I am a fan of asscrack. Course I like it on men, so we probably differ a little bit there, but, hey asscrack, all for it myself. 
It’s different for women - honestly.
I have a perfectly “normal” body. Normal weight, normal height, normal proportions.
Do you think I can find pants that fit? Not a chance. Women’s styles change. A lot. I could find all sorts of super-low rise jeans that might fit a 90 pound 12 year old who likes showing some serious ass crack. I could find all sorts of super-high rise jeans that might fit a 90 pound 60 year old who likes having their pants up near their collarbone.
I can’t find anything in the middle.
The gender-preference may vary but the single-minded horniness remains the same.
See, but for a whole lot of people, Levis didn’t fit 10 years ago. Not attractively, anyway. I haven’t been able to wear Levis since I hit puberty and started getting hips. Let’s just say Levis is not the friend of the curvy woman. And, of course, women tend to distribute their weight gains differently than men do. If your weight gains all go straight to the hips/ass, a small weight gain is going to change your proportions quite a bit. Then the cut of jeans that looked great before is going to look horrible.
Class.
Spoken like a man who’s never tried to buy woman’s jeans.
I have a pair of Silver jeans that I really like. They fit really well, are flattering, and I can actually sit down in them without my ass hanging out - hey I’m 32, I hardly think I need to be advertising. I want to buy another pair, because mine are getting sort of worn, and my bunny has nibbled the bottoms of them, so I can no longer wear them to my office.
Guess what - they don’t make them anymore. Now every pair of Silver jeans is cut so low that you can’t wear them without a bikini wax beforehand. And even if you decide to get the aforementioned wax, they hit at exactly the right spot to give every woman, regardless of thinness, or fittness, and nasty belly sausage - nasty, nasty, nasty.
Isn’t it easy to bitch about other peoples problems when you know nothing about them.
Airman, it’s pretty insulting to say that the OP is jealous because she’s ranting about the skank. It’s entirely possible that she’s a rightly sexy young woman herself, but just does not appreciate having to look at someone’s thong that should be tucked away under the jeans.
I consider myself sexy as hell, but you’ll never see a thong falling out of my jeans, or any of the other skank faux pas that have been mentioned. A sexy lady with class knows how to show it off without looking like a street walker. But, class is not something you can buy at the mall, go figure.
I see. So, what does skanky mean? Does it mean dirty or unclean in this context? Because if it doesn’t, I’ll take it to mean “whorish”, which is the conventional definition. When a woman dresses “like a whore”, where I come from that is an attempt to get attention from males.
Therefore, it is not unreasonable for me to assume that someone dressing “skanky” is trolling for dudes, and someone who would call them “skanky” is upset because they are doing so.
Continuing that same train of thought, why would a woman be upset because another woman goes trolling for guys? Answer: because if the men are looking at the “skanky” girl they’re not looking at her. Jealously rears its ugly head once more. And it’s manifested in the description of the woman: skanky.
Tell me I’m wrong. I’ve seen it a hundred times. A guy looks at the chick going down the main aisle at the mall and the women around him, in unison, start talking about what a “skank” she is. Or someone like Christina Aguilera comes on TV, someone formerly clean cut who turned into a “skank”, simply because she started to dress and act sexy and got the attention of men everywhere.
Don’t be hatin’. Compete or be quiet.
Should it be hidden? Why should the thong be hidden? Why is that unacceptable but low-cut blouses and halters are acceptable? Why do you get to be the ultimate judge of “class”?
To add to what CrazyCatLady and Indygrrl already said, sexy is often provacative, and doesn’t give it all away. Skanky doesn’t leave you wondering about anything; you’ve seen it all, and you don’t need any more. Sexy is often coy, like “I bet you’d like to see more.” Skanky’s more blunt, like “the cunt’s right here boys, yeah I know you wanna fuck it.”
I agree with the other ladies here Airman. Not all criticisms of women by women have something to do with jealousy.
I saw a display similar to the one described the OP once, on a girl who was significantly larger than myself…and it was not attractive. You could see the BOTTOM of her thong, with cheeks underneath. The guy I was with (who was just a friend) made a face and we turned around, trying not to laugh. It was gross…not sexy.
I’ve seen it done well, but generally speaking, you get something more like what featherlou has described.
Re: jeans that fit? In 1999, I got a pair of size 12 Mudd jeans. LERVED them! Wore them all the time…still do. About a year later I wanted another pair so I went to the dept store and looked for Mudd jeans. Size 12? Ha! Their size 12s are now more like their old size 8s. And most women do not look good in men’s Levis. Yes, they make Levis for women, but the few pairs I’ve had never really fit the way I like my jeans to fit. The problem for a lot of us is that jeans manufacturers don’t really seem to take into account that women have hips (and in my case…junk in the trunk). They make women’s jeans like men’s jeans, or like the current fad of the month, which some of us would feel dumb in.
I’m 29, I’m not wearing a pair of jeans with butterflies stitched all over them.
whats the point of having some stip of fabric jammed up your asscrack if nobody sees it?
As for the tattoo: Let’s hope she doesn’t gain a whole lot of weight in the next 20 years, else that butterfly morph into a pterodactly :eek:
Well, obviously, it’s not illegal to go about with your thong hanging out of your pants. And it’s evident that quite a few people don’t think it should be hidden.
I get to be the ultimate judge of class for myself and my perception of others. I’m not going to apologize for my opinion that letting your underwear hang out of your jeans is tacky and skanky-looking.
And halters and low-cut blouses are a whole other issues. They can be worn in a sexy way, or a skanky way, depending on the wearer. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to see a 200 lb. woman in a halter top. And I don’t want to see that same woman with low-rise pants and a thong hanging out. She’ll draw attention alright, but it’s not the same attention I’d be likely to draw.
Possible? POSSIBLE?
As the (sadly long distance) boyfriend of the OP, I will confirm that she is, in fact, one very sexy young woman, almost certainly far more attractive than the woman with the thong.
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She’s also utterly even tempered at all times, and would NEVER, in a fit of pique or frustration, say something judgemental. After all, she does NOT work as a grad student and ISN’T ridiculously busy and underpaid.
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I find it interesting that airman’s supportive “enjoy the view, dude!” response turned into an ad hominem “you’re just jealous!” attack once the OP’s perceived gender changed.
Yep. I can’t understand how your average guy, barring some weird moral objection, would find that offensive.
You’re funny.
I think AwSnappity nailed the difference between class and skank. I don’t think women are jealous of skanky-looking women. I feel sorry for them more than anything, because they don’t have enough self-esteem to interact with men on their own terms; they just give the boys what they want.
lady and alice, I’ve heard that Canadian girls started the “thong over low-riders” fashion - girls with pockets loaded down with loonies and twonies wearing low-cut jeans were showing off undies anyway, so they just went with it. Could just be a rumour, of course.
I have to disclose that I think the ass-crack pants with visable thong trend is simply silly looking.
That being said, around here, a lot of the girls in high school are quite a bit bigger than when I was there. Gone are the days of the washboard stomach, and now the order of the day seems to be pudge. Fine with me, since I was a pudge in high school too. But I NEVER would have found myself stuffed into low rise pants, with the bands of my thong buried underneath my flab, with all this hanging out for the world to see. The worst part, to me, is that I find the fashion faux-pas of the teens forgivable… however, this trend has spilled over to the twenty somethings. Ugh.
To summarize: Woman in a thong that fits, attractive. Woman in pants that fit, attractive. Woman in pants clearly too small for her, with pudge spilling over the sides, her thong visable… unseemly, and unattractive.
All this coming from a woman with a considerable amount of pudge herself.I don’t find it offensive. I do find it skanky.
So a woman either has to dress to impress all the men around her or shut up and keep her opinions to herself?