I was just at the grocery store and the very young male cashier has those round discs in his ears and the holes are HUGE. I told my husband on the way home that I can see him when he is an old man looking in the mirror and thinking why oh why did I put these huge holes in my ears?
There is a local restaurant that we frequent a lot and all the young males that work there have the HUGE holes too.
How did he get holes that big anyway? That is a real mystery on how they do it??
Next question...I saw a young guy trying to walk down the street one day and he literally could not walk because his pants were so low that he was kind of scooting down the street.
Years ago, we had a guest in our home from Canada and he did not know anything at all about the pants hanging past your waist with your underwear showing. We went to Costco and there was a young man in there and our guest walked right up to him and told him to pull up his pants. The guy just looked at him like he was crazy and walked away.
Our guest could not understand why someone would walk around like that and we had to explain to him that was what they thought was cool. He went back to Canada thinking our youth are nuts.
There have always been trends. I guess there always will be.
(But the ear gauges make me throw up in my mouth a little when I see them. Maybe that's the idea?)
Well, when I was a 'kid' or college/high school kid... the trend was Punk Rockers... skateboarders etc.
I.. had a Mohwak, colored hair, and safety pins in my ears, had multiple earrings (which I did the ear holes by myself), wore black lipstick and dressed Punk.
My parents, never flinched.
They even said I looked nice.
They had NO embarrassment about me, whatsoever.
Because, they KNEW who I was, and I was a 'good' kid and was respectful and although, outside the box as far as interests. I just had my own drum beat to go to.
I didn't do it to be "cool." It was just me.
Each era... each generation... each century, each culture, varied shades of the same theme.
Body mutilationis is right.
I can't see it, but I have never been one to fall victim to someone elses' fad. Those people with the big holes in the ears? A couple of them say they were sorry for doing it, but can't get the holes to disappear. How do they get the holes large? They pierce their ears and put increasingly larger items in the holes. Tribes in Africa have disks in their ears measuring 6" across.
I have told the guys showing off their under wear, whispered . . . "Hey, you see those people watching you? You need to pull your pants up or wash your shorts." And I walk away. ;~))
Good luck to you and yours.
Well....look at the responses to your other question. I bet our parents shook thier heads when we walked around in huge shoulder pads, hair sprayed stiff, heavy black eyeliner, parachute pants, jean jackets with Motley Crue on the back, guys with heavy metal long hair, our Madonna like a virgin phase, neon green shoelaces in our vans, I could go on.
We're old. We aren't supposed to like it. That's the point.
hahahahah love it...."um sir, you seemed to have forgotten your belt"
they deserve that, it looks awful
and as for the ear stretching,,,,yeah yuck, its not like anything but surgery can reverse that damage, and it looks silly, I dated a guy in my teen years with slightly stretched lobes and i never wanted to go near his ears. Most trends are reversible , even tattoos can be covered, or removed by laser or 'wrecking balm"....I find permanent fixtures on the body like splitting the tongue, cheek piercings, neck and face tattoos especially disturbing.
But its really eye of the beholder, at one point in time my little ankle panda tattoo and my blonde hair dying would have been positively scandalous!
I saw on the news JUST last night a young man who was getting his ear stretching removed by a 1.5-hour plastic surgery. He said that it was something he did as a kid and that it was now time to longer be stared at...to regain respect.
My husband is 14 years older than me. He was a teen in the '70s and went to Woodstock, I was a teen in the '80s. He's always making fun of my old pics and the music I liked, etc. I call him an old hippie. Neither one of us understand our kids' tastes.
I don't understand all those trends either. My boys are still young, but they will not walk out of this house w/ pants around their butts or have peircing or holes. And my husband feels the same way. I have no problem telling the young males to pull their pants up that I don't want to see their underwear. Our nephew is in the skinny jean/skater look. We hate his long hair, but thats him. Our boys won't do that either.
Ear piercing even tasteful little pearl studs), tattoos, plastic surgery.... they're all forms of "body mutilation." The question becomes: Which culture's aesthetic are they attempting to conform to? In America, we have many sub-cultures that result in many (sometimes wacky) aesthetic ideals. Anything can be taken to an extreme, and anyone is of course entitled to their opinion. I just choose not to be bothered by what other people choose to do with their bodies. (Unless it is vulgar, but that's another debate.)
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As for the peircings, I believe body mutilation is as old as dirt. I also belive its a manifistation of self hatred. I think its sad. The pants thing is lame, but then so where bell bottoms and polyester suits, white powdered whigs, and tights and knee high pants on men (the ones our founding fathers wore).
Youth of today amaze and disgust me at the same time. I don't even get any of the new trends. Oh they get the lobe bigger by putting bigger piercings in it every so often, gross! You have to know that most of these kids will probably regret some of what they do as adults.
