Do you let your son dress like a gangbanger?

Why, are people in gangland inherently criminal and violent?

As a 30+ year SoCal resident, cholo is pretty much synonymous with gangbanger, and most Latinos do not dress like this at all. The women tend to wear dresses more than white women do, and the men cowboy hats.

And they stole the plaid from the poor Scots.

Calling someone a cholo who is not a gangbanger even if they are Latino is not highly recommended. The word is virtually synonymous with male gangbangers.

They don't have to if they don't want to be mistaken for a gang member. In fact for exactly that reason most wouldn't.

Sorry, I'll call gang members anything I like.

You are confused about "most reasonable people" thinking this is racist.

I do live in SoCal, actually another half Latino town and I rarely see anyone dressed like this.

Heck, I got mine out and scanned them.

The you wasn't you in particular, but the generic "you".

I know that. The subject was transvestite here.

Of course it's right. You can wear whatever you like as long as you aren't engaged in indecent exposure.

I said "own", silly. They don't own it. It's free for everyone to do.

Life is rough all over. People need to get over themselves on something as silly as this and not create the minefield.

Were you that one kid, or are you speaking for them?

There is a certain amount of gender role and clothes switching in everyone. I'm not stopping them, they're not stopping me.

Nobody notices when anyone else does it. See: White Guilt Complex.

Or maybe it was too mundane for him. Sorry, they don't own the right to put on women's clothes either.

It was harmless. Not everything is about the poor transvestites, which is more about shock value anyway.