I have a friend.
He's the kind you want to talk to when things get tough because he makes everything look a lot less serious. Can't pay rent? The streets are nice and we've got January weather. Legs aching? He once saw a man with no legs handing it across Thika road. Mother annoying you? He adopted two orphans in 2008 - they watched their mother being hacked to death, like Dexter Morgan did.
A two minute sit-down with him and you realize how problem-less you are.
But when it comes to men who sag their trousers, he is ruthless.
"You know," he says, "I was watching a video of Eddie Griffin [comedian] telling his audience how he cured his son of sagging."
He cringed and frowned, frowned and spat, spat and sneered until he really made it [sagging] sound like a disease. What Griffin had told his son, was that "sagging began in the penitentiary"and that they did it "to advertise they butt crack". The kids in the hood "thought it was sleek" and started sagging as weel
His [my friend's] argument: if women do it to attract men, why the hell else would men do it?
Understanding dawned.
I thought about all the sagging drawers I'd seen recently and thought "surely this kid had no idea what he was doing, had he?"
While none of us can really condemn a man for wanting to attract another - and don't pretend like you haven't done disgusting things when no one was looking - it's a bit disturbing to know, that along with styling hair femininely and wearing earings, our brothers, friends, boyfriends have turned to advertising their goods a the most unsightly way.
A woman's mounds are something, I understand, men enjoy looking at. But really, a man has none, so why the sag? This is why Griffins' and my friend's theories made sense.
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