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Okay, I apologize if this is really long winded and confusing, but since I doubt anyone is reading this anyway, who cares?
I originally had a journal entry for yesterday, it was my typical crappy observational comedy, in this case dealing with the Adkins diet, something that I have always found absurb, but I wont get into that right now.
At the same time, I was scanning the message boards here as I often do, and I came across a particular thread that really troubled me, here is the link:
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Music/43768/page1/
The basic gist of this thread is that one of the Suicide Girls, Linz, went on to some elitist music board and posted her favorite bands, for which she was pretty brutaly flamed. I mean, the comments that were made to her were entirely inapproriate in any context, and to judge someone so harshly based only on their music tastes seems very crass.
But I was taken aback by how disturbed by all this. These people weren't attacking me (although they definately would were I to intrude on their hipster territory), and I don't know Linz, so it isn't like they were attacking someone close to me. At first I thought I was merely upset at the fact that people like this exist in the world. But the more I thought about, the more I came to the realization that what disturbed me was how much of myself I saw in these snobs.
I think everyone is a snob about something, wether its music, movies, food, clothes or whatnot. I can remember a time when I wore my Guided by Voices t-shirt to high school and thought I was the king shit, so much above all the masses with their peasant music. And I can remember saying some things to people at various times in my life that were probably pretty hurtful.
So in a sense, I think its useful that we all, from time to time, encounter arrogant pricks like this, if for nothing else than to remind us that you can like what you like, but being a prick to other people just isn't cool under any circumstances.
Which brings me back to my whole Adkins thing. Some time after I wrote it, I went back and re-read my journal entry, and realized how it could be misconstrued as an assualt on overweight people. So, not wanting to up the irony meter to 11 for the day, I deleted it, opting to save my assholishness for another day.
It was the least I could do. Well, the least I could do was nothing but..eh screw it.
Okay, I apologize if this is really long winded and confusing, but since I doubt anyone is reading this anyway, who cares?
I originally had a journal entry for yesterday, it was my typical crappy observational comedy, in this case dealing with the Adkins diet, something that I have always found absurb, but I wont get into that right now.
At the same time, I was scanning the message boards here as I often do, and I came across a particular thread that really troubled me, here is the link:
http://suicidegirls.com/boards/Music/43768/page1/
The basic gist of this thread is that one of the Suicide Girls, Linz, went on to some elitist music board and posted her favorite bands, for which she was pretty brutaly flamed. I mean, the comments that were made to her were entirely inapproriate in any context, and to judge someone so harshly based only on their music tastes seems very crass.
But I was taken aback by how disturbed by all this. These people weren't attacking me (although they definately would were I to intrude on their hipster territory), and I don't know Linz, so it isn't like they were attacking someone close to me. At first I thought I was merely upset at the fact that people like this exist in the world. But the more I thought about, the more I came to the realization that what disturbed me was how much of myself I saw in these snobs.
I think everyone is a snob about something, wether its music, movies, food, clothes or whatnot. I can remember a time when I wore my Guided by Voices t-shirt to high school and thought I was the king shit, so much above all the masses with their peasant music. And I can remember saying some things to people at various times in my life that were probably pretty hurtful.
So in a sense, I think its useful that we all, from time to time, encounter arrogant pricks like this, if for nothing else than to remind us that you can like what you like, but being a prick to other people just isn't cool under any circumstances.
Which brings me back to my whole Adkins thing. Some time after I wrote it, I went back and re-read my journal entry, and realized how it could be misconstrued as an assualt on overweight people. So, not wanting to up the irony meter to 11 for the day, I deleted it, opting to save my assholishness for another day.
It was the least I could do. Well, the least I could do was nothing but..eh screw it.