So I’ve had a few things on my mind recently and I’d like to get them off my chest now.
1. Suburbia sucks and everyone who lives there is a pretentious snob.
This one has been bothering me for several months. For the majority of my life I have only had friends that live in the suburbs, this wasn’t because of any prejudice I have of anyone who lives in the city, it’s just how it is. I live in the suburbs I was friends with people in the area. Makes sense. Well last fall I joined a home school group that was made up of mostly people who live in the city. I’ve never thought of any differences between Suburbia and the City as that drastic as far as the quality of the kind of people who live there. I’ve never had a discussion with anyone in the suburbs about those ’stupid poor urban kids.’ I’ve never even had anyone refer to them as ‘city/urban kids’ it’s just no one around here cares. We hang out with who we hang out with, I’ve never heard anyone judge someone on where they live.
Well, then I went into the city and started getting really close to people who live down there. I was shocked to say the least at the prejudices against ‘Suburban Kids’ and how often I find people in the city who ‘hate the suburbs.’ I’ve heard several reasoning’s, it’s a totally consumerist, all the people look the same. Suburban people are pretentious, racist, prejudice.. I’ve heard it all.
It bothers me, it really does. I had a friend say that the only reason she thinks anyone moves to the Suburbs is because they’re racist and prejudice.
Uhm, what?
To me that sounds like a prejudice statement. Saying everyone in the Suburbs lives there because they’re racist is probably the most ignorant thing I’ve heard in a long time. I know that I haven’t even met anyone whose racist, and the majority of people who I’ve known through out my life have lived in the Suburbs. Plus, what does she mean ‘move’ to the Suburbs? Like we all started out in the city. My mother grew up in the Suburbs, as did her parents, and their parents. This is her home, this is where she grew up.
It just really bothers me that ‘city kids’ have all these prejudices against people who don’t live in the city. How everyone else is stuck up. I think if you honestly think all the things you say about the Suburbs you’re the pretentious ones. It’s the self righteous attitude that the city is the only place anyone should want to be that really drives me nuts. It’s also partially that these people know I live in the suburbs. Do they really think all these things about me? Do they think I’m this pretentious Northlander who hates anyone of a different ethnicity and judges everyone I meet?
I just think the whole thing is really stupid.
2. If you’re overweight/fat you’re a lazy disgusting human being who doesn’t care about themselves.
This one has come up on several occasions recently. I read something a guy said a few weeks ago about plus size models and how he doesn’t think there should be plus sized models because it ‘makes it okay for people to be like that.’ First off, plus sized models, run about a size 12, no bigger. 12 isn’t even as big as the normal size of a women in America. (A size 14 is the average) And who are you to judge that they’re unhealthy? Just because you’re big doesn’t mean you’re unhealthy. Just like being skinny doesn’t make you healthy. I know people who are sticks who I eat healthier than and they don’t do any kind of physical activity.
Plus, you say ‘obviously they don’t care about themselves or enough to be healthy’ what about anorexics? Not getting enough food is just as bad (if not worse) than getting too much. So regular models have to starve themselves to be a size 0 or 2 and you think that’s okay? You think that message is just fine and dandy to convey to people? Well guess what, it’s not. I love how people will sit around and talk about how it’s so sad when people are anorexic, but everyone bitches when someone is really overweight. Obesity can be a disease too. Things like that can manifest themselves in several different ways.
Just, I can’t even go on because I think it’s completely ridiculous.
So yeah, that’s all I have to say.
