Multi-directional Rants
The J-word. So, i submit to you this question. In a politically correct world where where we must be cautious about using racial slurs, the most apparent of which is the dreaded “N” word, is it acceptable for anyone, regardless of race, to use the “N” word, be it in conversation or in the lyrics of a song? As a person, who is of half Japanese ancestry, (on my mother’s side), is it okay to use the term “Jap” when talking to or about someone else who is also Japanese. Are you being racist if you are not Japanese? Or is that a racist term, regardless? Depending on who you might ask, it was either the Japanese or the “Japs” that attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. I suppose that what isn’t and may never be clear to me is why it seems to be okay for the “N” word to be used frequently in conversation and song if the user is of Afro-American ancestry. I’m just saying. No one talks about it but…..don’t you wonder?
Pull your damn pants up!- Where did it all begin? It seems that this fashion style, if I can call it that, started inside the walls of our penal institutions. Apparently, the creativity of inmates include the re-purposing of items to create weapons to be used on fellow inmates to inflict injury or death. I’m not even sure what sort of weapons might be made but “management” decided that of the many things that you, as the incarcerated, were not allowed to have in your possession, a belt was one of them. So….if your pants did not fit, they sagged. And somewhere along the line, it become cool to wear your pants over ore under your butt cheeks or just above the knees.(the lower, the better). But I have to admit, I’m not nor will ever I be THAT cool. But people are so easily taken in and want to keep up with what everyone else(not really EVERYONE) is doing, that THEY start doing it. WTF? How stupid is that, to wear your pants like that and not only have to hold it up with one hand to keep it from dropping to your feet, or waddle like a duck because the tops of your pants are at your knees? Those that do will do it anyway because, I suppose, there’s a bit of notoriety and a suggestion of being a bad ass, who in some ways, idolize those, whose failure to obey the laws of the land, have found themselves spending time behind bars. God forbid that you may have to run from someone when your pants are down to your knees. That’s just my angle. I think it’s ignorant, I’m not doing it but that’s just me.
Rip it!- If there’s a rip in my pants, I’m not wearing it. At least not until that rip is sewn shut! However, somehow, when I was not looking, it became fashionable to wear ripped pants. Sometimes it just the knees but for the most part, multiple rips, top to bottom, front and back, continue to be a current fashion statement, for both women, and men. Again, not all are following this trend. I must have fallen into a dark hole and when I popped out, people where paying top dollar in the stores for pants that were already ripped. More rips, more money. If there is one upside to this, it me be, that if you can’t afford to shop and pay a premium price for ripped pants, you could rip up your own good jeans and suddenly, you’re in fashion. Go to Target….buy a pair o jeans for under $20.00. Want rips in them? Then go to Dillard’s, Macy’s or Saks and pull out that plastic, no-spending limit, I’ll pay for it later (with interest) card, and prepare to spend a lot more to be fashionable.
This is the extent of my rant for today but when it comes to talking trash about something…….I’ll find another target.