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One more thing...
marshall:
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--- Quote ---The effect, REGARLDESS of INTENTION, because we all know and accept that the seed was only based on good intentions.... was to remove and alter self-image and self-identity.
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EXACTLY!! I had this "slutty shag" which NEEDED major altering. It was the first step in altering the f****d up self-image I was putting out to everyone...I was "just too cool" ya know? It worked, and I considered it a good thing. My mom happened to like the change...as did I."
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Maybe you should have examined why you associated a particular haircut (shag =slutty) with your self-image to begin with. Isn't it just as egotistical and silly to identify your self-image with some arbitrary seed or straight haircut? If a guy with short hair came into the program how many times did staff insist that he grow his hair long in order to change his self-image? Or...why not insist that everyone, male and female simply shave their head entirely? This seems like it would be the ulitmate in puncturing ego images associated with hair styles...unless you were a skinhead.
Exchanging one group-sanctioned hairstyle for another equally arbitrary group-sanctioned hairstyle seems silly in retrospect. Did anyone ever get stood up and reprimanded for holding onto straight images? No. Rather than exchanging images maybe we should have inquired a little deeper into the whole question of why we form self-images at all. You probably considered your old style / image 'cool' because that's what your old peergroup or culture told you. You likely considered your new haircut 'a good thing' & decided your shag 'needed altering' for exactly the same reasons...only it was the new peergroup of fellow seedlings, conforming to the ideas of what Art and staff regarded as good or straight. I felt the strong push to conformity from my own peergroup or druggie culture that we were constantly reminded of at the seed. But this paled in comparison to the intense pressure that I felt to conform to the seed peer group. In fact, staff counted on this being true...otherwise your new image / conditioning would not 'take', or displace your old conditioning. Or in John's parlance, you wouldn't 'get it'. Getting it was easy in comparison to the effort and long years of critical self-examination that it took to get rid of 'it'.
marshall:
If I haven't already thanked you personally Stripe, I do so now. Your input has been valuable. I appreciate all your efforts in dead-horse beating. I bid you peace. Take care. :nworthy: :wave:
Robin Martin:
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On 2005-08-24 20:10:00, marshall wrote:
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You probably considered your old style / image 'cool' because that's what your old peergroup or culture told you. You likely considered your new haircut 'a good thing' & decided your shag 'needed altering' for exactly the same reasons..."
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Well, duh... :grin:
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Anonymous:
::boohoo::
Antigen:
The funny thing is, in around `73 or `74, the Seed Chick haircut was a shag. My sister and I both got them. I remember it well. I was in 3rd grade.
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
--Old Yiddish proverb
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