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06-30-2015, 10:24 PM | #32811 (permalink) | ||
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Have you looked in a mirror?^
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06-30-2015, 10:25 PM | #32812 (permalink) |
SOPHIE FOREVER
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Hipster/beatnik/swing kid/hippy/any other "movement": derogatory term for the youngins.
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06-30-2015, 10:28 PM | #32813 (permalink) | ||
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I don't live in an area with much hipster activity that I'm aware of, so most of my exposure is through internet memes and such. A bunch of people on here show at least some sign of hipsterness, though (glasses, hats, Animal Collective, etc), so I'm perfectly happy to mock their perceived stereotypes if I can annoy them.
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06-30-2015, 10:59 PM | #32814 (permalink) |
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Pretty sure everyone here who wears glasses needs them. Might as well look stylish. Association isn't the same thing as being something. And Roxy... if anything I pretend to be a hipster cuz I don't know wwhat else to look like.
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06-30-2015, 11:28 PM | #32815 (permalink) | ||
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A.) Commit to the standards of whatever crowd you choose, basically subverting your own preferences in order to blend in. This (probably) has the benefit of making yourself confident in social situations, since you won't stand out in any "negative" way, but also runs the risk personal devaluation, since you'll have to treat your own preferences as secondary. For someone who isn't prone to self-esteem issues, this can be a perfectly rational choice, since going along with the crowd can have the benefit of social, and even economic mobility, depending on what group you choose to identify with (f.ex. dressing like your fellow lawyers if you want to join a law firm). But since you do have self-esteem issues, and especially with your gender dysphoria, then you may be stuck with option B: B.) Ignore outside influences as much as you're comfortable with, and rely on your personal taste. Since we're already excluding those who have a strong sense of fashion style, it's assumed that this will make someone with self-esteem issues (i.e. you) uncomfortable when out in public, since you will stand out, just by virtue of your outward difference. No getting around that. Clearly this can be traumatic to at least some degree for someone whose fashion taste clashes not only with their peers' clothing norms, but their gender norms as well, but given time your skin will hopefully thicken, and you might even develop a sense of pride in your own fashion bravery. But you'll likely always be an outcast to some degree, even if you find others of like mind. It is what it is. It would be easy for me to suggest option B, since that's pretty much what I do, but that choice is rather easy, since my fashion choices are guided largely by indifference, laziness, and nerdiness, rather than any actual individual fashion sense. Obviously that does not apply to you, at least not entirely.
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06-30-2015, 11:33 PM | #32816 (permalink) |
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^I think there's a tiny bit of a gap between dressing in something that the fashionistas will eat up and dressing like a slob (don't take that derogatorily, I do it too).
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06-30-2015, 11:48 PM | #32817 (permalink) |
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My glasses help my blindness in my left eye by making my right eye stronger. Plus, I was able to get the type of lenses that turn to sunglasses when it gets too bright. Being blue eyed makes it difficult to see when the sun is out and the sky is blue. Science.
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06-30-2015, 11:51 PM | #32818 (permalink) |
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Question: Can glasses help lazy eye?
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06-30-2015, 11:54 PM | #32819 (permalink) |
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I often wonder the same thing. I don't quite know if it can, though I think they can help make the eyes not get much worse than they already are. I do know that my doctor always recommended eye exercises that can help. I think it was if you look up, down, left, right, over and over whenever you're just sitting around can make your lazy eye a little stronger over time.
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06-30-2015, 11:56 PM | #32820 (permalink) | ||
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At the very least they can distract people from noticing your lazy eye.
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