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Dude you have dreads that is cool, my girlfriend will be jealous. She will be getting dreads as soon as her hair grows back out(we shaved is all off back in January).

But yeah i also see what you mean, I don’t really label myself though. I If people want to categorize me into any certain group I don’t care, I am who I am regardless of what that makes me.

wow…UNREAL POST. 

AMAZING.  i am proudly a weirdo – i’ve “grown out” of my punk phase, i no longer rock the punk style, but my mindset is exactly how you’ve described it in your post.  i’ve been called a lesbian, a poser, a goth, a punk, a scene kid, a weirdo….pretty much every sterotype out there actually and i’ve learned just to not give a FLYING FUCK (sorry, had to swear for emphasis).  i am what i am, and it is what it is.  i hate people trying to tell me what to do, how to live my life, how to fit-in in society – i really just don’t care. 

so yeah, amazing post – so true!

This is my favorite lovelyish post ever. It’s my favorite anything post ever. Go you, go punks, and go everyone who knows that what they are is exactly what they should be!

I am what I am, and don’t care if people don’t like me or my style, I don’t care what style someone is, as long as they are true to themselves. I can’t stand and won’t be around fake people, those who can’t be honest with themselves about who they are.
I grew up in an area where you were a “freak” and a “loser” if you didn’t conform to the jocks and cheerleaders ways, they would mock you and try and make you feel like shit. They thought you should only dress preppy, and listen to popular music, and oh no, if you had tattoos or piercings.
But there were alot more of us that didn’t care what they thought, and that drove them nuts. Now, those same ones are trying to be different, they have tattoos and piercings, listen to what they consider “un-popular” music, but which is actually still popular. Maybe it works for some, but most you can see them trying too hard to fit in. Just be yourself, and be happy.

Awesome post. Three cheers for everyone who knows how to think for themselves! I no longer maintain a weird, punk style with my clothes and makeup, but its all still inside my head lol. And its great that you have dreads, I’m jealous 

Agreed =]

Btw – I’m diggin’ the fact that you have dreads. I can’t wait for the day my son comes up to me to ask me if he can dye his hair blue and pierce his lip while rocking out to Pantera in the garage.

I haven’t read a post of yours that I haven’t liked. Keep it up =]

1) Green Day is not punk… at least, not anymore. Sorry, I just had to mention it before somebody else did

2) I completely agree with everything this post says! I used to want to be “goth” so that I would have a reason to be the weird person I am. I’ve grown out of that mindset, but I still enjoy being a weirdo and I’ve grown to not care what anybody thinks about it. Plus it’s an icebreaker– now, it takes people by surprise to find out what my interests are.

i agree with everything you said. and especially the fact that you know that punk isn’t a fashion, it’s a lifestyle.

those aren’t punks.

sounds to me like punks and nerds have a lot in common ;]

While I don’t really live the lifestyle, I do respect punks for their non-conformist attitude. I like to go against the norm to create a sense of balance, and also because I want to be distinct from “everyone else.” I don’t go all out on the fashion 100% of the time, I just dress the way I feel like dressing when I get up in the morning. I actually get a lot of compliments for it too, not laughed at or ridiculed (perhaps because it’s not “punk” fashion, but “my” fashion? Not sure).

Dreads are cool though, they don’t suit me but they really look good on other people.

Great post

I’m very happy that I read this post before I got mad and decided to write a reply, lol.

@objectionnn@xanga - Green Day is punk. It doesn’t matter that they’re not singing about the same stuff they did on Dookie. It doesn’t matter that their style got an upgrade. It doesn’t matter that you’re angry because they decided to tackle real life issues instead of the kiddie shit. The fact that they went ahead and did what they wanted to do, no matter what anyone else thought, is the very idea of punk. Your logic has some fault somewhere. 

@bitterbittenrockinblonde22@xanga - I disagree, but whatever. I don’t even think they were “punk” on Dookie. And are you saying that they only sang about kiddie stuff on Dookie? Have you read the lyrics? I personally consider punk to be stuff like the Clash and, more recently, the Living End, but to each their own. Why is it that just because we disagree, I have some sort of logic fault?

Why is there a picture of green day?? They resemble punks?

In a way punks do make ‘punk’ a fashion.. and they want to be looked at as punks
but in reality they are conforming because most of them have the same style
the big mohawk made with glue those studded made jackets
By labeling yourself a punk you are conforming

PLEASE watch southparks episode on the goth kids lol
this post is really reminding me of that

lol yes I agree, I have always been myself, looks and personality, clothes to makeup. People have told me how to be and how to dress and live many times. I can remember countless insults and degradeing remarks but I have always stayed me. I am proud of who am and I am nowadays loved for being me.

I love the post. Seriously, I do.
It reminds me of this House quote… but now that i’ve looked it up, it almost seems contradictory. So, i’m not saying that punks aren’t people who don’t care what others think, especially because punk isn’t really “cool” anymore. Here is some food for thought…

Dr. Roger Spain (First Applicant): [House won't hire him because of a tattoo] Wow! I thought you’d be the last person to have a problem with nonconformity.
Dr. Gregory House: Nonconformity – right. I can’t remember the last time I saw a twenty-something kid with a tattoo of an Asian letter on his wrist. You are one wicked free thinker! You want to be a rebel? Stop being cool. Wear a pocket protector like he does, and get a hair cut like the Asian kids that don’t leave the library for twenty hour stretches. They’re the ones who don’t care what you think.
Dr. Gregory House: [pause] Sayonara!

- credits to IMDB

If “punk” is to deny the common stereotype, why label it? 

green day is a TERRIBLE example of punk

“That my friends is the beauty and the true meaning of accepting yourself as you are in a world where no one else really will.” gotta love the sound of that.

@objectionnn@xanga - Why is it that just because we disagree, I have some sort of logic fault?
dude, good call. you’re right on that one. i hate when people say you’re an idiot just because you don’t agree with them.

 Totally Agree ! Nice post, even if I’m not punk.

Accepting yourself is not being punk. It’s being human.

@kacyy@xanga - I didn’t call her an idiot. I just said that her logic had some fault. She’s probably one of the many people who were HUGE Green Day fans when they first exploded onto the scene and are now angry at the band because they moved on from the subjects on their debut. Trust me, I’ve heard so many people who supposedly support doing what you as an individual want to do say “Ugh! They suck now! They should have stuck to what was on Dookie!” American Idiot is what the band wanted to do on their own, as individuals. If you support that ideal and being yourself, then dammit, you should have supported that album and them instead of turning your back on them.

@WhenHateIsTheOnlyOption@xanga - False! Most people hate or dislike, in some way, who they are. When you go the opposite way, you are definitely following the ideal that is punk.

@bitterbittenrockinblonde22@xanga - i don’t like green day at all. i didn’t like them a while ago and i don’t like them now so i’m not of much fun on a debate about the band XD
sry

@kacyy@xanga - That’s fine. I was just defending myself and expressing my opinion like usual.

Punk was, at one time, a style of music. Now it’s a reason for people to call each other out on not being nonconformist enough.

If you call yourself “punk”, you’re not punk. That completely contradicts EVERYTHING that the punk lifestyle is about because you’re conforming to a stereotype.

@kacyy@xanga - I’d tell anyone this, but I didn’t choose the picture, and will plead the fifth on thoughts of whether they are punk or not. If I was going to put a picture of punks, I’d put up Dropkick Murphys, or Jay Reatard. But this is a fashion site. So, you can’t really expect the pick of a genuine punk group.

@WhenHateIsTheOnlyOption@xanga -  Agreed. But what about vboth accepting yourself, and dismissing whomever doesn’t accept you as you are? That’s been the whole idea of punk culture. “I love who I am, and I believe in what I do. That’s ALL that matters.” And I think that those who are insecure on Lovelyish can learn from that philosophy as a start

@Meowmeowkimmaee@xanga -  - That’s a good question. But since there is a name for the character ,why not use it for this situation?

@mynameisblueskye@xanga - I guess I was under the impression that the definition you were giving was an eclectic one that cannot be categorized under a single faction.

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the men of greenday are not punks.
they are washed up 40 year old men wearing eyeliner than sold out in the late 90s.

speaking of selling out, i think i saw them on a target commercial or a commercial for visa or some bullshit that somebody who believes in “anarchy” would never do.

http://stencilpunks.org/cos/VII1%20Full%20Spread.jpg
read “letter from teh editore”

Well written, Chris.

I’ve experienced the high school torture of being “different”.  Then, unfortunately, conformed for a while, and gladly, I am back to feeling like me again. : )

Also, to posters commenting about the Green Day picture… That is just placed there by Lovelyish.  The poster had no choice on the photo.  Who cares, anyway?  Stereo-typing tires me.

My life motto is “live and let live.”  I have friends from all walks of life.  Keeps things exciting and my mind open.

@make_the_boredom_cease@xanga - Actually, they do. They both dress out of the usual look of a teenager, they both believe what they want to believe, and they obth don’t care about what each other thinks. Rivers Cuomo is a good example of  both a punk and a nerd. Hehe!

@ina_sweaterpoorlyknit@xanga - Punk culture, I noticed has become like an Ourobouros, the snake that ate itself? Punk is all about defying everyone’s expectations of them, and even though people like Green Day and Kurt Cobain “sold out”, they did what THEY wanted to do, and never even conformed to the thoughts of their fans. Punk is a culture that was born self-indulgent, and in all ways is freeform.

@Meowmeowkimmaee@xanga - Well, it was. I’ll write about that for Lovelyish some other time. But punk is not conformed in a fashion or an action. But even the Sex Pistols hated being called punk. It’s all about being themselves in a world where you can’t quite do that as much.

Some people never grow up.

I agree with what you’re saying, but one of my problems with “punk” is that it has become almost as much of a trend as preppy-ness. Take the people who pay $60 for a pair of goth pants from Hot Topic — that’s just as bad as paying the same price for Abercrombie jeans. Conforming to “punk” trends is just as bad as conforming to any other trends.

In my opinion, anyone who refers to him or herself as a “punk” is just another poser. True punks don’t care what people call them.

Nods. Agreed. Nice post!

“beautiful weirdos” i love that phrase. i love punks and i love the idea behind them. that you can wear mohawks and studs and blue hair and raise that bird high and fuck everything else, and that’s all that matters. i may wear pink skirts and harry potter shirts and hippie headbands, but deep inside, i am a punk girl who has a lot to say and i’m glad that someone else feels that way too.

this whole post made me smile. don’t let them get to you :]

also, this whole calling yourself punk just makes you a poser beause real punks don’t conform to a stereotype bullshit is just confusing. why argue the point? the names prolly came from people who saw a bunch of mohawked, leather jacket wearing weirdos and labeled them, and the labeled rose to that name and became proud of it. or… something… i… dont… yeah.

“Tough Tittay”
made me giggle

i dont label myself.. but i know i am true to myself no matter how i dress. It doesnt matter if one day I’m wearing skinny jeans and a Green Day shirt (yeah i own like 5 P) or khaki shorts and a shirt that requires an undershirt. How I dress doesn’t make me who I am, what I say, and how I act do.
I accept myself, and has broken the mold EVERYWHEREE. X]

great post