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Apparently Everyone’s Ditching Their Pants


Some days I wake up, skim a few “news” articles (and I’m using the term as loosely) and I’m greeted with a new trend. Apparently, women are ditching their pants. Lauren Sánchez. Sabrina Carpenter. Miley Cyrus. Wait. She ever wore pants? A whole parade of famous folks are supposedly strolling around like they forgot laundry day. And I’m sitting here wondering did they ditch all bottoms? Or are we just talking about switching from pants to dresses? Because if so, I ditch pants 95% of the time. I’m a dress girl. If someone snapped a candid photo of me on the subway, tomorrow’s headline could easily be “Local Woman Abandons Pants, Society Reels ” Clickbait, yes. Technically not wrong.

But the world is so topsy-turvy these days that I wouldn’t even blink if a celebrity went full Winnie-the-Pooh at a red carpet event. I mean, remember Kanye’s latest wife/girlfriend/placeholder (who can keep track?) showing up essentially naked and everyone whispering, “Is she okay?” Meanwhile, men? Are they ditching pants too? Would anyone notice? Or would the internet shrug and move on because only women’s legs are considered headline material?

Honestly, why do I even bother glancing at the news scroll? I’m trying to understand global events, and instead I’m getting served existential questions about celebrity kneecaps and breathable fabrics. Really?

Ok. That’s all I have to say. I’m signing off now. I have to catch up on sleep. I can tell you already.  I’ll be pant-less tomorrow. That’s right. Ill be writing my purple polka dot dress. Ha!

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  1. SMiLes Dear Miriam
    i’ve Probably related
    Before i Don’t Own any

    Long Pants and Haven’t
    Worn a Pair Since 2013 Not Even at Funerals

    True my Uncle Didn’t Like that When

    i Presented
    A Eulogy at
    my Father’s
    Funeral Hehe
    He’s Still Trying
    to Mold me to His
    Version of ‘Normal’
    That Includes TRumP WoarshiP

    NO THANKS True an Elder Lady
    At Church a FRiEnD of the Family

    And Even Co-Worker at the News Paper
    Where my Wife Worked told me i Should

    Be Ashamed
    For Showing

    my Legs at
    Church in the
    Dead of Winter
    Yet Hey Just Trying
    to Resurrect Spring It’s

    What i Do With Dance Anyway

    Year Around Back in ‘The Day’ of the
    Early Parts of Last Century the Black And
    White Photos in the Heat of July the 4th Celebrations

    Downtown Showed Most Every Man in Fully ‘Uniform’ Suits

    And Every Woman in Long Dresses Too it’s True Not Wearing

    Pants is so
    Much Better
    Than Torture
    Of Way too Many
    Clothes in Florida
    July Heat and Humidity

    As Always the Insanity of

    Human Cultures is Based

    On What Folks Can Be

    Trained to Do

    As Yes
    Mostly
    Truly ‘Insane’…

    Too Many Examples
    to Count From As Usual

    Now Even the Bottom of
    The Top of Unreformed
    Orange Grinch Who Mountain…

    With Promises of a Roasted

    Beast in Every Pot for X-Mas…

    As Usual
    i’ll Wear
    Shorts
    And Dance
    At ‘That Party’

    Enjoy Your Purple
    Poka Dot Dress
    Tomorrow

    Free to
    Express All
    Your Dots with SMiLes…

    No Matter What Color They Are..:)

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