Comments on: Acting [fill in the blank]

By: Bertie

Bertie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:59:09 +0000

The word “twinkie” is lame.
The word “twink” is gay.

By: Jesse!

Jesse! — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:49:49 +0000

I blame it all on our fruit eating, tree dwelling ancestors. Something in our brains, cross-culturally, has an absolute need to categorize and name because they needed to determine if something was good to eat or not. Fine. Awesome. Unfortunately we do it now with such snap judgments that we are often wrong and/or cannot easily change these categorizations, esp. after they are set during the more imprinting stage of childhood. (eg, racism in the household begets more racism)

It took me a really long time to stop calling lame things gay, but I made the effort. Now, I’m pretty pissed at people who use that word in that way. Eminem, I’m looking at YOU!

By: Bertie

Bertie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:03:16 +0000

“What is accomplished by calling a person an Oreo, Twinke, or whitewashed? What purpose do names achieve?”

It fills silence with mindless conversation to amuse ourselves and our friends. Sort of like how people gossip viciously at brunch about folks we haven’t seen for ten years, because if all we do is talk about our real lives, we’d all be discussing “TPS Reports” or “discovery requests”, depending on our career choices, and we’d all die of boredom.

By: Chook

Chook — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:44:07 +0000

“..why do we EVER label any sort of achievement or culturally divergent behavior as ‘acting’ ?”

Not many people are comfortable swimming against the current of majority opinions/behaviour – so those who do, will often fine that the majority will disassociate themselves through derogatory labelling. I think it comes down to a fear of change in the status quo.

By: courageous kiwi

courageous kiwi — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:53:13 +0000

Because we stereotype. Don’t kid yourself. You discriminate against poor people.