Klarinet Archive - Posting 000488.txt from 1997/07

From: "C Henderson" <chenderson@-----.au>
Subj: Sorry, can't resist! (Tongue piercing)
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:57:02 -0400

> Clare wrote:
>
> After
> >all, there's not a lot of difference between piercing for adornment =
and
> >putting on makeup!
>

Scott wrote:
> Try stapling-on your mascara and THEN tell me that! :-)
> (By the way, point taken! But using that same argument, when you put =
on
> make-up, you're making a statement about how you want people to see you=
,
> aren't you?)
> (Incidentally, I do NOT wear make-up, but my wife does!)

And now I'm writing again:
Scott, I don't wear makeup either, except when I feel like "dressing up" =
to go out
somewhere (which isn't every time I go out dressed up). And yes, I agree=
, you're
making a statement about how you want people to see you, but that wasn't =
the
point. The point is that one form of adornment is really no worse than =
any other -
there are pros and cons to all of them. It's really a question of weighi=
ng up the
pros versus the cons on a case-by-case basis, and all Ryan wanted to know=
were the
physical effects, not have the list tell him whether they personally thou=
ght it was
"freakish" or not.

Clare Henderson <chenderson@-----.au>