Attire-awareness
Jan. 22nd, 2009 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyrasantaeSome people have put up posters around some of the buildings here, promoting a student group to get together and "promote awareness of heavy metal attire on campus" (whatever the hell that means :P). [I'd like to grab a copy of this poster sometime, just so you all can laugh at it.]
What's there to be "aware" of?
If it's for the awareness of that style of dress for people who don't already dress that way, why do you give a damn whether they are aware of it or not? If they know about it and identify with that style, would they not dress in it already? If they know about it and don't identify with that style, then why the hell would they care?
(It's not like anybody *doesn't* know that it exists, unless they're totally blind or have been living in a cave for the last several decades.)
If you have an issue with people laughing at you and the stereotypes and maybe you're trying to promote respect for it or something? This isn't the way to do it. Just ignore them. Being obnoxious about it and trying to garner attention like this just perpetrates the negative image people already have of you (not to mention that it's hard to avoid in a culture where everybody wants to make their opinions known to everyone else - that goes both ways).
In Finland, no one bats an eye. No one would say anything about it to you, and you would not say anything about it to others. It's none of other people's business how you choose to dress.
Awareness of life-threatening diseases? War? Gender orientation? Fine. Your subculture? I don't think so. Just have more confidence in yourselves and be happy with who you are.
From my letters:
Finally, if it's just "awareness" in the sense of getting like-minded people together, why have a tagline that sounds pushy like that? Otto says it sounds like a joke, but it's Canada, and I do not have the confidence or belief that these people don't actually mean it.
What's there to be "aware" of?
If it's for the awareness of that style of dress for people who don't already dress that way, why do you give a damn whether they are aware of it or not? If they know about it and identify with that style, would they not dress in it already? If they know about it and don't identify with that style, then why the hell would they care?
(It's not like anybody *doesn't* know that it exists, unless they're totally blind or have been living in a cave for the last several decades.)
If you have an issue with people laughing at you and the stereotypes and maybe you're trying to promote respect for it or something? This isn't the way to do it. Just ignore them. Being obnoxious about it and trying to garner attention like this just perpetrates the negative image people already have of you (not to mention that it's hard to avoid in a culture where everybody wants to make their opinions known to everyone else - that goes both ways).
In Finland, no one bats an eye. No one would say anything about it to you, and you would not say anything about it to others. It's none of other people's business how you choose to dress.
Awareness of life-threatening diseases? War? Gender orientation? Fine. Your subculture? I don't think so. Just have more confidence in yourselves and be happy with who you are.
From my letters:
Eventually one should realize that one no longer needs visual representation of the group/worldview they're with displayed; one discovers that it's not about how the subculture dresses, but what's inside -- the state of mind.
[A music style cannot be a lifestyle, i.e.] its values and its attitudes, its style of dress and its actions... must be separate from the music itself. They only reinforce the boundaries that lead to imitation and close-mindedness.
Finally, if it's just "awareness" in the sense of getting like-minded people together, why have a tagline that sounds pushy like that? Otto says it sounds like a joke, but it's Canada, and I do not have the confidence or belief that these people don't actually mean it.
[14:48:59] .tt.: haha. [14:49:18] Tuuli Mustasydän ='(: and that's... sad [14:49:25] .tt.: awareness......................... [14:49:50] .tt.: like.......... guys, look around a little bit. ... [15:18:12] .tt.: have to go to bed [15:18:15] Tuuli Mustasydän ='(: good night [15:18:35] .tt.: kick them attire-awareness peoples ass for me
