State Sen. Eric Adams Continues Fighting the Good Fight Against Baggy Pants (Which Are Bad Apparently)

We all thought it was not-terrible-tasting food for thought when New York State Sen. Eric Adams made his "Declaration of Pants Not Being Saggy" earlier this week. We thought about it. Thought about the implications, the messages sent, the damage done to the belt industry. Then we went on with our lives and got back to thinking about actually important things.

Most of us. State Sen. Eric Adams is holding onto this saggy pants thing. Look, he's even getting a billboard put up. And now people are saying opinions in front of television cameras. This saggy pants thing is clearly blowing up to become the issue of our generation. What side of history will you be on? (I'll probably be on the "I don't tell people how they should wear their pants" side of history.)

N.Y. State Sen. Eric Adams Wants to Fight Racial Stereotyping, Pants on the Ground

New York State Senator Eric Adams says, "If we raise our pants, we raise our image." Though, I think he's paraphrasing Frederick Douglass…

Just out of curiosity — before getting all up in arms about people's pants and their socioeconomic impacts — I thought I'd check up on Sen. Eric Adams and see how serious he was about actual non-pants-related civil rights. To see how he voted on the (ultimately defeated) marriage equality bill that went through the New York State Senate.

Long story, short: He passed the test…

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