{"id":44390,"date":"2017-02-01T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44390"},"modified":"2020-07-29T23:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T03:09:45","slug":"in-mississippi-sagging-pants-is-a-mental-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44390","title":{"rendered":"In Mississippi, sagging pants is a mental disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TL:DR<\/a> \u2013 Mississippi lawmaker hates sagging pants so much, aside from fines for repeat offenders, psychiatric counseling becomes necessary<\/span><\/p>\n

This story is kind of a good example of the current state of the American political climate.\u00a0 If this story broke out a few months ago prior to the presidential election, it probably would have gone mostly ignored, possibly ridiculed, but a definite flash in the pan.\u00a0 People like me laugh about the irony behind how stupid it is, and maybe even dedicate some words in a privately run blog and shine a little bit of light to like six readers.<\/span><\/p>\n

But happening now?\u00a0 It\u2019s racist!!\u00a0 The lawmaker?\u00a0 He\u2019s racist!!\u00a0 The implications behind punishing people who sag their pants?\u00a0 Racist!!\u00a0 It\u2019s Trump\u2019s fault!!\u00a0 Emboldened!!\u00a0 Racist!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know this is the reaction, because I\u2019ve perused through the general meat of the comments of this story in various outlets.\u00a0 The vast majority of them are saying the same things about how this is a waste of taxpayer dollars, how there are better things to be working on, and how this reeks of racism, due to the fact that the vast majority of people known to sag their pants are black guys.<\/span><\/p>\n

Look, I don\u2019t care if a guy is black, white, brown, yellow, Korean, Cambodian, Portuguese, Hmong or Iranian \u2013 I do not want to see the Huggies of another grown man, ever.\u00a0 Sure, I agree that perhaps there are some more pressing matters in which lawmakers could be focusing on, but I am entirely okay with rules existing that declare escalating punishment for those who insist on letting everyone around them see their gross-ass drawers.\u00a0 If it means denigrating a grown man to where he is sent to a shrink because he can\u2019t rationally understand why it\u2019s considered in poor taste to have your pants half on, then so be it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Really, it\u2019s just funny to fathom that someone out there thinks sagging pants is a mental disorder, and that counseling is really going to make a difference.\u00a0 But hey, if it gets people to stop doing it, why not give it a whirl?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, there are a ton of things else that could have been addressed, but I highly doubt those who fling stones of criticism have never skirted something of higher priority to take care of something inconsequential before.\u00a0 Lawmaker or not, we all have different beliefs at what makes our communities, and the world around us better places, and a world with less bums with sagged pants is one I don\u2019t think is that bad at all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TL:DR \u2013 Mississippi lawmaker hates sagging pants so much, aside from fines for repeat offenders, psychiatric counseling becomes necessary This story is kind of a good example of the current state of the American political climate.\u00a0 If this story broke out a few months ago prior to the presidential election, it probably would have gone … Continue reading In Mississippi, sagging pants is a mental disorder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165,89,49],"class_list":["post-44390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-politics","tag-racism","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44392,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44390\/revisions\/44392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}