by Elinda Harrison

Created on: September 10, 2009

Should belt-less pants, showing boxers or a whale tail, be banned? For what reasons would we need to ban this "fashion"? I missed the Network News break where this was announced as our number one fashion priority. Is this an absolute societal need and is this so vital that we need a debate and/or a need to place a ban?

Silly of me to think an all-out campaign on feeding the hungry, or trying to take back our children from a society of pedophiles and drug abusers would rate higher on our "to do" list. Instead, we are more concern with a ban on baggy jeans? Incredible! I would hope that we were more interested in trying to find ways to assure our children of better home environments and/or better parents, and less concern with a trend in their dressing styles! What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong with us?

I personally would be more willing to give my time and energy to a cause that works on hunger bans and bans against leniency for pedophiles and other abusers of children. I believe we should find ways to eradicate hunger from our towns and cities, whether they are urban or rural. I believe we could find ways to produce more garden items for these groups and for those that can, help them create and maintain their own gardens. I live in the city and have a garden that we have already enjoyed this summer. We planted tomatoes, lettuce, green beans, collard greens, green peppers, and green (spring) onions this year. We have been able to share some of the tomatoes, and the green onions.

I wonder how I'd feel if my bell-bottom jeans had been banned when I was a teen? Would I have applauded such concern for my style of dress or would I have been irritated by a society more concern with trivial than real? Can someone just tell me what we gain by such a ban? Maybe then I will understand why it is such a societal concern.

Perhaps banning my neighbor's son from wearing his belt-less pants, the ones that showed his brief style underwear, while in my garden, would have pleased our society more. However, I chose to have him help us garden instead. Silly me! In our country ,I believe very strongly that we should devote more time on the "bans" of wrongs already in existence, than worry about the baggy-pants our children wear. Bans on sexual abuse, verbal abuse, and physical abuse of our children, are bans that are worthy of our time. I just feel very strongly that there are many more issues that are of such greater importance than baggy pants. I think once we have achieved any of the above, and correct some of these wrongs, we then can conquer baggy pants or belt-less pants.

And, can you add a ban on too much eyeliner and mascara? Too transparent outerwear? Can we ban the visual thongs the young ladies think we all want to see as they bend over? Where's the petition to ban these items? Trivial!. Trivial. You can clearly see the importance of having bans such as these in our society, right? Perhaps, we have just given up on real things to ban and can only (weakly) go after such trivial crap as this!

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