Too manly to get away with wearing a skirt but want to be "different"? Now introducing...
THE ONE-LEGGED PANT!
Yes, I am dead serious.
Hot Topic, apparently attempting to either be politically correct or give teenage boys new reasons to hate themselves in five/ten years, has now coined the term "one-legged pants" to refer to their full-length unbifurcated lower-half covering, since to call it what it is (a skirt) would be risking a complete flop in sales of that product and complete alienation from half their shopping base.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I do have to give them credit for the insidious genius behind this idea. What a marketing ploy! "We'll just give it a new name so the kids will think it's okay to wear! They'd never wear a skirt ordinarily, but if we tell them it's something edgy and cool from Tripp called a ONE-LEGGED PANT, they'll be all over it!"
Yay for creativity and all, HT...but the simple fact of the matter is that, while these man-skirts "one-legged pants" are obviously popular since you only have them left in size XS, this term is never going to fly anywhere outside of your little corporation's bubble in City of Industry.
I mean, I wore weird, off-the-wall shit all throughout high school, but I'm a girl. And a huge, monstrously strong, Amazonian-scary one at that. Nobody would've dared given me shit for wearing anything. But it's different for boys.
There is not a high-school jock in this world who, upon hearing the cry of "BUT IT'S A ONE-LEGGED PANT!" from a skinny skirt-bedecked emo kid while he and the rest of the football team 'beats the gay right outta that fag'**, is going to think "Hey, you're right! That's not a skirt!", and proceed to apologize/help the kid up/go on his merry way. It isn't going to happen.
Let me clarify, though...it's not that I'm throwing a fit about HT encouraging boys to wear skirts. Let boys wear skirts! Hell, while we're at it, force on them the social stigma of hairy legs...but I digress. The issue here is that they're furthering the notion of men wearing skirts as being unacceptable by giving them some banal, noninflammatory (and asinine) term like "one-legged pant", so as to make it socially "acceptable" and not ruffle feathers.
And that alone is more pitiful than any fifteen-year-old boy trying to justify his clothing choice to a pack of bloodthirsty football players.
**(a phrase I actually heard in the hells halls during my own imprisonment in high school)
Yes, I am dead serious.
Hot Topic, apparently attempting to either be politically correct or give teenage boys new reasons to hate themselves in five/ten years, has now coined the term "one-legged pants" to refer to their full-length unbifurcated lower-half covering, since to call it what it is (a skirt) would be risking a complete flop in sales of that product and complete alienation from half their shopping base.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry, but I do have to give them credit for the insidious genius behind this idea. What a marketing ploy! "We'll just give it a new name so the kids will think it's okay to wear! They'd never wear a skirt ordinarily, but if we tell them it's something edgy and cool from Tripp called a ONE-LEGGED PANT, they'll be all over it!"
Yay for creativity and all, HT...but the simple fact of the matter is that, while these man-skirts "one-legged pants" are obviously popular since you only have them left in size XS, this term is never going to fly anywhere outside of your little corporation's bubble in City of Industry.
I mean, I wore weird, off-the-wall shit all throughout high school, but I'm a girl. And a huge, monstrously strong, Amazonian-scary one at that. Nobody would've dared given me shit for wearing anything. But it's different for boys.
There is not a high-school jock in this world who, upon hearing the cry of "BUT IT'S A ONE-LEGGED PANT!" from a skinny skirt-bedecked emo kid while he and the rest of the football team 'beats the gay right outta that fag'**, is going to think "Hey, you're right! That's not a skirt!", and proceed to apologize/help the kid up/go on his merry way. It isn't going to happen.
Let me clarify, though...it's not that I'm throwing a fit about HT encouraging boys to wear skirts. Let boys wear skirts! Hell, while we're at it, force on them the social stigma of hairy legs...but I digress. The issue here is that they're furthering the notion of men wearing skirts as being unacceptable by giving them some banal, noninflammatory (and asinine) term like "one-legged pant", so as to make it socially "acceptable" and not ruffle feathers.
And that alone is more pitiful than any fifteen-year-old boy trying to justify his clothing choice to a pack of bloodthirsty football players.
**(a phrase I actually heard in the hells halls during my own imprisonment in high school)