# I got my hand down my pants **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776 "2004-02-12T02:44:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/41 "2004-02-12T12:24:10Z")
Brixton is very multiculteral. Also i’m not decrying the fact that the OP raises a valid point - I just think he said it like an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/42 "2004-02-12T12:31:36Z")
> [@](#): > > The vast majority of dick-grabbers I have seen are young black men. Does anyone live in an area where dick-grabbers are prevalent and they are not mostly black? Just wondering. Sure – ever been to college (or, at least, a college dominated by Long Island frat boys)? Besides, the original dick grabber, Al Bundy of _Married With Children_, was white. He spent half an hour every week on national television with his hand down his pants, while an audience full of white people cheered lustily. Also: **ccwaterback** is obsessed with black cock! _HA-HA!_ ---
**Author:** ![Joachim\_Pieper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Joachim\_Pieper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joachim_Pieper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/43 "2004-02-12T12:32:10Z")
The victoria line pretty much sucks, though, eh? It happens a lot, though, around here, jumping on people without giving the benefit of the doubt… Cheers. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/44 "2004-02-12T12:59:58Z")
My number one association for crotch grabbing is Eminem. Maybe it’s a Detroit thing? Am I being whooshed here? I can’t believe that a poster could be so stupid and stick around for 2000+ posts. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/45 "2004-02-12T13:04:42Z")
Also, on the off-chance that the OP has stumbled across an incredible social phenomonen, can someone confirm or deny the existence of Colin Powell Crotch Grabs? Do we have a rate for CPCGs per press conference? Perhaps it’s a nerves thing? Did Powell grab his crotch more or less when presenting WMD info to the UN? How about Condi? Does this thing afflict the black woman as well as the black man? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/46 "2004-02-12T13:12:39Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > In a fruitless attempt to address the OP, maybe the guy had his hands down his pants because that’s where he had a gun stashed? Racist! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/47 "2004-02-12T13:25:00Z")
You sexist bastards! A woman can grab her crotch every bit as well as a man. There can be no true equality until women have the same groin-cupping opportunities as men! ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/48 "2004-02-12T13:33:58Z")
> [@gex gex](#): > > Does this thing afflict the black woman as well as the black man? Funny, I have seen rapper-type girls do this on MTV too, but not in real life. I think if a girl was approaching me, grabbing her crotch, I might just have to dip into my wallet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/49 "2004-02-12T13:43:34Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Oh, OK, all you need to do is watch MTV for about 30 seconds then. This may just be an American thing, I hope we have spared the rest of the world from this obnoxious behavior. Well, other than during Super Bowl half-time broadcasts, eh? Dude, MTV is to real life as _The Weekly World News_ is to journalism. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/50 "2004-02-12T13:53:59Z")
OK, don’t insert the ALWAYS and ALL words in my posts. A footnote here, I very rarely use ALWAYS and ALL, if I leave it out of my descriptions of things, then I don’t mean ALWAYS and ALL. OK? I haven’t been around NY Italian guys that much (a blessing?, sorry, I couldn’t help myself). So, indeed now that you mention it, I do remember NY Italian guys being depicted as dick-grabbers. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/51 "2004-02-12T14:05:49Z")
A lot of guys do this. I keep wanting to ask them if they are trying to count to eleven. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/52 "2004-02-12T14:18:17Z")
Every man I have ever dated, whether black or white, has done this in the privacy of his home. I thought that was pretty much universal. I guess it’s making it’s way into the street, but I have to say I have never seen it. By the way, can anyone help me find the “What’s up with black guys?” thread? It was hilarious but all the words I can remember are too short to search. Shoulda bookmarked it. ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/53 "2004-02-12T14:19:21Z")
**ccwaterback** I realise now your intent with the OP and have to say I agree that this ‘phenomona’ is pretty stupid. I also realise that your rant isn’t as racist as I first percieved but it is hard to distinguish how you meant to say it - online the written word can be inflected with all sorts of meaning by the reader, I just happened to percieve it as a gross generalisation that _all_ black people are crotch grabbers when my experience is to the contrary. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/54 "2004-02-12T14:30:55Z")
> [@WILLASS](#): > > **ccwaterback** I realise now your intent with the OP and have to say I agree that this ‘phenomona’ is pretty stupid. I also realise that your rant isn’t as racist as I first percieved but it is hard to distinguish how you meant to say it - online the written word can be inflected with all sorts of meaning by the reader, I just happened to percieve it as a gross generalisation that _all_ black people are crotch grabbers when my experience is to the contrary. No problem at all. I know anytime I open a pit thread I will suffer the slings and arrows from people that insert their own interpretation to my intent. It is indeed hard to tell tone of voice, and slant of eyebrow, in the written word. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/55 "2004-02-12T14:40:58Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > Every man I have ever dated, whether black or white, has done this in the privacy of his home. I thought that was pretty much universal. I guess it’s making it’s way into the street, but I have to say I have never seen it. This is a common practice when a bunch of guys get together (not in public) and they are grab-assing around being sarcastic, then it’s funny. Or like you say, when I guy is in the privacy of his own home. My point was guys that do it when they are in the company of total strangers. It’s like the first thing they do when they enter the room. Like, hello, let me introduce you to my dick. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/56 "2004-02-12T14:41:41Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > The vast majority of dick-grabbers I have seen are young black men. Does anyone live in an area where dick-grabbers are prevalent and they are not mostly black? Just wondering. Well, i’ve lived in the US for over three years, in a predominantly black city (Baltimore), and i can honestly say i’ve never seen a black man grabbing his crotch on the street. And, as i don’t have MTV, i can’t comment on the prevalence of this sort of behaviour in the media. Happy now? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/57 "2004-02-12T14:56:53Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Well, i’ve lived in the US for over three years, in a predominantly black city (Baltimore), and i can honestly say i’ve never seen a black man grabbing his crotch on the street. Interesting, this could just be a regional phenomenon. I have lived in Chicago and now Florida, Chicago had it bad, FL not so bad, but it’s still prevalent. I don’t see older black guys doing this, unless it’s the natural package-shifting thing all guys seem do occasionally, it’s just the younger guys, college and high school mostly, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. Perhaps it is just a passing fad, just young guys emulating their rap stars, we can only hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/58 "2004-02-12T22:49:21Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > But there was this one young black guy I would see in the city, about once a week, standing just around the corner from my apartment. He would stand there with his hand planted firmly down the front of his pants. What the hell is the deal? He wants you. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/59 "2004-02-12T23:22:25Z")
The original pioneer crotch grabber was Michael Jackson, so clearly this isn’t something that just black people do. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776/60 "2004-02-12T23:42:38Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The original pioneer crotch grabber was Michael Jackson, so clearly this isn’t something that just black people do. Was Michael still black when he did it? Or already bleached and plasticized? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-hand-down-my-pants/228776.md?page=4)