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Re: Re: Re: Luxury (no OtR)
On 6/12/01 9:50 AM, quoth the brilliant shadow at teuton_org at
shadow at teuton_org:
>>
>> People who call themselves minorities when they're not really annoy
>> some of us who actually are.
>
>now you have activated my curioisty levels - your minority is goth?
>
>is it bad/non-comunity-healthy to be proud of your minorityish state? i
>have a hard time with that one. in some senses, you should be willing to
>be part of something and not ashamed of that fact, and in others you
>should (it seems) not stray too far from the norm. i hate the norm. i even
>hate mostly the norm's wardrobe.
Snarf! No, that wasn't the minority to which I was referring. But being a
minority-- black, gay, deaf, Jewish, disabled, whatever (and no, I'm not
all of the above!)-- isn't always a wonderful or romantic thing. There
are a lot of problems associated with it, here especially. Try being
black in the South, still. Or gay, for that matter. Or deaf almost
anywhere.
In a lot of ways, being a minority means you're marginalised, prejudged,
and treated as an anomaly. It can be a struggle, and a bitter one. And it
rubs me the wrong way for someone who's in the majority to say how
difficult life is because he or she is in a minority. Ask Martin Luther
King if he thinks your life is a struggle. Go to England and ask the next
Pakistani you see.
As for the norm's wardrobe, I'm with ya. I'm going tonight to have some
gothy portraits taken so I can start selling my corsets online. What the
world needs now is more corsets!
PS:
Yeah. I think I may have overreacted, too.
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