The irrelevant question

So I was chatting to a friend, and we were talking about finding a job, and my friend mentioned that they might find it hard to get a job in certain industries based on their appearance, to which I replied that I had been on a body-mod forum which debunked that, with people sharing their individual experiences about how they had been for interviews and got jobs in all sorts of industries and were working different types of jobs and that they had never found that any potential employer had mentioned anything about their appearance and many of them mentioned it had correlated positively with their chances for employment in the firm that they worked. What does my friend do? Completely ignoring my point, I receive the question, “what were you doing on a body-mod forum?”. I mean, seriously, I had just provided some insight on the irrelevance of appearance to a job search, and I get questioned why I was on a body-mod forum? It was simply where I found the information, what has it got to do with anything we were talking about? I can’t get over how some people ignore the entire point of a paragraph just to ask some question about a trivial detail.1

You know what else? Normally the trivial detail is something you aren’t particularly keen to discuss. Now don’t start thinking that I’m going to get defensive about being on a forum for body-mods, because I’m not. It’s perfectly fine to be on a forum for body-mods because it’s on the Internet and body-mods look cool. Anyway, done right, a body-mod can enhance a person’s natural beauty, or help to pronounce someone’s particular features in a way that would normally not be noticed, so really a body-mod can be very helpful to certain people. I don’t know why people get so upset about other people having body-mods, I mean, are they jealous or something now that the other person looks better than they do? Maybe they’re having feelings of insecurity at their own failure, inability, or lack of awesomeness to actually get a body-mod. Whatever.2

People just tend to think the worst of you, have you noticed that. Right now, in fact, you’re probably thinking, “Man, you’re a wierdo because you visit pretty wierd sites” but you’re wrong! I was there for the legitimate purpose of seeing how elf-ears would look on a friend of mine, and I’ve never had a body-mod, tattoo or anything else, but the instant I mention I’m on a body-mod forum, people are all “Ooooh, evil man!”. Let’s look at what sits behind this, as most people with body-mods will already know, because the real issue here is that people think body-mods are evil. Some body mods ARE evil, like the one with the extra pen…finger growing out of the forehead. I mean, that’s evil, imagine fingering using that to poke someone, they’d be totally freaked out. On the positive side though, it’d make waving easier…but yeah, would people have a problem if I cut my hair? How about if I plucked my nosehairs? Or grew a beard? What if I was to totally shave my body, or start wearing different clothes? Would you have a problem with me wearing a bluetooth headset? Earrings? A watch? Glasses? Rings?3

Categorically speaking, this post is a rant, but in my head it’s a political release. One day, as Mary Poppins slowly sinks into the West, and the West vomits her back over to the East during the next 12 hours, you will look around, and see people doing what they’d do if this rant didn’t exist, loving each other, befriending one another, and eating pie, because pie is awesome. If you don’t like pie, have no fear, pie doesn’t like you either. In fact, in Soviet Russia pie eats you.4

So basically, body-mods are gay good, and anyone who doesn’t like them has a brain should show less bigotry. Don’t just hate on body-mods because you know the truth you’re uncomfortable with them, instead kill anyone who has one show some understanding and respect for these people who are mutilating their flesh showing the greatest respect for their bodies by beautifying it.5

And now for the irrelevant topic’s irrelevant question: that opening sentence is pretty long, huh?