Stereotyping Rant
Stereotyping Rant
Well here’s my rant about one of my biggest pet peeves ever, if not my biggest.
People who stereotype. You people irk me, and you piss me clean off. Just had to say that first.
I honestly hate it when people stereotype. I don’t understand it, and it makes me angry when I see people pushing me away or making fun of me because I’m not just like them. My school is full of people who stereotype, just like every other. The sad thing is, so do the teachers. I know a lot of teachers stereotype, even though they say they don’t, but it irks me that the people who are trying to make us understand it’s wrong to judge people, are judging us ourselves and picking favorites, by who’s the smartest, or nicest, or who dresses the best.
I was sitting in class one day and we got into the topic of this, and our speech teacher asked if clothes effect your popularity or how much you are noticed. Of course we had people on both sides, yes and no, and of course, I was on the yes side. Honestly, a lot of people at my school are stereotypical because they are those people who have money and buy all the ‘best’ clothes and usually get everything they want. I will admit some of them are nice, and I am friends with a few, but the rest are so snotty about the fact that they have more than the rest of us. They like to borrow each others clothes a lot and it cracks me up because all of them in my class said yes, clothes do effect your popularity. I said it did and I asked them honestly, if someone walked through the door wearing a huge label like Gucci or Channel, would they want to be friends with that person? Guess what they said. They said yeah. I asked if someone walked through the door wearing Wal Mart clothes, would they want to be friends with them? They said maybe, it depends on what their clothes look like. It makes me wonder how these people live by what people wear. There’s a quote that is so true, and I’m going to paraphrase since I don’t remember who it’s by, but it says ‘Fashion is something so hideous, that we feel the need to change it every season.’ It’s like what the band Incubus says in their song Beelzebub (Zee Deevil) which is about stereotyping: ‘Since when did what we pay for colored cloth gauge our gravity?’
I know this clothes thing is true, because people like to judge me and the group I hang with because we wear black, or shop at Hot Topic, or because we like to play video games all day, we like to play Magic the Gathering, or D&D (which is not of the devil people, it’s based on Lord of the Rings). Well in all honesty, that just makes you stupid to me. People at school know us at ‘the Goths’ even though we don’t wear black make up, we’re not pierced (well Casey has his tongue pierced), we don’t worship the devil, we’re nothing like Goths. It was funny because my friend Erin tried to make a point that nobody at school would know a goth if they saw one, and she pulled it off. She wore all white with white and black makeup, and people had no idea. The neo (or new age) goths wear all black and white and black makeup, but stereotypical people wouldn’t know that because they’d rather make idiots of themselves. If they even bothered to talk to us, they’d find out we’re smarter than they are (because most of us make nothing below B’s and A’s, and the rare occasional C, unlike a lot of stereotypical people at school who manage to fail Speech class where we just watched movies the whole time.) Also, a lot of my friends (and guys if you read this, don’t get mad at me please! I’m not being mean and you know that, I’m actually sticking up for you guyses!) are on the chubby side and as the stereotypical people say, ‘Black is slimming.’ It works the same way with us, and if you ask some of them, they’ll tell you the same thing. We’re also funnier than anyone else at school, and if you do manage to befriend us because you weren’t too busy stereotyping us, then you’d quickly find out, we’d glady break our necks for you. Some of us would even be willing to get arrested for you (lol, sorry had to say it!).
When you people stereotype us, we just make fun of you behind your back, and trust me we could get you better than you could EVER get us, not that we would waste our time doing it. You just make fun of us, and this is how we came to have that ‘I don’t care what anyone thinks of me’ attitude, and if you ask me, it was a good lesson and a benefit to us, because we’re willing to make total idiots of ourselves in public and not care, and we’re some of the nicest, most honest, polite people you’ll ever meet. If you stereotype us though, we will stereotype you. It’s ‘what goes around, comes around.’
So people, don’t stereotype, it make you look like an idiot, and since you seem to care about how many people like you, you won’t make many friends that way. So don’t label me, and I won’t label you.
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