(07-10-2010, 10:45 AM)cathb Wrote: One thing about America.....no matter what you do, you are gonna offend someone. If you like it, get it. If you want to wear it, do so..... Just my opinion.

Quoted for truth. I guess that's a result of the diversity of the nation. Everyone wants the country to run based on their beliefs/heritage/whatever else, but there's yet millions of others of completely different backgrounds who likewise want the country to run on THEIR ideals. My father, for example, is strong in his belief system and also strongly believes that he and people who agree with his system should not be held under the same moral code as people who don't believe. As a result, it offends him when someone who does believe in the same system is prosecuted or otherwise treated like they belong in a (dun, dun, duuuuuun) orderly society. (Of course, that's not the wording he uses, but in a nutshell, that is how he thinks!)

(07-10-2010, 11:51 AM)harumi Wrote: This is true. When I was 12 I went through a phase where I considered converting to Judaism and I had a very pretty Star of David that I had bought at a shop in Cordoba, Spain around that time. Well I never did convert to Judaism, but I always wear that necklace during Hannukah just because I like to pay homage to the Jewish faith at that time and I got crap for it from some kid I went to school with. The school I went to at the time had a very large and seriously Christian base. So sometimes even wearing something that's not meant to be offensive will offend someone haha.

Story of my life. @3@ - Without trying to make this topic completely about religion, in my area, the majority of people are strong Christians (or at least that's what they call it; I've yet to see one of them actually reading a Bible, let alone abiding by it BUT that is a rant for a different time and a different place!), so people often find it offensive that I look like a blatant homosexual um... very feminine, flamboyant male WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY wearing cross jewelry and other religious symbols. So if that's not enough to set them off, imagine the rage that ensues when I tell them that the cross represents fashion as opposed to any sort of personal conviction.

But enough about that! I don't wish to cause a horrible flame war or anything, so yeah.

Quote:On a side note I had a dream last night that my friend and I found the Beast Tour shirts in a store but that they didn't have my size. I hate that lol

Story of my mother fucking life.

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