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The Unwritten Rules of Society
When you start high school, you already know what’s expected of you in order to be ‘popular’. You understand that you must wear “attractive” or “revealing” clothes. You know that you have to listen to the music every other ‘popular’ person is listening to; Rap, Hip Hop, R&B. You know that in order to be liked, you have to be a good looking person: attractive. Your hair always has to be a certain way; the jewelry you wear has to be as expensive as your clothes. Men have to be skinny, but built. Girls have to have a curvy and skinny figure. Men have to have a lot of jewelry, or the ‘popular’ way to say it, “Bling, Bling.” Girls have to have their makeup perfect; their hair can never be messed up;
their nails have to be painted and done at all times.
Popularity, right?
Well, then what do we think when we say ‘Nerd’? We think of a scrawny little kid with high-waters, dull white shoes every day with their socks up to their knees. We think of them wearing tucked in polo-shirts with pocket protectors. We think they are smart kids, goodie goodies, teacher pets with glasses.
The kind of kid you’d over-hear talking about the Science Fair being the time of their life.
Now, what about those Goth kids? Freaky people, who wear all black, study witchcraft and black magic. They are anti-social, depressed and suicidal poetry writers. The kind of person who would slack off in class, is apathetic, who loves hard music; metal, rock. Their wardrobe consists of nothing but black, they wear spikes, leather, chains and dark makeup. They hate everyone who, and anything that isn’t like them, or what they like.
This is typical. The way we think of these certain kinds of people, are the ways that society has taught us to think of them. Well… there are still punks, skaters, potheads, metal heads, teenies, jocks, posers, hippies, etc. You all can think of other kinds of people, the groups and clichés in your school. You all have an opinion on them, and I’m sure your opinion on them is the same as the person you sit next to in English. But, let’s get back to what you need to do to be popular, and popular in The Unwritten Rules of Society.
You need to dress a certain way.
You need to listen to certain music.
You need to be skinny.
You wouldn’t see the star quarter back player of your varsity football team dating anyone overweight. You wouldn’t see that same person dating someone who has a pimple, or acne.
But you’d see them with the captain of the cheerleading squad.
That pretty little blonde those Goth’s despise, right? We all know who I’m talking about. But, you prep’s, and jocks out there, have you ever taken an hour or two to sit down with a Gothic person and ask what they like, who they are, and what they think? And you hard core Gothic people, have you ever sat down with that cheerleader and asked her what her interests were?
No, of course you haven’t.
Because of the rules, the rules don’t allow that. That would be going against them; that would make you different. No one wants to be different from who they really are, do they?
The Goth’s don’t want the other Goth’s to see them around prep’s.
The prep’s don’t want the other prep’s to see that their best friend is a Gothic person.
That would be against the rules of their society. No matter where someone fits in, the rules work into who they are, and they are still followed.
You, you’re a jock. The big guy on campus; I know a girl who like’s you. That girl in the corner does, the one in the pink dress, see her? What? Yea, she’s a little overweight I suppose, but why don’t you go talk to her. You never know, she could be the most amazing, funny and smartest girl you’ll ever meet. You still don’t want to talk to her? But you’re not doing anything important right now… Oh, well if you’re going to be shallow about it, then fine;
stay with her.
The one who’s dressing like this because everyone else is, the one with the implants and the broken personality, you know, the fake one.
Hey, this is my friend Samantha. Wait, where are you going? I thought you wanted to eat lunch with me. Well, yea, she was going to eat lunch with me too. She’s new, and we’re good friends… Wait, why are you walking away? So what? Who cares if she’s wearing a Jay-Z shirt? Would you stop being so hypocritical and just sit down and talk to her? You’ll see what I mean, she’s a really amazing girl, and she understands things…
Fine, don’t get to know her. Keep being hypocritical, the thing that you say you hate in anyone, stereotypes who judge people from how they look on the outside.
No one says things like this. People wouldn’t do things like this, it’s against the rules. For a jock to date an overweight girl,
it just doesn’t happen.
For a Goth and a prep to get along,
that’s not allowed.
There are no death penalties for having your own mind. If you see that jock is dating that overweight girl, or that Goth hanging out with that prep, you think to yourself, “What’s the matter with him? Why’s he dating her, she’s fat!” --- “Is he talking to her? But… she care’s about what she looks like…” That’s the penalty. People push you away, because you aren’t being what’s expected. What the rules tell you to be. You’re portraying to have your own mind, how you don’t care about what someone looks like, or where someone’s placed, but you care about who they are, and don’t want to miss out it.
Welcome to Earth. Please follow ‘The Unwritten Rules of Society’.
When you start high school, you already know what’s expected of you in order to be ‘popular’. You understand that you must wear “attractive” or “revealing” clothes. You know that you have to listen to the music every other ‘popular’ person is listening to; Rap, Hip Hop, R&B. You know that in order to be liked, you have to be a good looking person: attractive. Your hair always has to be a certain way; the jewelry you wear has to be as expensive as your clothes. Men have to be skinny, but built. Girls have to have a curvy and skinny figure. Men have to have a lot of jewelry, or the ‘popular’ way to say it, “Bling, Bling.” Girls have to have their makeup perfect; their hair can never be messed up;
their nails have to be painted and done at all times.
Popularity, right?
Well, then what do we think when we say ‘Nerd’? We think of a scrawny little kid with high-waters, dull white shoes every day with their socks up to their knees. We think of them wearing tucked in polo-shirts with pocket protectors. We think they are smart kids, goodie goodies, teacher pets with glasses.
The kind of kid you’d over-hear talking about the Science Fair being the time of their life.
Now, what about those Goth kids? Freaky people, who wear all black, study witchcraft and black magic. They are anti-social, depressed and suicidal poetry writers. The kind of person who would slack off in class, is apathetic, who loves hard music; metal, rock. Their wardrobe consists of nothing but black, they wear spikes, leather, chains and dark makeup. They hate everyone who, and anything that isn’t like them, or what they like.
This is typical. The way we think of these certain kinds of people, are the ways that society has taught us to think of them. Well… there are still punks, skaters, potheads, metal heads, teenies, jocks, posers, hippies, etc. You all can think of other kinds of people, the groups and clichés in your school. You all have an opinion on them, and I’m sure your opinion on them is the same as the person you sit next to in English. But, let’s get back to what you need to do to be popular, and popular in The Unwritten Rules of Society.
You need to dress a certain way.
You need to listen to certain music.
You need to be skinny.
You wouldn’t see the star quarter back player of your varsity football team dating anyone overweight. You wouldn’t see that same person dating someone who has a pimple, or acne.
But you’d see them with the captain of the cheerleading squad.
That pretty little blonde those Goth’s despise, right? We all know who I’m talking about. But, you prep’s, and jocks out there, have you ever taken an hour or two to sit down with a Gothic person and ask what they like, who they are, and what they think? And you hard core Gothic people, have you ever sat down with that cheerleader and asked her what her interests were?
No, of course you haven’t.
Because of the rules, the rules don’t allow that. That would be going against them; that would make you different. No one wants to be different from who they really are, do they?
The Goth’s don’t want the other Goth’s to see them around prep’s.
The prep’s don’t want the other prep’s to see that their best friend is a Gothic person.
That would be against the rules of their society. No matter where someone fits in, the rules work into who they are, and they are still followed.
You, you’re a jock. The big guy on campus; I know a girl who like’s you. That girl in the corner does, the one in the pink dress, see her? What? Yea, she’s a little overweight I suppose, but why don’t you go talk to her. You never know, she could be the most amazing, funny and smartest girl you’ll ever meet. You still don’t want to talk to her? But you’re not doing anything important right now… Oh, well if you’re going to be shallow about it, then fine;
stay with her.
The one who’s dressing like this because everyone else is, the one with the implants and the broken personality, you know, the fake one.
Hey, this is my friend Samantha. Wait, where are you going? I thought you wanted to eat lunch with me. Well, yea, she was going to eat lunch with me too. She’s new, and we’re good friends… Wait, why are you walking away? So what? Who cares if she’s wearing a Jay-Z shirt? Would you stop being so hypocritical and just sit down and talk to her? You’ll see what I mean, she’s a really amazing girl, and she understands things…
Fine, don’t get to know her. Keep being hypocritical, the thing that you say you hate in anyone, stereotypes who judge people from how they look on the outside.
No one says things like this. People wouldn’t do things like this, it’s against the rules. For a jock to date an overweight girl,
it just doesn’t happen.
For a Goth and a prep to get along,
that’s not allowed.
There are no death penalties for having your own mind. If you see that jock is dating that overweight girl, or that Goth hanging out with that prep, you think to yourself, “What’s the matter with him? Why’s he dating her, she’s fat!” --- “Is he talking to her? But… she care’s about what she looks like…” That’s the penalty. People push you away, because you aren’t being what’s expected. What the rules tell you to be. You’re portraying to have your own mind, how you don’t care about what someone looks like, or where someone’s placed, but you care about who they are, and don’t want to miss out it.
Welcome to Earth. Please follow ‘The Unwritten Rules of Society’.