I was just remarking on this to my wife last week. It’s time for this trend to end.
What is amazing to me is that “sagging” originated in prisons, in order to signal their “availability” to other prisoners, and yet suburban doofuses have been doing it for 12 years.
Good Lord. Hey, Mike Tirico called Padraig Harrington “Paddy” yesterday, on national television. Is he racist?
The trend seems to be lower and lower, but in a way that’s kind of a good thing. I figure when Godzilla or the pissed-off T. rex from Jurassic Park lands in town, the homeboys won’t be able to run as fast as I will 'cuz their pants will be down around their knees, so they’ll get eaten and I won’t.
I’m trying to decide whether to respond w/ “No, that’s not what I meant.” or “Yeah, but it’s ok though.” I simply mean that it’s a fashion statement from black culture, or whites emulating it. Whether that’s racism is up to you, but IMHO, if you call it racism, it’s an acceptabe form. After all, just because it’s from another culture doesn’t mean I can’t hate it.
You should have punched him in the ass.
I like the fad. It instantly labels the wearer as an idiot. Used to be, idiots could blend in just by dressing like normal people. Now they have this huge sign over their head that says “I’m An Idiot”.
(Yeah, I know, there are still normal looking idiots. It is still nice of the baggy idiots to advertise.)
People refer to wearing the pants on the hips as sagging? I’ve done that my whole life! I have wide, child-birthing hips, and so it always seemed normal to wear the pants between the belly-button and the tallywhacker.
FTR, I wear a belt and my ass is covered.
More’s the pity…
Huh, how about that. I was told that by an 18 year employee at a state prison and just figured he knew what he was talking about, never thought of checking Snopes. Thank goodness for the internet, now I can tell him he is a liar.
I seriously doubt it, because there are two powerful but somewhat oppositional factors that support it.
First, unlike earlier fads that started with teens, like jeans, or bell-bottoms (back in the day), and so on which made the jump to mainstream adult fashion, that’s not going to happen with sagging pants. Therefore, the style will never lose its offense factor with respect to adults, which makes it pure gold.
Second, like the OPs fellow passenger, there are always adults who want to look like teens.
If it makes you feel any better, I usually lounge around the house naked. 
If it helps, the “newness” I was referring to in my original post was about the fact that that the guy I saw was wearing fitted, straight legged jeans that, along with the 3 inches about his knees and the cinched belt, hobbled him. This was instead of the recently tradition of way oversized and falling-down-more-naturally baggy jeans.
He did continue with the funny looking splayed-legged walk though.