This is mundane babble at its most mundane but embracetrees asked about my screen name, so I thought I would write a brief explanation. The answer to your question:
No, I am not necessarily gay.
I have crossed the line between hetero and homo sexuality more then most people but I can safely say that my sexual identity rests as hetero. Similar to Foucault I don’t really believe in static sexual identities. Rather I would like to believe that sexuality is a dynamic interplay of social and internal forces. Sexuality and sexual conduct are not completely innate because they clearly have foundations in social constructions. Our categories of sexual identity only have meaning within our given society and which are probably not applicable to other cultures. An example of this would be how modern women would see Louis XIII’s French aristocratic class of Nancy boys as unattractive.
Now the question must be answered, “why would I choose such a name in the first place?”
The short answer, I like the confusion the name causes. The long answer involves understanding me at the age of 14. If you would like I can explain, but for now I’ll leave it at this.
you are 14? well i didnt understand your alias(screen name) so i ignored it. but assuming you are gay,without seeing some kind of outrageous post by you,would be like thinking i was evil cuz, my avatar wears black and has red eyes.
for all we know you are bylingual or have your own made up language or somethin’.
and octopuse fussion twins? if some cant figure out somethin’ like this,generally they go to the next more amuseing activity rather than ponder something that can only be explained the author.
hope i didnt interfere if this was a semi-private discussion between you and embracetrees.
Nope not a bother at all, this is why I posted instead of using a PM. And no I’m not 14, I’m the super sexy age of 25. However thescreen name goes back to a time when I was 14. Its not a very interesting story to be honest.
They are not Chinese characters but Japanese Romanji reading “Octopus Fusion Twins.” The dancing purple things are Octopi I drew on a note pad one day in a class, later I thought would be cute if I animated them.
some emo…umm…fag(?) [how do you prefer one calls you ?] , why would you possibly want to name yourself after something that blemished your space-time corporal history 9 years ago ? Should I look up my… ummm… Freud ?
I figure I could use this time to explain my screen name.
Back when I was a younger monkey I sat there at the hotmail sign up screen trying to ponder an alias I thought I would want to have for however long I’d have the account (which I assumed to be quite a while)
After thinking for a while I still had nothing and so started looking around my room for… anything really. Finally I flipped open my ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and saw there was a character named ‘Old Gobbo’. The blind dad of the comic relief for the shakespearian play.
And so I took the name… for no reason other than it presented itself to me. And there you have it.
Emo is really whiny (the genre, not so much the person). They all dress very hipster and wear their hair long and in their eyes. The “emo” style of SEF’s younger days now is typically described as hipster, but hipsters who actually shop at salvy and goodwill, not the hoity-toity “vintage” clothing stores you see in every fad neighborhood in America who buy up all the good clothes. They listen to very mod inspired, yet whiny music. It means something entirely different today.
Goths are more Marilyn Manson, wear way excessive amounts of eyeliner and black lipstick. They avoid seeing sunlight, rather preferring their skin to be as white as PoR’s ideal world. They typically also have a fascination with Ann Rice.
At least that’s my interpretation. Emo is whiny indie. Goth is just strange.
shhhhh, don’t tell Dr Satanical. He still thinks that it’s 1997 and that it’s acceptable to go around wearing a long black overcoat (like everyone else), black eye make up (like everyone else) and listen to Slipknot (like everyone) else but claim that you are a rebel (like everyone else)…
To define emo as a movement is worthless. It can only be distinguished by the types of music within. There are many genres and each of them have a different social relation to each other. To an outside observer it would seem they are all the same, but to those participating in the culture they are very distinct. This applies to Goth or any modern music centered culture; there are several different sub groups within each main group.
This is a key example of Daniel Quinn’s work on Neo-Tribablism. Life in a post-industrial capitalist cities has isolated the individual to a new extreme. Before post-industry the members of a city identified themselves by “key” values like district or burrow, religion, and social class. Now it is a necessity of city life to exist as a society of strangers. With this comes interacting with organization based on interest and other more “arbitrary” values (fashion, music, personal philosophy, political party, work and the like). These new groups function like extended tribal families capable of exceeding the standard Monkeysphere’s proposed by Dunbar.