What Uniform Do YOU Wear?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You know what i mean.

[Doktor Howl]

You know what i mean.

Not really.  I was being facetious, but I am completely stumped, here.

[Oysters Rockefeller]

I kind of agree with Twid. We all put on uniforms, to an extent. You can do it without wanting to, or knowing you did it. But if you like something (like being irish or...ugh...trip pants) then just do it. Use it how you want. Hopefully you wont be too excited about fitting into the stereotype, but not doing something you want to just because it's a uniform...that might be just as bad.

This isn't me saying people should willingly accept and embrace uniforms, just that they should do what they want and accept it if that occasionally means being similar to something else. Nothing is entirely original any more.

ETA: Found that Stanhope bit I referenced earlier, if anybody cares. The actual quote comes around 4:00. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfmeKhaT0s&feature=related

[Juana]

I did the uniform thing at one point. DEBATE! SPEECH! FUCK YEAH! <---my entire life from 14-19 years old. Everything single thing I did was in that uniform. It was a weird one, but still a uniform.

And yeah, I learned a lot and I'd be a much more boring person than I am without it, but it was only when I took off the forensics uniform off that the weird came out.
I also notice I'm a lot happier since I stopped trying to jam myself into that box.



Might this also be a bit of a maturity thing? They found the pre-packaged outfit they liked at one point in their life, and then never, ever let themselves grow or change again, stunting themselves in the process.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Dok- the bits about being irish that i do are ones that i enjoy. I want to get to the point where i do it without thinking this is irish and rather only think this is what i do because i like it. But right now i still see it as irish also.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, I know someone is going to regret this...but it's probably not me, so I am very relaxed about any potential outcome

http://angryblacklady.com/

It's like she's unironically trying to be the living avatar of the stereotype.

That's the spirit!

Wow... I kind of love her. In the same way I kind of love last term's sociology teacher.

[Cain]

Resisting the temptation to troll her is especially hard.

Not that the actual act of trolling her is hard, which is part of the problem.  Criticising Obama from the left sends her off on crazy rants about how you are objectively pro-Sarah Palin etc etc.  I've been...following her work for a while.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am an ANGRY BLACK WOMAN railing against SOCIAL INJUSTICE!

I am ALSO an ANGRY BLACK WOMAN, but I'm railing against ANOTHER, MORE DIFFERENT INJUSTICE.

I have to live in a flyblown desert City, with pervert bars being the height of culture.  If I was WHITE, they'd let me live somewhere like Boston or Portland, where there's DIFFERENT SHIT TO DO ONCE IN A FUCKING WHILE. 

Also, I see that they have PEACEFUL BLACK MAN DAY, but not ANGRY BLACK WOMAN DAY, and that's fucking BULLSHIT, there's no GRATITUDE that Angela Davis LET YOUR PARENTS LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO BREED or that Gloria Gaynor didn't CHOP YOUR NUTS OFF WITH A BLUNT PIECE OF IRON.

They only want to recognize Black people that are all NICE AND SHIT, and never the ones that want to FUCK YOUR SHIT UP, you disgusting PINK-ASS PO'BUCKER.  And for THAT, I wish to beat you all to death WITH MY FUCKING OVARIES.

AGAIN, NO THINKING NECESSARY!  Just you DUCK YOUR FUCKING HEAD and hope to GOD that I MISS YOU IN THE CROWD!

Dok,
Just figured out that you can steal other peoples' uniforms.

OH SHIT! DOK'S AN ANGRY BLACK WOMAN, AND SHE'S GOT A FULL-BODY AFRO!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Resisting the temptation to troll her is especially hard.

Not that the actual act of trolling her is hard, which is part of the problem.  Criticising Obama from the left sends her off on crazy rants about how you are objectively pro-Sarah Palin etc etc.  I've been...following her work for a while.

Oh MY. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Resisting the temptation to troll her is especially hard.

Not that the actual act of trolling her is hard, which is part of the problem.  Criticising Obama from the left sends her off on crazy rants about how you are objectively pro-Sarah Palin etc etc.  I've been...following her work for a while.

Oh MY. 

Don't resist.

Also: screenshots, pls. 

[Richter]

I don't have a uniform.  I have 8.  Each has a kitschy kung-fu move to go with it that I practice every morning in my busted martian ranch house wearing long red underwear.

[Doktor Howl]

I don't have a uniform.  I have 8.  Each has a kitschy kung-fu move to go with it that I practice every morning in my busted martian ranch house wearing long red underwear.

Only one move per uniform?

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

All I own are costumes. It's hard to figure out what to wear when it's not dressup time.

[LMNO]

--METAPHOR STRETCH--

Like any piece of clothing, if you simply buy something off the rack, it's not going to fit you very well.  Not to get all snowflake-y on you, but each person's body is different.  Some have broader shoulders, some have longer legs. 

And an ill-fitting piece of clothing is going to make you look ugly.

But if you take some time, and a bit off extra effort, it's not that difficult to get something tailored to fit.  Take in the waist a bit, unstitch a dart or two.  Hem those cuffs.  Add some accessories, and (as Her Majesty Coco Chanel commands), take off one piece of jewelry before going out.  Now you're looking sharp, you're looking put together.  You own that suit.  You're wearing it, it's not wearing you.

[Cain]

Uniforms help simplify social interactions by reducing agents into alloted roles created through custom and popular culture.  Sometimes, these uniforms can help in signifying certain cultural signs, group affiliations or membership within a hierarchy.  However, they can also cause people to overidentify with them, to the point they end up subsuming their individuality into a group consciousness or mass movement.

Sometimes, you just gotta remember, at the end of day, a sexy nurse outfit is just a sexy nurse outfit.