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 Hoodies Banned? Whatever Next!!3 comments
25 May 2005 @ 15:05, by Enocia Joseph

Have you heard of the shopping centre that has recently banned young people from wearing hoodies for fear of anti-social behaviour. (see article) First they tell us what to wear and now they tell us what to wear when we go to certain places or else. Who do they consider to be "young people." What if you look a lot younger than your years and are wearing a hoodie, does this mean you're not allowed in?

Incidentally, last night I watched a documentary on television called The Monastery about a group of ordinary men who volunteered to spend 40 days and 40 nights in a monastery. Last night was the final episode. I was amused to note monks wear hoodies, though some might call them cowls. I wonder if young monks are allowed into the same shopping centre? What about nuns who also wear hoodies? There must be a nun out there who does the occasional window-shopping as it must get tedious being in a convent, day in, day out. Sorry mother-superior, you've got a hoodie, you can't come in. Hehehe!

I think hoodies have got a bad name because of the likes of Darth Vader of Star Wars who went from being an honourable Jedi knight to being enticed by the dark side. Surely, you can't tar everyone with the same brush as Darth Vader.

I believe all this hullabaloo is good publicity for the shopping centre which is not getting a single mention from me, though you will find the name in the link provided. Hehe!

I definitely won't be going shopping there as I know I'll be kicked out. I am a hoodie wearer and proud of it.

Love and Light,
The Hoodie

previously posted at Vector8 Journals


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25 May 2005 @ 20:52 by vaxen : Hey...
cute! I wear a hood too! You might toy with the idea of getting a bunch of 'hoods' together and 'hooding' that place. ;) Have your defense well plotted out but if you are aware of the UCC that shouldn't be too hard. Bottle rockets anyone? Oh that really smacks too much of 'independence' now doesn't it? Read them 'the riot act.'  

26 May 2005 @ 00:50 by jmarc : banning certain clothing
in public sure sounds strange, yeah? What are they thinking? Let them wear what they want. Clothes make the man , they say, so why get rid of the indicators of who the man is?. What's next? Tuxedos only? Well, if i see a guy walkin, or shufffling, i should say, down the street with his pant waste about knee level, and enough gold chains to make Mr. T jealous, it tells me something i need to know about the feller. Take away these indicators, and well, why would you? Strange.  

28 Jun 2005 @ 19:05 by craiglang : Tradeoffs
We live in an inner ring suburb of Brooklyn Center, MN. In the last few years, the inner city of Minneapolis is expanding outward to include (socialogically) suburbs such as ours. What I've noticed is that there has been a very large amount of change within the shopping malls near to our home. Some of the larger chains have pulled out, while those that remain have difficulty making a go of it, financially.

One thing that the mall owners have tried to do is to encourage smaller - especially ethnic business - to move in. This may work OK but, unfortunately, one thing we've seen is that there is alot of "hoody" type of folks now hanging out there. While that, too, should be OK, there tends to involve alot of posturing of tougness, macho, etc...

Social analysis aside, this simply ends up being intimidating to other customers. The end result is that it makes it more difficult for the shops (including local and ethnic busninesses) to make a go of it. When the customers they need end up being intimidated by "hoodies" then everybody loses.

There always seems to be a tradeoff. Freedom of experession is vital if an open society is to thrive. However, those doing the experessing need to respect both the customers and the businesses. If they don't then the whole system collapses and everybody loses.  

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