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Originally Posted by Thanatos
so can anybody tell me why so many people feel the need to try to make themselves look like a movie star?
almost every girl I ever see walking around anywhere in this city is dressed up in the same lame-ass style... short coat with fur-trimmed hood, hip-hugger pants that are skin tight, about 1 in 5 girls with a pair of gay looking moccasins with fur trim and suede patching
the guys aren't any better... they dress exactly like the girls but make the pants baggy and the coat slightly longer and add a bunch of jewelry around the ears, neck and fingers/wrists, plus add a hat that hasn't been broken in properly so that it looks like it's brand new out of the store (which looks absolutely fucking retarded, by the way)
so why is it that people feel it's necessary to live up to this image that society has built up around the 'pop culture'?
why do women want to spend thousands of dollars getting a boob job when they look perfectly fine the way they are?
why do men feel the need to dress up like their girlfriends crossed with their favorite rappers?
is anybody in the entire world happy with who they are and what they look like?
if it's not the fur-trimmed style then it's some other pop culture style that's been played out for the past year, like trucker hats and studded belts and rolled up pant legs and facial piercings
has anybody in this city heard of a concept called 'originality'?
and don't even get me started on the emo population... you people are just plain weird and diluded... you all think you're original, yet you all dress the same and listen to the same music and think the same thoughts about how depressed you are and how tough your life is... get over yourselves
that goes for everybody who is living a dream life
find something you love to do that doesn't involve being vain and trying to be someone you're not, then DO IT
stop wasting your life in the persuit of bullshit ideals that leave you unhappy and wondering 'how come I feel like I haven't done anything with my life??'
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what exactly IS original? Since we all belong to the same society and to various subcultures within it, none of us are truly originally at any level.. Such a gripe could extend to "why do people all speak english/chinese/japanese/french"? Why are we all such conformists and why don't we just make our own language? The answer is rooted in the ideal of social belonging. Behaving in certain ways consistent with a certain group is a tool for communicating with that particular group. For that reason many of us act in similar ways that are appropriate according to occasion. Whether it be the way we dress, behave or speak, they all function as a means of communicating with, belonging to, and being accepted by a certain group. In dressing a certain way we communicate the way we would like others to perceive us, who we think we are and what social groups we think we belong to. The language we speak allows us to communicate with those who speak a similar language or dialect. Surely none of us are entirely unique from one another, but don't our similarities, and doesn't CONFORMITY have social and functional purposes?
Sure, it's cool to be "different" in a society where it seems everyone is increasingly becoming the "same", but true deviants are socially outcast and many of us don't desire to be so "unique" to the extent of being cast out of society. Many sane people's attempts to be "different" falls within the category of acceptability and are mostly just cries for attention. Many true deviants don't try, they just are.. and they are socially punished for it.
Dec 28, 04
