Self Image: Activity 3

Activity 3: Blog Entry
Consider some of the social pressures that you think may shape your behavior and personal image.

• List the images most commonly associated with the categories or ‘boxes’ you have already listed in Activity 1. 
• How have you responded to social pressures to conform by adopting an appearance that relates to the categories that you feel you have placed in or have chosen?

My Response

Conformity is like a virus, it keeps spreading and only some people are immune to it. I've always been strongly against the concept of conformity, because I don't wanna be like other people, I want to be me. So many people choose to conform because it makes them fit in with the cool kids, and they just want to be accepted. I'm unaware of the ways I have responded to social pressures, but I'd like to think that I've just been me since day one. I was wearing superhero stuff before it was cool because when I was younger I always read comic books instead of watched TV. To this day I still watch nothing but cartoons, I barely found out who Kim Kardashian is about 3 years ago. I wear leather jackets because I've always thought they were cool, and don't really care that we live in Arizona where it's always hot. I've dressed the same way since kindergarten, just a simple combo of t-shirt and jeans, maybe the occasional dress shirt but nothing too fancy. I guess my response to conformity is just to ignore it and do my own thing, because I'd rather walk alone than be another wolf in the pack.

If everyone gave into the pressures of society and chose to be like everyone else, this is probably what a like outside of a grocery store would look like, except maybe with more modern clothes. Point is, we would all dress, walk, and talk the same way, like a bunch of factory drones.

People always say that I'm a really big anti-conformist, which is kind of true. Personally I just prefer to stick out from the crowd, I don't want people to dress like me and listen to my music because then I would be the source of something I don't like, which is unoriginality. Sweet dreams are made of this and everybody's looking for something, but I just want something else.