Problem Pants?

[geminigirl]

Louisiana lawmakers have a bill on the table trying to outlaw lowrider jeans.

Aren't there slightly more serious issues to focus on? And what are the lawmakers doing checking out the teenage girls enough to notice the things they talk about?

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[tommx.livejournal.com]

"I'm sick of seeing it," said Shepherd, a first-term legislator. "The community's outraged. And if parents can't do their job, if parents can't regulate what their children wear, then there should be a law."

if i were a parent in that district, i'd be pissed.

mother f***ker!!!

[wait.livejournal.com]

Hahaha.

I saw it on the Daily Show last night. I was hoping that it was a joke.

[wait.livejournal.com]

I wonder how they would ever define low-rider? And what if I want to wear my panties on top of my jeans, ala Britney?

[mistdog.livejournal.com]

I suspect local governments everywhere have a tendency to focus on trivial things.

More troubling to me is: what kind of country thinks that infringement of a dress code is best dealt with six months in jail? Don't they have community service sentences in Louisiana?

[tommx.livejournal.com]

for teenaged girls no less.

[bheansidhe.livejournal.com]

A sheriff and first-time legislator. Uh-huh. He's using the same small-town tactics that got him elected sheriff in the first place. Don't worry; they're having a good laugh at him in the house and senate. And it won't go anywhere. I'm from Louisiana, I worked in state government, and I think everyone's favorite game there is the turkey shoot. ;)

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Did you hear when they were trying to outlaw genital mutilation and formed the bill such that it de facto outlawed genital piercing? I'll try to find it for you if you didn't. It was actually hilarious when they brought it to the attention of the lawmaker. Apparently he got all sputtery and had no clue that people did that.

[geminigirl]

That was the bill a month or two ago in Georgia, right?

[dindin.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Scary and yet funny all at the same time.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

My favorite obscenity law story happened to a former colleague. He had to go down to Virginia Beach for a court date for his son. He told me his son had held up an obscene sign pointing out the back of the schoolbus window, and had been unlucky enough that the following car contained the offduty sherrif & his wife.

Took forever to get my colleague to tell me what the sign had said: "Will eat pussy for food"

I told him I applauded his son's wit.

[winterbadger]

Joe Cook, head of the American Civil Liberties Union's Louisiana chapter, says the bill probably does not meet the U.S. Supreme Court's standard for the prohibition of obscene behavior under the First Amendment.

"What about a woman who is wearing a bathing suit under her garment or she has something like a sarong wrapped around her and it's below her waist," he said. "I can think of a lot of workers, plumbers, who are working and expose their buttocks."

Exposed plumber's butt crack, now there's a mental image I didn't need. :-)

[quillon.livejournal.com]

Misogynistic, power-hungry repressed politicians tend to introduce bills like that.

Six months in jail for having your underpants showing?

Three words come to mind for people who have nothing better to do than to write bills like that:

Get. A. Life.

[roosterbear.livejournal.com]

Did you hear when they were trying to outlaw genital mutilation and formed the bill such that it de facto outlawed genital piercing?

Heh. In theory, that would outlaw circumcision too, at least from a certain perspective.

I would love to hear said lawmaker talk his way around that one.