i cant really remember when i started being this way, unacceptable that is. i dont remember when black clothing became the norm, and colors like pink were thrown out almost in their entirety. i can't recall if i woke up one day and said, 'from now on i dont wear colors', or if i just gradually started wearing darker hues. i think it was the latter.
the first time i saw myself as someone who liked wearing darker colors consiously was in seventh grade. i did not get taunted for it at the time which allowed me to continue to expand my wardrobe. now its not just dark clothes that im talking about its everything, the guages, slutty tops and skirts, the boots, the chuck taylors, the excessive plaid and other ridiculous patterns i saw fit to include in everyday outfits. back in middle school noone bothered me about it, it wasnt as bad back then.
you see our country was changing alot back then, and like a school trying to make its students get along, the people of our goverment saw fit to 'define' freedom of expression. now i dont wish to sound like a crazy person, who is feeding you conspiricys, but it all happened very quickly and quietly.
basicly they went through the schools. preaching new dresscodes and values, like they did abstenance. they gave lectures of the immorality of bleak and ripped clothing the violence of chains and the disturbing mutilation of our bodys through peircings and tattoos. there was little i could do to stop the stares of the other students as they looked tword me, a living example in a sea of highschool students. i tried not to care to focus on my anger instead of the cheerleaders 2 rows up staring at my nose ring, but it was useless. the school adminastators continued this for over a year.
then it began popping up on the news. people were being fined for decency violations, and the violations were rediculous. one man was fined 50 dollars for a visable tattoo of his daughters name, another was taken to jail after refusing to remove the rings from his septum and his eyebrow. And most disturbing was a young girl of about 17 was arrested for wearing a pair of tripp pants, a corset, doc martins and having magenta hair styled in dreadlocks. it was so shocking to see our own goverment doing something like that. i never thought it was a big deal though, i never thought they would keep up with it or take every abnormal american away from their lives. God was i wrong.
Blog Category: Writing and Poetry
Playing (Music): the quiet of the library
Current mood: complacent
Added on: 02/11/2007 10:34:10
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