It is a Japanese proverb.
---Means:
If you don't behave according to the unspoken code of conducts that fits your obvious profile such as gender and/or age, you will stand out like an un-pounded nail and will be pounded.
So you play that role that was assigned to you by the societal expectation, other than your expectation of what your world is like.
Things like a kind of job you work, a kind of house and neighborhood you live in, clothes you wear, a bike you ride, everything is a tool to make you look *me* according to your programming of the idea of who you think you are and how you should look because of your gender, age and perceived societal expectation based on these two factors.
Or, you can just be YOU.
I heard someone said this once:
"All clothes are all uniform or costume."
Makes sense, doesn't it?
So I chose to go between:
"I become as me as possible, by mixing and matching clothes that I received through friends, family, 2nd hand stores, street finds, flea markets so I will not support particular brand but instead, I choose to shop at thrift/2nd hand stores to boycott sweatshops and consumerism that supports it as much as possible, as somethings are harder to come by in 2nd hand, like undies & socks.
I said, "As Much As Possible," AMAP, that is.
---Means:
If you don't behave according to the unspoken code of conducts that fits your obvious profile such as gender and/or age, you will stand out like an un-pounded nail and will be pounded.
So you play that role that was assigned to you by the societal expectation, other than your expectation of what your world is like.
Things like a kind of job you work, a kind of house and neighborhood you live in, clothes you wear, a bike you ride, everything is a tool to make you look *me* according to your programming of the idea of who you think you are and how you should look because of your gender, age and perceived societal expectation based on these two factors.
Or, you can just be YOU.
I heard someone said this once:
"All clothes are all uniform or costume."
Makes sense, doesn't it?
So I chose to go between:
"I become as me as possible, by mixing and matching clothes that I received through friends, family, 2nd hand stores, street finds, flea markets so I will not support particular brand but instead, I choose to shop at thrift/2nd hand stores to boycott sweatshops and consumerism that supports it as much as possible, as somethings are harder to come by in 2nd hand, like undies & socks.
I said, "As Much As Possible," AMAP, that is.
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