Awesome writing. And to think I lived in New Orleans for 4 years...AND wore tight little low-cut jeans...and now that I've gone, they're deciding against it? Hmmm...Maybe they don't think anyone would look as good I did, hehe. Or maybe they just have too much fucking time on their hands over there. But then what do you expect from a place where it's commonplace to see run-down strip clubs with crack mommies dancing while 7 months pregnant and then birthing their crack babies on a dirty stage? What do you expect from a place with a horrid economy and perhaps the worst education system (asides Mississippi)where they shut down the schools for a week during Mardi Gras?
--rzzz
05/10 |
So, it sounds like it's been decided by The People: you may wear low-rise jeans if you look ok (to most people's taste) while doing so. If not, then please refrain, for the good of everyone. Of course, it is your legal right to look offensive if you want; I certainly don't agree with any legislation on what people can wear. But, it is up to the wearer to show a little bit of politeness and good taste. If people are going to want to hurl when they look at you, this is no more to your benefit than it is to theirs.
--df
05/05 |
I would also like to mention, for the record, that I'm not a tanorexic sorority girl, nor do I diet, nor am I against a bit of chub. I have a bit of chub. We all have a bit of chub. But my fucking pants fit, and I don't have the fat overflow problem. Eeew. Eeew. Eeew.
--kf
05/03 |
Low-rise jeans are fine. I own them, I rock them. The problem is all the fat chicks going around flashing their love handles to the world because they're too fucking chubby to pull off the look, or too stupid to buy a pair of pants that actually fits. So they vaccum pack themselves into these super-low jeans, and they show off their stretch marks and love handles. Some of these people aren't even overweight, they just need to PULL THEIR FUCKING PANTS UP. Or, Jesus Christ, wear a belt. You can still belt those jeans, y'know. Keeps them where they're supposed to be instead of letting them ride down so low as t o be a waist-corset, pushing femme-chub over the top in a disgusiting spillage of lard. Lard that, under a better-fitting pair of pants, could be called "butter" or "curves". Something good like that. A little softness is good. But not with tight, low-rise jeans. That's just nauseating.
--kf
05/03 |
I think this is what Carrie is great at writing - short snappy opinionated pieces. Awesome. I loved it.
--RR
05/01 |
ARRRGGGHHH!!!! Why do we have to share a state with the rest of Louisiana? New Orleans is one of the more liberal cities in the U.S., yet we always end up with headlines like this or something involving cock-fighting, serial-killers, or former kkk members being elected to the legislature. Sometimes I'd rather live in Arkansas.
--NOLA
04/30 |
There's a common perception among Louisiana legislators that young people's minds are firmly held in their asses. So his comment makes perfect sense.
BTW, the rest of Louisiana doesn't (and can't, I think) claim New Orleans as part of itself when it comes to anything but the state tax funds it brings in. That's why Trent Reznor is allowed to live there. All that crap about Texas being a "whole 'nuther country" is just lifted off the Crescent. Point being, N.O.'s primary export is titty. LOUISIANA'S primary export is bad PR.
(Thanks to Lafayette, though, big ol' butts is #2.)
--OBO
04/30 |
In the interests of placing this article in proper context and judging the proposed standards for ourselves, can we please see a picture of the author in said favorite jeans?
--GA
04/29 |
*blinks*
Wha'? I hear something like "Fat girls in ultraultralowcutoneinchzipperstretchjeans"? Heaven, sheer unadultereated heaven.
*does that cartoon-style, collapse on butt with legs outstretched, eyes spinning, tongue lolling, drooling, dazed grinning... ummm... tribute?*
Yeah, tribute.
IR, reading today for purient interest.
Artistic and intellectual reading ability to return tommorrow, ... or rather, within 72hrs of last envisionment of topic on hand.
Eat girls, eat. Please?
--IR
04/29 |
It would be nice if Nerve/you included a picture of Carrie/you in said super-lows.
--REW
04/29 |
Carrie, don't you have kind of a big, fat butt? Maybe not everyone wants to SEE your asscrack. Maybe nobody does.
--df
04/29 |
Ms. Wilner you are one of the most enjoyable Writers to read. IT's always a pleasure to see you've posted something new. YOu should just try and do it more often.
--sd
04/29 |
Wow! I can't believe you actually posted what I wrote. This is unbelievable for me. I've never been published before. I realize this is small time, but really, for me this is just so exciting. I can't help it. It's so mind-blowing, I think I need to ... Uhh. Hold on... I think I need to go take care of something. Let me see, what'll it be this evening... Augustine? Barth? Aquinas? Bonhoeffer, or is that Bonehopper?
--wnl
04/29 |
When I beats my meat, I can still read theology, but I think that's what he meant, was that it would hamper a young student's ability to concentrate on more cerebral things, and yes, we all do study at times. And to be fair, I never beat my meat before I was 23, so I don't know if I am able to concentrate on theology and chuck my pud at the same time only because of my "theological maturity," or better put, longer experience at reading theological texts prior to any chicken whanking experience whatsoever. But I think the gist is that it might be, for the typical teen, or even college boy, much more difficult to ride high on Kierkegaardian clouds while the jism is rising in his main vein. Let's be fair to politicians. It's a liar's job, and somebody's gotta do it. I hope I haven't uttered any blatant expression of bigotry, sexism or hatred. Forgive me in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior if I have. He'll forgive virtually anything; you don't even have to be coool.
--wnl
04/29 |
Random thoughts:
The "aesthetics" argument: can we also legislate against fat hairy guys who walk around in wife-beaters, or *shudder* those "sports" sleeveless shirts with the the 18-inch diameter armholes that allow you to catch a profile glimpse of man boob?
The "gives new meaning to crack whore" argument: Yeah, I am with the previous poster about not enjoying sitting behind some chick (or guy), svelte or not, exposing 3 inches of floss-covered crack through an open-backed chair. But I could say the same thing about boob-tops too (yeah, you know the ones I'm talking about)--if you're hanging so far out (top or bottom) that an 85% straight, nice midwestern girl like me can't keep my eyes off it when I'm supposed to be focused on work or school, please save that shit for the club scene.
--mr
04/29 |
The low-rise, show off the top of your underwear look for guys is known as "jailin'." It's a prison look because in the joint men cannot have belts. The irony is that the look will now draw you a prison sentence. It's come full circle.
--DCEG
04/29 |
Re: LOuisiana ass crack...
Carrie, how old are you? 12 possibly?
This article sounds like adolescent hold-my- breath-til-I-turn-blue humor! Have mercy! It's only LOusiana. Seriously, your ass- crack is probably a wonder to behold butt don't put it out there unless you want to give it away.
--RM
04/29 |
I can't love unsolicited glimpses of Carrie's underwear if she doesn't provide any images. give us some visual aids, baby.
also, that guy who wrote in feedback about Dan Savage got it all wrong. Dan isn't against underwear showing out of low-rise jeans. Dan is against fat girls wearing low-rise jeans regardless of whether or not their underwear shows.
--ndm
04/29 |
I cant stop looking so it would be great if it was banned, even harder to stop looking at then!
--P
04/29 |
whadya expect from a nation of nuts sluts and pervs?
--T
04/29 |
is the accompanying photo of grant faking a feel-up with some other random nerve employee? because that'd be hot.
--am
04/28 |
As much as I agree with your statement that there's no connection between "raising their minds" and "raising their pants," I can't agree with the argument as a whole. I'm a young, sexy woman who takes pride in her body and adores lowrise pants. And yes, I do find it somewhat titillating to show just a tiny bit of a black thong. But some people go a LOT farther than that.
I was at a stop on the highway a few weeks ago when I spied a girl there, presumably, with her father and brother. She was wearing (and this is no exaggeration) lowrise cargo pants with that silly little "peek-a-boo" butterfly thong no less than two inches above the seam of her pants... STANDING UP!
I find this utterly unattractive- unless you plan on heading to a bathroom stall with a redneck on 81 while Pops waits for the guy to finish (of course, if that was her intention, then kudos!) I can't stand sitting in a classroom with a "tanorexic" sorority who has her underwear peeping out in a not-as-sexy-as-slutty manner. I'm not even a guy and I find that distracting!
I'm not going to defend the poor, mislead politician. I will say that people need to realize that if there is more than (oooh let's pick a number) a centimeter of ass between your pants and your underwear being shown off to the world, buy a belt!
--RAD
04/28 |
Fuck Carrie, I love you.
--SE
04/28 |
If its not one thing its another!!!! Are politicians really that bored or clueless that they have nothing better to worry about than teenage ass crack? Absurd!!!
Good read though! Thanks!
--CMO
04/28 |
I think I read somewhere that Paris, France has banned exposed thongs. If your panties peek above your wastline you get a ticket. I personally don't like looking at ass floss but I respect a woman's (and in some cases, a man's) right to floss. Keep low rise jeans SAFE and LEGAL!
--MCH
04/28 |
Carrie, on behalf of the lucky men you encounter when you're wearing Superlows: Please do not wear underwear at the same time.
--BJM
04/28 |
This was the best piece of writing you've put up on Nerve. This was worth the read. Nice job. But you never really struck me (or perhaps any of us) as the kind of girl who wears underwear (read: panties) at all.... come here often?
--ME
04/28 |
Seems as if the good old US of A regularly wants to legislate the hell out of any irrelevant topic and do nothing about the things that matter. Luckily here in Africa (where I live) it's part of the culture to just let it all hang out.
--UI
04/28 |
I love it!
There's nothing sexier than a pair of low-rise jeans, on the right woman. Thank you, Ms. Wilner, for sharing what you've got.
--PDH
04/28 |
Never, EVER, underestimate the ability for any elected official (of any political persuasion) to embarrass himself and his constituents by saying something profoundly stupid. Certainly, 90% of the women I see wearing low-rise jeans end up looking LESS attractive than they would otherwise, but this simply means that I point and giggle at them when they're turned the other way. But if low-riders were banned by law, what would I do then for amusement?
--DD
04/28 |
wow, that was some real hard hitting stuff. screw the man!
--kwk
04/28 |
1 entry found for defenestrating.
de·fen·es·trate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-fn-strt)
tr.v. de·fen·es·trat·ed, de·fen·es·trat·ing, de·fen·es·trates
To throw out of a window.
--BG
04/28 |
Life is strange. Check out Dan Savage''s "Savage Love" this week for the one and only time a Seattle santorum-swilling fag has agreed with a fascist Louisiana Representative. Both of them seem to have reachedadulthood without mastering the art of looking away. Carrie, right on.
--ms
04/28 |
That it was a good read.
--mp
04/28 |
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