It’s that time again, the warm weather (for the most part) is back, and so is the sunshine. But, I keep seeing everybody’s moon. Partial or not, I really don’t care to see it at all.

Ladies, I know that you’ve been hitting up the gym and you’re proud of your legs and you finally got your razors out and shaved them now that we can stop wearing pants all the time. Believe me, I’m there with you.

However, you walk alone on the path of having your buttcheeks sticking out and your panties on display. “Nair wears short shorts,” but should Aggies? All the time I hear girls talk about how hard it is to find a good man at A&T or how they’re tired of being approached disrespectfully, but what kind of attention are you attracting? I know you’ve heard this before so I’m not going to say it again, but I will advise you to be part of the solution, not the problem.

I will advise you to stop talking about “she’s a ho” and you walk out of your room dressed like one.

It’s a little late to pull on your shorts AFTER you leave your building for class, just as it’s overdue for my Aggie women to start being accountable for one another. Nobody wants to be told what they can and can’t wear and I feel you on not being able to wear short shorts in high school because of dress code violations, but that doesn’t mean you have to take it to the opposite extreme.

By now, you know your body type. It’s not just something you woke up with this morning that wasn’t there yesterday. So let’s dress like it, shall we? You knew what you bought when you bought it and as cute as you and your friends think it may be, the professional world doesn’t play that. Period.

“Her booty got swag.” Well, let’s talk about YOUR booties, fellas. How come I know that you have on Spongebob boxers? Why does campus begin to look like a Fruit of the Loom or Hanes commercial when the weather gets warm?

It’s bad enough that you sag your pants when it’s cold (which makes NO sense, if you’re trying to keep warm), but then you sag your shorts, which makes it look like you have on high-water pants.

Come on, now. You want to get your grown man on, then act like one. Sagging doesn’t make you hard nor do I feel you like you really need “space” for much of anything to need to sag in the first place. I’m sick of living on a campus where everyone acts like it’s a big fashion show.

“Oh, let me walk down John Mitchell with my fly new clothes so everyone can see me; but I don’t like the way you’re looking at me. That is so rude.”

Let’s define rude: discourteous or impolite, especially in a deliberate way.

So explain why you deliberately buy clothes that don’t fit. Why do you buy pants that force you to keep pulling them up or keep tugging your shirt down? Me having to sit in class and look at your underwear because your pants come down when you sit down is just plain rude. In no way is me seeing your thong or your boxers polite.

Sagging is not something that heterosexual males should do. You know where it originated and you still do it then have the nerve to say, “no homo” when you say something to your boy that sounds questionable but hell, you walking around with your boys, pants at your knees, butt hanging out. Oh, but no homo, right? Sexuality is a lifestyle and whichever you choose is your choice and in no way am I discriminating against it, but if you really want to be real, then once again, act like it.

Skinny jeans and small shirts are becoming increasingly popular for girls AND guys. Your style, your money (maybe) that paid for it, your reputation that goes down the drain when you do what? Don’t buy clothes that fit. My advice is, if you’re not going to buy clothes that fit, learn how to do laundry.

If you leave clothes in the dryer too long, they will shrink. If they shrink when they were too small to begin with, what do we have? “Booty, booty, booty, booty rockin everywhere!” It’s no longer “Miss New Booty,” the guys are doing it too.

There are a lot of things on campus that we, as students, do not have control over; however, the way we present ourselves—not just to our peers but to our professors and older alumni is certainly not one of them.  

• Stacie Bailey