Comments on Becky's T-Blog: Not quite over the counter culture

I'll raise you both, gender bending, bisexual, bik...

2006-08-12T22:22:00.000+01:00

I'll raise you both, gender bending, bisexual, biker, witch, fat-bird, motorclub member, transit driving, goth (sometimes), cake-making, karaoke queen :p

Hah! I'll see your roleplaying Goth Tranny and rai...

2006-08-12T11:00:00.000+01:00

Hah! I'll see your roleplaying Goth Tranny and raise you Scuba Diving, biking, Armed forces Tranny... and worse than even that (apparently) a 4x4 driver :-o
;-)

Bah! Slackers.I'm a roleplaying, goth tranny. Thre...

2006-08-11T18:16:00.000+01:00

Bah! Slackers.

I'm a roleplaying, goth tranny. Three counterculture stereotypes in one package!

Top that.

Hi,Even early on, the urge to rebel is there in so...

2006-08-11T14:26:00.000+01:00

Hi,

Even early on, the urge to rebel is there in some people. My sixth grade teacher sign my year book

"To a determined non-conformist"

Peace,

Dawn

Well, I'm all me too about not wanting to fit into...

2006-08-11T09:29:00.000+01:00

Well, I'm all me too about not wanting to fit into predefined social roles.

But have you noticed that all counter-cultures have actually stricter rules of behaviour and are often less tolerant than mainstream, inside their own sphere. They usually define very strictly what it is exactly how you must rebel against the mainstream.

And I hate that. Were you thinking of that too, Isobel?

In that case, maybe I'm part of a counterculture w...

2006-08-11T05:39:00.000+01:00

In that case, maybe I'm part of a counterculture within a counterculture?

Well I enjoy my own counter culture.Just me though...

2006-08-10T22:49:00.000+01:00

Well I enjoy my own counter culture.
Just me though.
Well, when I say enjoy, I mean tollerate. Barely tollerate.
Actually there's not much culture to speak of either.
OMG, Im a intollerable loaner on the outide of mainstream culture.
Wow thanks for makeing me think about this stuff Becky.

Im gonna go and have a little cry now.

I told you so ;o)

2006-08-10T22:48:00.000+01:00

I told you so ;o)

"I suspect that I deliberately make sure that I do...

2006-08-10T22:37:00.000+01:00

"I suspect that I deliberately make sure that I don't fit in anywhere - you know, just to be on the safe side.

Does anyone remember Tony Hancock's The Rebel?"

No, just you Isobel.

Oh my God it's working! :-O

;-)

I think that must make me a nihlist then. I suspec...

2006-08-10T22:33:00.000+01:00

I think that must make me a nihlist then. I suspect that I deliberately make sure that I don't fit in anywhere - you know, just to be on the safe side.

Does anyone remember Tony Hancock's The Rebel?

Another insightful post, Becky. :) It's funny, I ...

2006-08-10T19:48:00.000+01:00

Another insightful post, Becky. :) It's funny, I too have had that urge to divert from the mainstream, for as long as I can remember. I belong with one social circle, a sort of big happy family whose members are in touch with each other partly through discussion forums and partly at events. Each of those members rides two wheels, and is automatically seen as somewhat non-mainstream. Within that there are further non-mainstream groups, of which I'm one.

And you know, it's fun! It's fun to get away from the similar look of people, the similar predicatable way people behave.

I wonder it might be as much "alternative interest" as wanting to be somewhere between a pioneer and - as Siobhan said - a sloppy second. Not so much anti-establishment as anti-identikit? And for the record, I have a nosestud too.

This makes a lot of sense to me - I've been throug...

2006-08-10T17:40:00.000+01:00

This makes a lot of sense to me - I've been through various counter-cultural types and ended up - ?? Exactly why I want to be going in the opposite direction to the mainstream is another question though to which I've never had an answer; but I do have a nose ring if that helps?