PASSING JUDGEMENT

LETS ALL BE HONEST, we all judge. We all look at people and tailor make our own, self-proclaimed judgements. It’s very difficult to walk down Stokes Croft in Bristol, see a raggedy clothed, phlegm-spittin, cider-chuggin, smack-shootin wino at the triangle and then repress our judgment of them to be, indeed a smackhead. DARN MY SOUL TO HELL, but when I see Vicky Pollard’s exact doppelganger in Primark, I judge, yes I do, I judge this fine specimen to be a chav… Shoot me!

Again, thank you Rob for making such a valid point; people WANT to be judged. We wouldn’t wear the things that we do otherwise. Girls wouldn’t fake tan, boys wouldn’t wear fancy trainers, we would all walk round wearing the same thing/naked. Girls who fake tan themselves beyond umpa lumpas, who wear tiny dresses made entirely out of fucking sequins that push their poor tits up and out into oblivion and high heels so high they can see into top bedroom windows… they’re doing that so in their eyes they can be judged by peers and by men as “sexy”… no comment.

Only the other day did I drive past a small gaggle of girls trying to cross the road with motherfucking CURLERS in their hair. What the genuine fuck. I’m sorry, but this is absurd. I only say this because I had seen such things in a magazine only days before, this:

For fucks sake. Loose women joked about seeing this trending.. JOKED. And it did! Nobody ask why I was watching Loose Women please, it comes on straight after Jeremy Kyle.

But here we have a case, where a group of girls are ASKING to be judged as the footballers wife type. And yes, thus, I might then call these girls fucking idiots. BUT, that is my opinion, that is MY judgement, that is not necessarily the truth and that does not mean they are bad people and need to change. What bugs me is when people think their judgement is so right that these people need to actually get hassled and then change!

What is not right is when this judgement gets taken further, when the person is properly persecuted over something so superficial and their actual, fundamental person is scrutinised. We are all entitled to our own opinions; that’s the beauty of free speech but that’s where it should end. Because acting upon it is where things like bullying and racism springs from.

So yeah, to conclude, have your opinions, express them, just don’t expect anyone to change because of them. We all judge, anyone who says they don’t is lying, just don’t be a prick about it.

17feb2012

(thanks to the person who suggested this topic, big love)