Sagging: Low Culture

"The responses to sagging say something about the different ways in which we regard male and female bodies. When women wear their jeans so low it shows off their knickers, it's undoubtedly regarded (if not intended) as sexually alluring. When teenage boys do it, it's a moral panic. Yet there's no sexual intent in sagging. We're a long way from Robert Plant and Mick Jagger wearing trousers so tight you could have discerned their religion from 10 rows back. Gay men, by-and-large, have shunned the saggy-jeaned look. In fact, pointing out that in displaying your bottom you might be making it an object of desire might be one thing that would get teenage boys to hitch their strides up."

Alex Needham, in The Guardian.
Fagburn's loving the use of the word "bottom".

• On Guardian Music today Alex Macpherson asks; 'Is Hip-Hop Homophobia At A Tipping Point?'
"Tyler, the Creator and Lil B are the latest rappers to turn the spotlight on homophobia in hip-hop, but the attention their lyrics attracts suggests attitudes are slowly changing"
Hip Hop and homophobia, like sport and homophobia, is a subject of endless fascination to the straight press, but most articles just repeat the same pious platitudes - this one makes some interesting and original points.