Post by degeos on Mar 26, 2010 20:29:17 GMT -5
Anytime I go to school, I have to wear a uniform. Anytime a person goes to a formal event like a wedding, a Bar Mitzvah, or a dinner, they have to wear a tuxedo. Anyone being interviewed for a job must wear formal clothing. Why?
Society has gotten so attached to clothing as a way of expressing one's social status. It's true that clothing can do such, but it shouldn't be used as an excuse to call someone a ragamuffin.
Clothing can identify a part of our personality. If you look at someone who is wearing a shirt advocating gun rights, a shirt advocating feminism, frowning upon religion, or other such a message, you instantly know what that person thinks on a topic. However, if you see someone in a tuxedo, all you know is that person is in the rich to middle class, the most common kind of people in existence in America.
Also, often times it's uncomfortable. The first time I wore a tie, I nearly ripped the thing off because it was so freaking uncomfortable. It distracts people if they have uncomfortable clothing, and it can make a day just that much less enjoyable.
Another thing that irks me about society's view of clothing, is that we can't stand to be without it. Nudity is, for some reason, wrong.
WARNING: THE TRUTH LIES AHEAD
Men have penises, women have vaginas and larger breasts, and we all have anuses. We all know it. So why are we so afraid of them? Is it that if we see them then we will become perverts? Well, why is sex wrong? It's just a natural event that happens whether parents across America (and across the world) want to accept it or not. Going naked should be perfectly acceptable should a person choose to do so.
ANd now the point: nothing on the outside of a person (excluding such things as satanic tattoos or things of the like) can tell a person very much about another person. We should just learn to judge people by what they do, and what they say. Not if they were black clothing or not, or if they prefer to go naked, or if they want to wear a Dream Theater shirt to a job interview.
Any thoughts or opinions?
(Keep in mind that I'm in no way the best organizer of thoughts; I may very easily have mis-stated something)
Society has gotten so attached to clothing as a way of expressing one's social status. It's true that clothing can do such, but it shouldn't be used as an excuse to call someone a ragamuffin.
Clothing can identify a part of our personality. If you look at someone who is wearing a shirt advocating gun rights, a shirt advocating feminism, frowning upon religion, or other such a message, you instantly know what that person thinks on a topic. However, if you see someone in a tuxedo, all you know is that person is in the rich to middle class, the most common kind of people in existence in America.
Also, often times it's uncomfortable. The first time I wore a tie, I nearly ripped the thing off because it was so freaking uncomfortable. It distracts people if they have uncomfortable clothing, and it can make a day just that much less enjoyable.
Another thing that irks me about society's view of clothing, is that we can't stand to be without it. Nudity is, for some reason, wrong.
WARNING: THE TRUTH LIES AHEAD
Men have penises, women have vaginas and larger breasts, and we all have anuses. We all know it. So why are we so afraid of them? Is it that if we see them then we will become perverts? Well, why is sex wrong? It's just a natural event that happens whether parents across America (and across the world) want to accept it or not. Going naked should be perfectly acceptable should a person choose to do so.
ANd now the point: nothing on the outside of a person (excluding such things as satanic tattoos or things of the like) can tell a person very much about another person. We should just learn to judge people by what they do, and what they say. Not if they were black clothing or not, or if they prefer to go naked, or if they want to wear a Dream Theater shirt to a job interview.
Any thoughts or opinions?
(Keep in mind that I'm in no way the best organizer of thoughts; I may very easily have mis-stated something)