# That trend's over, hon. Please find a new way to look skanky. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026 "2005-02-08T17:12:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/1 "2005-02-08T17:12:15Z")
I’m in one of the public computing labs at my university now. The woman at the computer next to me is wearing a pair of low-slung jeans, with the thong sticking out at the top. Oh, and the thong partially covers up a huge, freshly-done butterfly tattoo. Look–if you’re determined to look like a skank, please find a new, more with-it way to do so. That thong-over-the-waistband thing is so a couple of years ago. Besides, you’ve got to choose–do we get to see the thong, or do we get a full view of the tattoo, which runs down into the crack of your buttocks? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/2 "2005-02-08T17:16:03Z")
Dude, just enjoy the view. 20 years from now most people your age will be old and busted and you’ll long for the days when women your age looked like that. Instead you’ll be looking at Playboy and feeling like a pedophile because the women in it will be younger than your kids. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/3 "2005-02-08T17:19:16Z")
> [@Scribble](#): > > … do we get to see the thong, or do we get a full view of the tattoo, which runs down into the crack of your buttocks? Ask her. Let us know what happens. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DadWagonDriver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@DadWagonDriver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DadWagonDriver)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/4 "2005-02-08T17:21:08Z")
My rant would be more that she has a butterfly tattoo. How original. ::yawn:: ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/5 "2005-02-08T17:22:39Z")
Ditto what **Airman Doors** said…and I’m 21. 😃 [sub]I keed, I keed![/sub] Still, though, enjoy the view, or turn your head, the choice is yours. Always works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/6 "2005-02-08T17:27:34Z")
I may be in the minority here, but I think the low slung jeans look is really hot. Especially if they have on a thong and a nicely placed tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/7 "2005-02-08T17:29:35Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Dude, just enjoy the view. 20 years from now most people your age will be old and busted and you’ll long for the days when women your age looked like that. Instead you’ll be looking at Playboy and feeling like a pedophile because the women in it will be younger than your kids. Well, if I were a guy who was into women, maybe I’d do just that. But I’m a woman, and I like guys. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/8 "2005-02-08T17:30:25Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Dude, just enjoy the view. **Scribble** is a chick. I’m with you on enjoying the view though. Haj ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/9 "2005-02-08T17:37:23Z")
Ah, now I see why you don’t like it. It’s just not fair that she dresses provocatively and has guys watching here every move whereas you dress more conservatively and you don’t. :rolleyes: You have two choices: dress the way you want to and stop being so judgmental, or put on a thong of your own and have someone call you a skank so you can see how it feels. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/10 "2005-02-08T17:37:29Z")
> [@scribble](#): > > That trend’s over, hon. Please find a new way to look skanky. _confused look_ I always thought the best way to look skanky is to be a couple years behind the skankish trends. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/11 "2005-02-08T17:38:36Z")
You guys really enjoy looking at 20 pounds of butt and flanks in 10 pounds of jeans? Cause that’s what all the low-riders around here look like. Even a harbodied young teen looks weird in this incredibly unflattering fashion, and of course we’ve got lots of _ahem_ older ladies who really, really should know better wearing them. I just wish this trend was over. Then maybe I could find a decent pair of jeans again. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/12 "2005-02-08T17:40:15Z")
Um, that should read “hardbodied”. Got all excited and flustered in my hatred of this fashion. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/13 "2005-02-08T17:41:52Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Dude, just enjoy the view. 20 years from now most people your age will be old and busted and you’ll long for the days when women your age looked like that. Instead you’ll be looking at Playboy and feeling like a pedophile because the women in it will be younger than your kids. Dammit, **Doors** , your post made my 45 year old husband cry. Jess (who’s old and busted and keeps her thong tucked into her pants and all her tattoos covered) ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/14 "2005-02-08T17:43:00Z")
You can’t find a decent pair of jeans? Are you kidding? Levi’s has made the same jeans for the last 100 years or so. If they fit 10 years ago barring any massive weight gain they fit now. I wear Levi’s 560 in 42/30 and have for the last 113 years. If I get fat they fit great. If I lose weight I put on a belt and they fit great. It’s not hard to find decent jeans, unless you’re way too picky and you have to just to have the flavor of the month. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/15 "2005-02-08T17:44:39Z")
Now THAT is a hell of a typo. 113 years? I think I meant 13. At least, I hope so. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/16 "2005-02-08T17:46:23Z")
Put me down as a fan of the asscrack as well. Yes, guys like that…we are perverts. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/17 "2005-02-08T17:48:41Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Ah, now I see why you don’t like it. It’s just not fair that she dresses provocatively and has guys watching here every move whereas you dress more conservatively and you don’t. :rolleyes: Right. It’s obvious than no female can have a criticism of another female’s looks without it being about jealousy and competition for male attention. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/18 "2005-02-08T17:49:08Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > Ah, now I see why you don’t like it. It’s just not fair that she dresses provocatively and has guys watching here every move whereas you dress more conservatively and you don’t. :rolleyes: > > You have two choices: dress the way you want to and stop being so judgmental, or put on a thong of your own and have someone call you a skank so you can see how it feels. 'Cause there’s no such thing as a happy medium. And it _is_ possible to be grossed out, as opposed to jealous. I might be jealous of someone dressed sexily, but never of someone dressed skankily. My roommate last year would never wear a belt, so her assfissure would always pop out to say hi. There is no way in hell I was ever jealous of her body; I was glad that I had mine instead of hers. I was disgusted by her skanky crack. And it was hard to avoid it; the room was arranged so that her back was to me whenever she sat at her desk. Some people don’t like too see underwear/buns willy nilly, especially on someone they perceive as unattractive and unappealing. Or did you mean to whoosh us with that? ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/19 "2005-02-08T17:52:43Z")
> [@wmulax93](#): > > My rant would be more that she has a butterfly tattoo. How original. ::yawn:: About as original as having a tattoo in the first place, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026/20 "2005-02-08T17:59:25Z")
> [@AwSnappity](#): > > 'Cause there’s no such thing as a happy medium. > > And it _is_ possible to be grossed out, as opposed to jealous. I might be jealous of someone dressed sexily, but never of someone dressed skankily. My roommate last year would never wear a belt, so her assfissure would always pop out to say hi. There is no way in hell I was ever jealous of her body; I was glad that I had mine instead of hers. I was disgusted by her skanky crack. And it was hard to avoid it; the room was arranged so that her back was to me whenever she sat at her desk. > > Some people don’t like too see underwear/buns willy nilly, especially on someone they perceive as unattractive and unappealing. > > Or did you mean to whoosh us with that? What’s the difference between “sexy” and “skanky?” To me a girl either looks hot or she doesn’t. I don’t really have any subdivisions. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-trends-over-hon-please-find-a-new-way-to-look-skanky/289026.md?page=2)