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Stereotypes. Let's face
Stereotypes. Let's face it, they're all around us. Americans are overweight and lazy. Asians are extremely smart and masters of the piano, both things enforced by their easily-angered mother. As untrue as those stereotypes are, the media forces us to think those things. What do you think when you see someone clad in all black with platform boots? Oh, that's a "goth". Your typical bubbly pre-teen with name brand everything? What a "prep!" The most offensive one, in my opinion, is "emo." Take it from soneone who knows. The term "emo" means emotional, right? Yeah, no. It actually means emotive hardcore, a sub-genre of punk which originated in the 90's with bands like Fugazi and Sunny Day Real Estate. Today, it means a completely different thing. It could mean pop-rock, like My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy. Take it from a huge MCR fan, they share none of the characteristics with the 90's definition. Well, alright. I could forgive that. It's the other definition that's the reason behind this boring rant. To many kids, emo means skinny jeans, band t-shirts, and Converse. I have to admit, I have a simulaur style. But that's all it is. A style. Not a way of life. No, side bangs are no reason to cut yourself. Nope, studded belts don't genreally make you miserable. To the people asking so-called "emos" why the don't go cut themselves, maybe it's because they have no reason to do so. If they do, you probably aren't helping matters. Basically, these "emo" or "scene" kids are just people wanting to fit in. Don't we all?
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So yeah, that was my rant. Hopefully, it taught you something. Leave a comment, what's your stereotype? Apparently, mine is "scene". According to them, it's "like emo, but you don't cut yourself." Yay. -_-
submitted by Mathilda B.
(July 23, 2011 - 11:54 pm)
(July 23, 2011 - 11:54 pm)
Weirdo, weirdo, weirdo, weirdo, weirdo! :):):):) Also bookworm, "Smart Girl", "Loud Girl", and "Weird girl who wears pants on a 100 degree day." (Yeah...it's hot! Gotta change into shorts! Been having some laundry mixups lately, so....)
(July 24, 2011 - 10:54 am)
Hehehe. Well I, for one, wear jeans all year long. Short shorts make me gag. :O
(July 24, 2011 - 3:42 pm)
I agree.
My stereotype is Asian nerd who plays piano with a mother who has high expectations. However, I don't find my mom's expectations very high.
Another thing, my (old) class had something called an Asian-fail. Which meant a mark below 90% or even 95%...
(July 24, 2011 - 1:29 pm)
TOP!
(July 24, 2011 - 2:02 pm)
re: "What do you think when you see someone clad in all black with platform boots?": My immediate response would be "BOOTS! WANT THEM!" but that might be because I have a couple of friends who dress in various goth-y styles and it rubbed off on me somewhat.
re: Converse: Converse are cool. *nodnod*
re: Fitting in: Um. No. I really don't.
I was very much the "freak" of my high school class. And/or the theatre geek, which to a lot of people seems to be much the same thing. And by the end of senior year people were commenting in shock whenever I wore color/didn't wear my black peacoat, as if it's my fault I only own four shirts that aren't black or grey and don't like any of them very much.
re: "Asian-fail": My mother would always flip out at me if I got below a 90%, so... yeah.
(July 24, 2011 - 4:07 pm)
I don't really want to fit in, either. I think. I've never really taken the time to think about it, since trying would involve lots of lies (which my integrity won't let me utter) and preventing myself from ever being happy again, pretty much, and I doubt I'd succeed, anyway, but I've never thought about what it would be like to do it nautrally. I don't want to be like the majority, really; I think I'm perfectly fine as I am, but it would be quite nice if there were more people like me in the world so that people we wouldn't have to keep struggling to understand each other... But I don't want to rob them of their personalities, either; that would be really selfish. So no, I suppose I don't really want to fit in. It would be nice if people didn't care that I didn't, though.
(July 24, 2011 - 10:45 pm)
I agree. Mine is geek or nerd and future caledictorian. As for the first 2, I've looked them up in the dictionary, and they fit me quite well, but they don't seem like insults, despite the fact that they're usually used that way. The latter seems unlikely to be true, but I like it anyway. Oh, and human dictionary! I like that one, even though it's a huge exaggeration. Also, many people assume I don't like music because I don't like their kind of music, which is annoying. Also sometimes girl with a book even when she isn't reading it, usually when I'm nervous. And scientific girl. And earth (no, really! A lot of people in my class wished me a happy birthday on Earth Day, because apparently I was one with the Earth. News to me. I love nature, but...).
Personally, I don't overgeneralize. In fact, I undergeneralize. People get annoyed because I obsess over irrelevant details.
And tardigrade priestess.
(July 24, 2011 - 4:14 pm)
Oh yes. I get "human dictionary" a lot too. Mostly because I correct people all the time. But I can't help itttt *eye twitch*
(July 24, 2011 - 6:58 pm)
Someone should ban me from here after about 11:00 PM. I stop making sense. -_-. yay for my dramatic-ness.
(July 24, 2011 - 4:26 pm)
MATHILDA! It has been so long I almost didn't recognize who you were! GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU!! :) Hm, my sterotype would typically be: nerdy homeschooler (not from my looks or personality, just because I have four siblings and am homeschooled). and I do get "weird" a lot, even though it doesn't bug me. Mostly because I don't exactly want to "go with the flow" and do what everyone else does.... which makes me weird. I guess.
(July 24, 2011 - 5:32 pm)
I'm the same as you, R~D~- homeschooler just because I AM homeschooled, not because of anything I do or look like. Oh, but I'm also categorized as very, very shy. Hey, I'm not that shy... I'm just not that outgoing around people I don't know very well. :)
(July 25, 2011 - 10:37 pm)
@Converse: I wore Converse for a good chunk of the school year. No "emo", only compliments. Then again, after Rachel's Challenge, nobody really makes stereotypes.... :(:(:(:(
(July 24, 2011 - 6:49 pm)
What's Rachel's Challenge?
(July 30, 2011 - 12:01 am)
Re: Asian Fail: I'm [somewhat] glad that [some] of my friends and I aren't the only people who get yelled at by our moms for getting below 90%. :P
(July 24, 2011 - 8:09 pm)
Re: Being yelled at by moms: Well, for some of us it's more self-imposed than anything else. No one yells at me, but I'm very perfectionistic and so if I get less than 90-ish I feel like a failure, particularly if I know I could have done better. My parents are usually the ones going, "No, look, you're not a failure, this is a B+, so shut up and stop whining." Though they have been known to get annoyed with me if they know I just wasn't trying enough.
(July 26, 2011 - 9:49 pm)