Anecdote from long ago (it’s bewildering that this is even relevant today):
Whe I was in elementary school I had a teacher who’d started working back in the '50s. At her first place of employment there was a dress code which decreed that all female teachers must wear skirts or dresses to work - no pants. She purposely showed up one morning wearing a pantsuit, and was promptly called to the office and ordered to go home and change into a less scandalous outfit. No need. She took off her pants, put her belt on over her (long) shirt, and voila! she was suddenly suitably attired for work.
I would have loved to have seen the administrator’s reaction.
50 years later, some kook in Louisiana with a stick up his ass wants to make the same kind of silly school dress code that was outdated by the '60s into a law for the 21st century. This ought to get laughed out of the legislature.
Finally, a law that attempts to stop the enabling! Like the parents of these kids, my parents were enablers, and I’m still paying the price. Representative Shepherd should be applauded, right along with Representative Bill Heath, who has had the good sense to finally try to stop enabling women in Georgia who want to get their genitals pierced.
Regardless of what the article says, the JP community is not outraged at low cut pants. Aside from a few dumbasses like this Shepard guy, and Kenner, Jefferson Parish is a nice place to live. Harry Lee has done a great job down here and I bet he feels the same way about this legislation as we all do…
I disagree. I think most women I see in low-rise jeans look great in them, though I agree on the point of not having one’s underwear show. Same for guys. Though I did see one the other day wearing a pair of l.r. jeans that had “Von Dutch” embroidered in big pink letters across the butt. I do think name brands are an important indicator of quality when it comes to jeans, but I don’t understand the appeal of having a name scrawled across your butt.
Nuh-uh… I saw a guy walking down the street from the front and I could see his… er… the “base of his shaft”. I kid you not. Little Elvis appeared to be the only thing keep his pants up (and barely) and when he took a step there was enough give in the clothing that – whup! there it is! Pubes were exposed. It was gross.
Well, in all fairness, I’ve seen a handful of women wearing pants that were cut so low they had to wax before getting dressed–and I ain’t talking about their legs, folks. If you’re exposing vulva, it seems like you’d be in violation of existing indecent exposure statutes, at least in most places. (After all, the only way to get cited for indecent exposure in Nawlins is to whip it out and piss on a policeman’s horse.) Same for the fellow Eats_Crayons saw. If banning wearing pants that expose your genitals in public is puritanical, we need to lobby to have indecent exposure laws overturned.
I have a friend who works for the Legislature. She contends that Shepherd is so close to brain dead that she’s amazed he manages to maintain breathing and circulation functions. She also maintains that he’s a pandering asshat looking for publicity.
Hey, BabaBooey, another JP Doper? Cool! And another Sheriff Harry Lee fan, I see, too. When we first moved here and had a problem with our homestead exemption a few years ago and had to go to the sheriff’s department because they collect all the taxes, I was more than a bit skeptical – but I have never in all my born days received such prompt, friendly, helpful service from a public office of any kind. Got our problem solved for us in about two minutes. We decided then and there that if Harry runs that efficient a department, we’ll be happy to continue to make our property tax payments out to him by name.
And please note, non-JP Dopers, none of the above was sarcasm!! (Although I really wish they’d pick another corner than the one around the block from our house for one of the cash cow speed traps – we’re tired of being honked at and tailgated by other drivers for sticking to the speed limit because we know that at least 50% of the time there will be a cop around that next bend in the road!
Dear heavens. This piece of idiocy just made it out of committee and will now be voted on by the full House. I even just saw a report about it on the teevee.
This just in: I heard on the news this morning that the Louisiana House actually rejected this bill, warning it could “make Louisiana a laughingstock.” (I think it’s too late for that.)
The scary part? The final vote was – 54 to 39! Yes, this piece of idiocy got 39 votes.
