actually no, its the state of the shorts which gives lie to the attitude of the male wearing them. This is, as we said, males only.
As I said, I have personal reasons I don't like to see goofy guys wearing DECREPIT cargo shorts. Generally speaking my experience is that they tend to be smug entitled jerks who yell a lot. They figure the rules of society don't apply to them so why change their FALLING-APART clothing to something a bit more appropriate. Wearing casual clothing that is FRAYED AND TORN is a signal that
1) you dont' have the money to repair or buy new ones and you have no other clothes which means you're probably desititute and I could figure that out anyway because you probably have a full beard too and scraggly in general in which case I feel rather differently about you and your shorts and you no longer fall into that category
2) you don't give a flying fig whether you look like shit because the world rolls a red carpet out for you anyway
This is not me despising men who wearing shorts. This is a specific type of ATTITUDE that is chosen for reasons personal. A hoodie is utilitarian. A turban is symbolic and of religious significance depending on your belief system. A burka/hijab/niqab is as well. There's lots of cultural clothing and I have no problem with any of them.
I have a problem with the most pampered segment of the population walking around looking crappy in inappropriate circumstances then getting all snitty about it.
You wanna tell me I'm a racist and/or islamophobe? Well okay, I guess you feel pretty good about now.
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Date: 2013-08-05 06:38 pm (UTC)As I said, I have personal reasons I don't like to see goofy guys wearing DECREPIT cargo shorts. Generally speaking my experience is that they tend to be smug entitled jerks who yell a lot. They figure the rules of society don't apply to them so why change their FALLING-APART clothing to something a bit more appropriate. Wearing casual clothing that is FRAYED AND TORN is a signal that
1) you dont' have the money to repair or buy new ones and you have no other clothes which means you're probably desititute and I could figure that out anyway because you probably have a full beard too and scraggly in general in which case I feel rather differently about you and your shorts and you no longer fall into that category
2) you don't give a flying fig whether you look like shit because the world rolls a red carpet out for you anyway
This is not me despising men who wearing shorts. This is a specific type of ATTITUDE that is chosen for reasons personal. A hoodie is utilitarian. A turban is symbolic and of religious significance depending on your belief system. A burka/hijab/niqab is as well.
There's lots of cultural clothing and I have no problem with any of them.
I have a problem with the most pampered segment of the population walking around looking crappy in inappropriate circumstances then getting all snitty about it.
You wanna tell me I'm a racist and/or islamophobe? Well okay, I guess you feel pretty good about now.