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Teen clothing and the growing trashiness trend

From sagging pants to shirts with inappropriate and offensive images, there are many things that feed the growing trashiness trend of today's teens. I am here to speak of an unknown enemy that lies underneath the pants of the teenage boy: boxer shorts. Unless a boy sags his pants, boxer shorts are not a problem because no one really sees what he wears, right? Wrong. If you ask me, boxer shorts are a stain on society. As more boys around the globe switch from briefs to boxers, society slowly reaches its downfall. If you (the reader) do not believe my words, I hope I can change your mind with this report that I have written:

When we (people in society) turn on the television to the news, we watch reports of criminals being arrested. For those who pay attention to the news, people have probably seen that most of the male criminals that have been arrested wear boxer shorts. The point of this is that boxer shorts are a symbol of criminality and delinquency. We see juvenile delinquents picking up their sagging pants to hide their boxer shorts while they assault an innocent child or write graffiti on a wall. People hardly ever see any criminals wearing briefs, but people almost always see them wearing boxer shorts. If you are a parent, would you rather have your son (if you have one, of course) looking like a juvenile delinquent (by allowing them to wear boxer shorts) or would you like them to look like a role model in society (by forbidding them to wear boxer shorts and making them keep the briefs).
Another reason why people should discard of their boxer shorts is because most of the people I have met who wear boxer shorts are either unkind, unintelligent, or do things that morally or ethically unacceptable. For example, most of the boys at school wear boxers and it is most of the boys in school who receive failing grades and are truly unkind or ill-behaved. Those boys who wear boxers and make excellent grades are still either unkind or ill-behaved. Any way you put it, boys who wear boxers are at least two of those three characteristics. To prove it, I will demonstrate with a person I know. Since I do not want to mention his name, we'll call him Subject A. In the 6th grade, Subject A wore briefs. He was an excellent student who never got in trouble and always made great grades. However, in 7th grade, Subject A switched to boxers and things began to change. He began to get in trouble more often and reached up to the level where he was sent to the principal's


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