some people will never get it

[rm]

Although, in this thread a lot do.

http://community.livejournal.com/newyorkers/2038821.html

Dressing up (and for that matter, just plain dressing civilly) is by default neither expensive nor uncomfortable. Grow up people!

ETA: You know how I sort of think I've lost my edge since becoming gluten-free and not being celiac cranky all the time? Hahahahaah. Clearly, the Snape-ish nastiness is still in full effect. This stuff makes me CRAZY.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm going to write a long post on this later, but the idea that dressing inappropriately for an occassion is not a rude action -- I don't understand. You'd think America's great egalitarian dream could come up with something better than crappy manners and reality TV.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

We all know the old saw about the poor man who shows up at a wake with his falling-apart, only pair of shoes shined within an inch of its life, and how moved everyone is by this, because he went through that extra bit of effort with what he had. In the thread to leopard_lady's post, I began to detect a bit of whining, as if all the slobs in sweatshirts are that poor man at the wake - they are doing the best they can! And that is what upsets me, because in most cases, they are not. A

The point about theater originally being for the masses was an excellent one and there was a point there. Theater was a rowdy, stinky thing back when. But in New York City especially...I don't know, I just feel the bar has really dropped in the last decade.

Every year my high school drama group did a weekend in NYC to see shows, and after dinner at some restaurant there was always this commotion while a busload of teenagers tried to change into fancy outfits in the little bathrooms before seeing some blockbuster play. We were told this is what you did to see theater, so we did it. I see now we got some valuable training that is just not as popular anymore. Which makes me sad.

Do not even get me started on cell phones.

[rm.livejournal.com]

And I'm all about theatre being for the masses, but it comes back to doing your best as appropriate to the occassion. The masses didn't have and couldn't access better than -- we can now. That's the "reward" of mass production at the expense of many artisan creations and a more formal society. That we don't even take advantage of what we have wrought makes me NUTS.

[schpahky.livejournal.com]

The masses were dead at 30 from plague and childbirth. We have time to buy dresses at Goodwill or Forever 21 or whatever.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. Oh god.