I dislike this growing trend of coolness, the oddity that is those who are deemed to be so.
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Maybe I'm making no sense, and maybe I'm just being cranky. Couple hours ago I read this article about this 15 year old who posesses a female body, and a male mind, and knew of this from a very young age while the mom wishes that her child would be forced to wait until a legal age limit (21) before going radical operations. I'm for it, I'm against it, I'm mostly being forced to think from it.
How many things was I doing when I was young, that have lead up to today? Getting my mom to agree to give me blond or red highlights (while I've ALWAYS insisted on blue, hairdresser never let me because it would be too damaging to my hair.) Learning some ancient version of PhotoShop where the project was “modify your own picture” and the first thing I did was add eyebrow and tongue piercings. (Before adding ear and navel piercings to Winnie the Pooh and Tigger!) The drawing on my skin with markers, but never the washable kind. Always the permenant ones that last a few days before finally washing off on their own. Buying fake earrings, buying fake noserings, buying fake liprings, tattoos, stick on ones and lick on ones galore. Even the anger-driven and hate-filled cutting and scratching had a reason and a purpose, a design and a plan.
But now the desire for this has all changed. I see and hear people getting their tattoos and think they're doing it for themselves. I see and hear people getting pierced and think they're doing it for themselves. Only problem comes when they, who are getting pierced and tattooed, think it's some kind of contest, some extremist way of comparing who's got a bigger penis, only now it's who gets the bigger needle shoved into them, or who sits still the longest through painful tattoo sessions.
At this I am disgusted, and see no future for people who can't see past their own body. I may be learning how to become a corporate whore, a slave to the media and part of the driving machine that will eventually kill us all. I accept that. I also know I have a comfortable future in this corporate world, and will never rely on my parents savings, or the government handout, or the generosity of family and friends for me to be able to live my life. Maybe I've simply traded one form of slavery for another, but at least I can accept that.
