You know what Pearl, that 'innuendo' label was totally an afterthought. I should take that off! In retrospect it makes the whole thing seem forced for a cheap joke. When really it's my heart's cry of anguish!
What I actually originally meant when I said it was this: the people who are very strenuous about the fact that they don't fit in, well, #1 there seem to be way more of them than there are of any other type of people, and #2, they make me feel like some kind of a FREAK for fitting in!
Because I'm completely accepted as normal within most settings! At least, well I don't know, maybe people have gotten used to me. But guess what, I'm only just myself every where I go, and if it's just that they got used to me, I still do fit in.
I mean, what is it with the Excluded Peoples Parade that runs over me every day, shod so rough. Am I the only self-identified non-noncomformist in the world?
OK, I went to take the 'innuendo' label out. And I decided I can't. Because as true as it is that the real point of the quote was about alienation, and the strange ways in which reaction against can also become a force to alienate and exclude, the fact remains that, well...
I've noticed a lot of people who feel like they don't fit in are pretty sexy. So the second meaning is kind of true, even if unintended originally. I can't disavow it.
Wait. Have I ever even met a woman who said she feels like she fits in?
I can't be the only one who fits in, people. Let's get together on this. Some of you people out there who feel you fit in - how about being a little more transparent about that, huh?
What we need is a support group. The Fitty-Innies. And a sister group for the Sticky-Outies.
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Pearl
What I actually originally meant when I said it was this: the people who are very strenuous about the fact that they don't fit in, well, #1 there seem to be way more of them than there are of any other type of people, and #2, they make me feel like some kind of a FREAK for fitting in!
Because I'm completely accepted as normal within most settings! At least, well I don't know, maybe people have gotten used to me. But guess what, I'm only just myself every where I go, and if it's just that they got used to me, I still do fit in.
I mean, what is it with the Excluded Peoples Parade that runs over me every day, shod so rough. Am I the only self-identified non-noncomformist in the world?
I've noticed a lot of people who feel like they don't fit in are pretty sexy. So the second meaning is kind of true, even if unintended originally. I can't disavow it.
Wait. Have I ever even met a woman who said she feels like she fits in?
I can't be the only one who fits in, people. Let's get together on this. Some of you people out there who feel you fit in - how about being a little more transparent about that, huh?
What we need is a support group. The Fitty-Innies. And a sister group for the Sticky-Outies.