Social Rebellion

[0rganized_chaos]

In what ways have you felt confined by society? In what ways do you/did you defy these confinements?

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I'm writing about social rebellion and I'm looking for some inspiration from real experiences. Your personal rebellions can be as small as defying your parents or as big as leading a huge protest. Whatever you want!

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[cat_the_knife]

When I really put things in perspective, I don't think the ways in which I've rebelled are probably all that remarkable. Most of them just involved going against minor societal expectations and especially my parents' expectations.

- I'm proudly and openly childfree. That doesn't seem like as big a deal today, but for most of my life I was treated like I was scum because of it by certain people.

- I don't fit well into the traditional job scene and worked very hard to reach a place in my life where I could work at home for myself doing what I'm best at and love most. When I was younger, people saw this as a really weird thing to want and almost unanimously implied that I must want that because I'm lazy.

- I fit some of society's ideas of what a woman should be and how she should act, but not very many -- especially internally and emotionally. There are plenty of other ways in which I'm very much like a man. My mother especially has kittens over this. She badly wanted a glamorous, simpering, flirty little femmebot for a daughter, so she considers me to be embarrassing.

- I basically defied my parents big time with my choice of religion. My dad's Christian and wanted me to grow up to be a "good Christian girl". My mom's... I don't know... I guess atheist, although she's never used this label to describe herself. She doesn't believe in anything and thinks religion is just stupid. I'm pagan and openly so.