For the record, it seems the wearing of toe rings and/or bangles is now sexist or racist or something. Just so you know.
“In pop culture, you have probably seen the likes of Iggy Azalea and Selena Gomez wear them for music videos and performances,” Olivia writes. And that, she continues, is not okay.
Thanks for pointing that out, Olivia. I’ll take note of that while prying this diamond out of my nostril…
Speaking of that, I actually went to the painful extreme of looking up the source article, which should give you some idea of how boring cold weather is. It lists 11 Indian/”South Asian” modes of body decoration, some of them extremely bizarre practices I have never ever seen anyone do outside the pages of National Geographic, which are also now off limits to Westerners. Be warned.
Dear Olivia:
You obviously don’t have anything useful to do with your time. I can remedy that. Here’s a snow shovel, get started. Jeez.
There was a time when nice young women were never seen in public without a hat, or with any sort of cosmetic on their faces. Yes, I’m that old. I do remember the first time I saw a girl with a little earring thing in her eyebrow, and noticed others with the ball stud earring in the middle of their tongue. It bloomed from there to dozens of rings in both ears, all around, and lips, noses and (I’m told) almost anywhere else a small fold of skin could be pierced. The infection rate must have been astronomical, and I’ve seen far less of it these days.
But all this PC crap about such things is nonsense, of course. It will be so refreshing when people get over the idea that they can dictate such things. And it will happen. I remember the way women finally cast off the stigma that they were somehow not “nice” if they didn’t wear a hat or used makeup. Didn’t take too long either. These folks are messing with something they don’t really understand at all. 🙂
As I recall it, all men wore hats whenever they were in public, until JFK stopped doing it.
After that, it was just Sinatra.
“As I recall it, all men wore hats whenever they were in public,” I couldn’t be all that much younger than you, but that’s not exactly the way I remember it. However, hats were definitely a common part of men’s dress suits back in my foggy youth, even in summertime when they made no sense at all.
In my military days, a “cover” was part of every uniform, and especially always worn when outdoors. That never make a lick of sense to me, but the military doesn’t always operate on common sense.
Ben, for men the hat was optional, though there was some social pressure for “nice” men, especially business men to wear them in most cities. It was much worse for “nice” women, since the social pressure could be lethal. This PC thing is nothing new, of course. It just changes its focus and methods from time to time. It was also different from one region to another, varied by culture and a lot of other things. The worst part about social pressures and PC nonsense is, of course, the fact that the government has gotten involved to compel this or that faction.
And yes, I remember the uniform hats, caps and so forth. I was a Marine brat in childhood, and a Navy wife later on.