people make me angry
i don't think i'll ever understand what prompts people to be cruel. it's obviously not a concept i'm unfamiliar with, but when i'm cruel, there's at least some basis for it. i'm never needlessly harmful
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There might have been a good point for this woman to make, but yes, she clearly does need to crawl back under the rock from whence she came. Time and relevance have passed her by, and I, like the rest of you, don't care what she has to say.
So allow me to make the point in my own way. There used to be a time when getting a tattoo, or piercing, or boob job, or whatever other modification, was original. But, as was said earlier, whether people want to admit it or not -- and they usually don't -- the majority of people who undergo these kinds of changes do it because they saw them on someone else.
Most women get their breasts enlarged to look like girls on TV. The tramp stamp? Again, monkey see, monkey do. And it's the same way with facial piercings. A small group of people, years ago, started doing it. Since then, the overwhelming majority of the pierced did it because they wanted to look like what they'd seen.
If you're a thinking person, you can extend this argument all the way out to encompass just about everything we say or do. Most of our lives are according to custom -- wearing clothes, eating three meals a day, etc. So yes, we're all just followers.
The problem is, probably in body piercing more so than any other thing a person could do to himself, a common argument is that it's done to be "different." It's hypocrisy, and that's part of why I'm anti-piercing. Different from whom? What is the piercing supposed to represent? It's not like wearing a cross or BDSM emblem around your neck.
Yes, Renée, I know you said that's not why you want to get pierced. Well, I just don't like how it looks. Too bad for me.
But if we exclude you from the argument, I suspect I'm right. Most people who get pierced to do something different are more like sheep than they think. Any denial of that is just that -- denial.
Want to be different? Put your brain to use and make the world a better place.
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