Posted on 01/23/2005 7:19:43 AM PST by SandRat
It used to be red - before an unfortunate encounter with a bottle of bleach.
That's the last time anything even remotely pink hung in my closet.
Let's face it, pink is for little girls, Barbie, and of course, the inmates at the Maricopa County jail.
For some time now, those in fashionista Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lockup have worn pink underwear and slept on pink sheets.
Now they're wearing pink handcuffs, fluorescent, during transport.
Seems Sheriff Joe was losing his regular handcuffs to his own deputies and other law enforcement agencies.
So he ordered up a thousand of the day-glo variety, at close to 20 bucks a pop.
Two questions keep nudging into view here:
œ Why are law enforcement types stealing Sheriff Joe's handcuffs? Isn't this, well, theft?
œ Doesn't Sheriff Joe know that pink is hot? (and we don't mean as in Fahrenheit).
Rappers and hip-hop artists have been seen wearing pink attire and shoes - a trend attributed to Harlem rapper Cam'ron Giles.
For a while, Giles was reportedly even carrying a pink cell phone and driving a pink Range Rover.
While word on the street has it that this young rapper may not be quite so enamored of pink these days, his embrace of the pastel - past or present - certainly punches it up several notches on the ol' "butch" scale.
"Do real men wear pink?" isn't even worth asking if rappers do.
One has to wonder if Sheriff Joe had even an inkling of this when he ordered the cuffs, in his seemingly never-ending quest to make girlie men out of his prisoners.
I think not.
He might as well have ordered up red bandannas while he was at it.
If Sheriff Joe hadn't a clue, the same can't be said about eagle-eyed school officials in at least one Indiana town.
Last spring, administrators banned pink clothing at the city's high school and two middle schools in Merrillville, Ind.
According to The Associated Press, officials were concerned that the color heretofore associated with baby blankets and Barbie's underpants had somehow been co-opted by gangs.
District superintendent Tony Lux reportedly said that dressing in pink could be "suspicious behavior."
Oh, great. One more warning sign parents have to look out for these days, along with teens wearing saggy pants and exhibiting a surly attitude.
Shocking.
But fed-up parents, it appears, weren't having any of it. Instead, they flooded the school with calls, asking if this meant their daughters' pink prom dresses should be returned.
Ten high-school boys also showed up at school wearing pink golf shirts and pink shoelaces.
While that sort of attire is allowed at just about any country club in the country, it wasn't good enough for Merrillville High, where the principal asked the boys to change.
("Eeek, he's wearing a pink polo shirt, Ethel. Duck!")
Meanwhile, back at the Maricopa County Jail, Sheriff Joe told the press, "We presume nobody else has pink handcuffs."
Don't count on it.
At least one boutique in Phoenix is selling pink metal handcuffs for $9.99.
You can also buy them - pink and furry - for $17.99 at Fascinations, here in Tucson.
Something tells me this isn't quite the same bondage Sheriff Joe had in mind.
Oh, great. One more warning sign parents have to look out for these days, along with teens wearing saggy pants and exhibiting a surly attitude.
Harrrrr-Rumpffff! I don't know about you but when I was growing up exhibiting a surly attitude earned my a good solid back of the hand across my face. If that didn't change the attitude then I heard the dreaded sound of leather clearing belt loops.
LMHO! Great description!
The Air Force wears pink shoes.
"Oh, great. One more warning sign parents have to look out for these days, along with teens wearing saggy pants and exhibiting a surly attitude."
Nothing bad if your 'bundle of joy' can come home with leather, low-slung pants, studs, wild hair, packing a knife and gun, out of breath from running from the cops but you better worry if the little waif has pink sox!
no,..no,..no,... that's the Hair Force that wears pink shoes the Air Force wears black patent leather shoes.
Long before then mine would have been handed over to the likes of Sheriff Joe for a little "Attitude adjustment."
At one time one of the fighting military services called their khakis 'pinks' but that's before even my time.
If the author equates the ignorant, misogynistic trash of the rap world with "real men" - Then she's got a lot to learn.
Referring to women as "hos" and "bitches" and acting tough when holding a pistol sideways do not a mensch make...
Can't go nekkid, since Crayola has gotten rid of "flesh" as a color. I guess burnt sienna will be legal.
a gannif yes, a putz yes, by his actions in the rap crowd a schmuck yes, but not a menshe.
Lol.
I stand corrected.
Thus speaketh ye olde man. Lol.
I hate that sound....and I was never on the receiving end of it! : )
It was the army and they weren't kahkis. It was the officers dress uniform and they were called pinks nnd greens.
You just gotta love him.
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