Rant #1: Clothes and Complements

Hello Nerds!



            Today I’d like to just touch (hopefully) briefly on the typical judgment of clothes in today’s world. Today I am wearing a suit, and it comes with a bow tie and a somewhat tweed-looking jacket. I tell you this because it is very similar to what Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor wore on “Doctor Who”. I really do appreciate the comments about how I look like him, though it does get tiresome. I’ll give you another example: I was walking around the other day with a Redhead hat on, which does bear a resemblance to the hat Indiana Jones wore in the Indiana Jones movies, and everyone immediately goes to that instead of thinking it’s just a hat. I feel that American and British cinema and television has been so overly bastardized and type-cast that we really don’t know what’s what anymore. These items of clothing were here before any television show was around, suits have been around longer than any Doctor, and cowboy hats have been around long before Harrison Ford. Are we really this blinded people? Must we always link things to other things, I mean… We’d all make great homicide detectives because we link so many things together, and do it instantaneously(This is going to be a rant, so if you don’t want to hear more about why I hate modern society’s views on nerd clothing, you don’t have to, I just need to rant a bit).

            This may be a news flash to some of you, but maybe that person hates the thing you’re referencing! Maybe they have no clue or simply don’t care who Matt Smith is or David Tennant, maybe they’re just wearing those clothes because they were closest in their closet! Maybe those clothes are the only clothes that they enjoy wearing! Sometimes I wonder why wearing one thing one day and another thing the next is such a big deal to people. People don’t think before they speak; they’d rather say what they want to say and not care whether that person even knows the same reference! Not everybody in the world knows about “Doctor Who”, “Star Trek” or “Indiana Jones” references. Some people, just receiving the complement of “That looks nice!” or “Lookin’ sharp there” is enough, you don’t need to go further or more complex than that. It seems to me like phrases like “I like such and such” is far better and more diplomatic than attaching or branding the person to something else, it makes them feel less genuine.

            Well, thanks for letting me have this rant, and if you didn’t like it, well… it wasn’t for you, it was more for me anyways, see ya soon Nerds!



Resistance is futile

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