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My sister is a prep.
My LITTLE sister.
Consequently she believes she knows everything there is to know about clothing, music and entertainment. She also believes that her subculture makes her better than me.
I would be perfectly willing to accept age-relative equality in this situation, but her supercilious mindset is becoming infuriating. For example: yesterday she saw me getting out of mother's car dressed in my gothly finery and cried, 'OMIGOD, you look so WIERD! Don't come near my friends!'
Now the implication that I would walk over to her friends, bare my teeth and threaten to drain their blood and perform a Satanic ritual with it was vaguely amusing, but her arrogance is somewhat confusing. She's extraordinarily embarassed to have a goth in the family, as are my younger, preppy cousins. I've grown used to this, but:
Why must people convince themselves that their ideas are the only right ones? It's the very reason monotheistic religions don't suit me.
Not saying I'm not guilty of vanity, either. Most prep lasses are nice to me... of course, they might just be afraid.
Here ends my tirade.
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