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Kids Today With Their Hair and Their Clothes...
One must exercise considerable patience on the Friday of a holiday weekend on Canal Street, if one is actually trying to get anywhere. Block after block is packed with people looking to buy pirated designer handbags, Chinoiserie and fabulous sequined flip-flop slippers for $5.
While plodding East to the subway, I was distracted from my usual thoughts (which generally involve trying to understand the systems of lookouts and walkie talkies that the folks who sell fake Gucci/ Prada/ Kate Spade/ Louis Vuitton use to outsmart those who would arrest them) by an avalanche of reading material. All around me, prepubescent and teenage girls were wearing t-shirts that were nondescript except they said things like: "I like my men like dessert: sweet and rich," "Don't even think about getting lucky with me," and the more succinct "Sexy".
I don't object at all to freedom of expression, but I wonder what makes these girls want to wear these things. They all seem too young to have to care seriously about how they take their men, and by they time they are old enough, they will find that they would rather show, not tell, this sort of thing.
Of course, I did begin to think that I would probably not have to talk to Felix about why wearing shirts like this is problematic, creepy, unappealing, and hard to do with irony. Right now, the most extreme thing he has is his Righteous Babe creeper that reads: "Squirmer Babbler Burper Freak." This, I thought, was a happy bonus in having had a son.
But hubris must be punished. Just as I reached the subway, a teenage boy ambled past. His chest read:
World's greatest male escort.
posted by Elise at 3:57 PM
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3/09/2006 5:10 PM
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