My mom and I had this convo about getting ear piercings, then I brought up the idea of multiple ear piercings (never said I wanted to have it), and my mom said something in the lines of "don't do that, people with mulitiple ear piercings are mostly associated with gangs and stuff" then my brain went on a tangent.
One shouldnt condone to harmful stereotypes like that, you never truly know everything. Old people with that mentality grow up with HATE , they are never open-minded to a growing generation. They are the type to harass others just because they don't fit in "standards" that society made up. That's just another way to discriminate, especially most common with Christians. Wasn't Christians persecuted just because they believed in something that the rest of society didn't? Others truly believed they deserved it. Christians went through discrimination doesn't mean they get to do it to the next person. It doesn't give you a bitch pass just because you know what is "good" and believe in God. Doesn't the bible teach you to love your neighbor no matter who? What happened to that lesson when you see someone so different from you? It doesn't really seam so Christian to me. Christians label themselves as "loving" but only to others they think look acceptable, its always how they look. Wound you forgive a r@pist who looks too kind, too proper, too presentable? The worst ones always look like they fit in. And yes that's not always the case, but the ignorance is the problem. Society make up these "standards" because they "think" when someone does things differently, something is wrong with them. They make excuses like maybe "they got possessed by the devil", or "they want to rebel", or "they joined a gang", but they never know anything until they personally know that person. People want to label things as bad doings and spread them like gossip, instead of actually researching anything and widening their knowledge. IGNORANCE is a sin. If an eighteen year old girl got r@ped, you would feel bad. But if you heard that girl had multiple ear piercings and tattoos, would you change your mind? Do you think she deserved it? Is she less of a human since she doesn't fit the "perfect good girl" society wants their young girls to be like? What if all she dreamed of is to become a doctor and save lives? But you wouldn't know that because you don't know ANYTHING. If we actually start learning true respect, understanding and acceptance, stop condoning to this "wannabe perfect" society and stop hating, the world may know peace.
Btw I'm not trying to hate or diss on Christians (I'm a Christian myself) I just never liked the kind of mentality older generations were taught to believe become so twisted.
