A Symptom
Look at this page. In particular, read the comments below it.
I've got nothing to say one way or another about the body modification in question. I don't care. Not my body.
But I do have something to say about the mean-spirited, nasty comments that others felt compelled to make about it.
The good thing about the Internet is that everyone gets a voice. The bad thing about the Internet is that everyone gets a voice. Okay, so you don't appreciate the body modification -- that's your opinion, and you've every right to it.
But these people are talking about punching the girl in the face because they don't like her taste in fashion! Do they think that's funny? Do they think they're being cool? They're making really rude guesses about the psychological reasons for getting something like that -- they don't even know her. They're just finding a reason to be mean. And the misogynystic threats... My god. If that's what's really going through so many peoples' minds, I'm never leaving my house again. I don't want to be anywhere near that kind of energy.
Where is all this anger coming from? It's not just the girl's body art. If those people were happier with themselves and their own lives, they wouldn't be bothered by what she does with hers. (Or, for that matter, by my blue hair.) Why are so many people so agitated? Why do they feel the need to insult people they don't even know? Why is the first impulse to attack, to demean, to bring down, to hurt? Why do they go looking for targets? What do you gain from acting that way? What nasty sickness is festering at the core of our society? Is this relatively new, or has it always been there?
They say that there's something wrong with the girl for doing that to her body...but I think there's something far more disturbing going on with anyone who feels the need to lash out the way they do.
posted by Jymi X/0 @ 3:27 PM
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