correctly so they hang loosely on the body. For a prisoner to wear his pants below his butt it indicates he is homosexual.

Wearing low pants carries a high risk of fines and even jail time in several Louisiana parishes where new ordinances call for police to crack down on wardrobe violations in city streets.

Even the Virginia state house has voted to outlaw the trend of wearing trousers low. That underwear hangs over the top. Delegate Lionell Spruill, a Democrat, who was against the bill called it “a foolish bill”. He asked fellow politicians to remember their own former fashion faux pas, including Afro haircuts, platform shoes and shiny polyester “shell suits”.

 In Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is in agreement. He opposed the then pending “baggy pants” bill that would forbid students to expose their underwear on school grounds. Crist said it reminded him of his own school days, when long hair was an issue for boys. Crist made these comments during a meeting with officials of the Florida NAACP. They met to discuss education and development issues.

 Afterward, Crist and state NAACP President Adora Obi Nweze met briefly with reporters and said they are in agreement on the droopy-drawers issue, which the NAACP fears might be used disproportionately against black and Hispanic students.

 A comment in a chat room sarcastically remarked “I am against the legislation. Droopy drawers allows us to spot the emotionally unintelligent and avoid contact with them.”

Over the last two months, Florida lawmakers have debated more than 2,000 bills on subjects affecting the everyday lives of Floridians. Among the bills that failed to make it was the DROOPY DRAWERS bill banning students from exposing their underwear at school.