Fan of Project Runway that I am, I have had to settle for Bravo's replacement The Fashion Show. This week's episode has the designers creating outfits based on high school cliques. Those included in the show were; Goth, Drama, Jock, Mean Girl, B-Girl, Skater, Nerds, Prep, Tree-Hugger. Call me hyper sensitive, call me absurd, but at least in my experience, cliques are not what they once were.
My high school had its share of cowboys (an often excluded clique), skaters, mean girls, and jocks. But the thing about each group is that they mixed and molded, people often becoming hybrids of two or three, or often being...dare I say it...and individual.
For a year or two my best friend and I were classified as the school hippies. Of course we had an audience that was mostly republican, highly sheltered, and very very silly. We were classified thus for our knowledge of Bob Dylan, the sexual revolution, and life outside of our twenty thousand population town. Clearly this by no means creates an extreme individual, but you are what you eat, and we ate picnics.
I had my fleeting moments in cliques and groups, but it never really stuck. And however hard Bravo tries to convey the message of cliques, young and old (housewives, seriously? I thought we made it clear that the originals, the desperates, were an entertainment. these women cannot be taking themselves seriously), I'm beginning to think the concept is a little passe.
I made friends of all sorts, and so did many many other people. And if some silly high school kids can figure that much out, so can the rest of the world. Har har.
This is so true. I think we (Hermiston) transcended because we were so isolated. Not only from conventional culture but culture in general. We had nothing to go off of.
ReplyDeleteI liked it though, however strange it may have been.
It was a very strange, strange place.