Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: The Trayton Martin shooter had a concealed weapons permit [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)When I think hoodie, I think about the ladies I took to the doctor last week in their "bedazzled" hoodies.
I thought hoodies were coming out of favor amongst the fashionable urban wearers, along with those stupid "show me your asscrack" trousers, being replaced by retro-hats of assorted iterations, and trousers worn with belts and quite fitted.
Then again, I'm no stylist, either, but I also haven't seen those bigass pants in a long time, except perhaps in rural locales, worn by white freckled lads in turned-backed caps with fake bling around their necks... where they're ten years behind the times. And even that last sighting was well over a year ago -- it was all I could do to not burst out laughing at the poor kid's desperate effort and abject failure. Had it been around Halloween, I would have taken the outfit to be a costume.
I just feel as though the whole "hoodie" image is as out of date as those "toughs" in duck-tailed haircuts, pointed shoes, cuffed jeans, white tee shirts, white sox, and leather jackets!
When you see granny in a hoodie, it just doesn't have the same drama, and likely never will again. It's been mainstreamed.
But maybe your point is there--some dogwhistles are very subtle, I will acknowledge that, having heard plenty of them myself over the years. Probably the Santorums think a black kid in a hoodie, even if it's blue and says YALE on the front of it, equals "crook." Ya can't fix stupid.