Hello all, for those new guys who may know me by my shitposts and antics, a couple months ago I use to do these "social experiments", where I would ask #offtopic a question with a set of dynamic answers to produce a possible correlation, or just to survey the fine users here in our little corner of the web. I just ask that you reply seriously, or don't reply at all, so we can have some quality discussion.
So the topic of the day, conformity. The term is a tad vague, but for all intents and purposes, I would like you to define it for yourself, and choose where you belong. I separated into age groups because I feel like there could be a stigma for or against the term depending on which part of life one is at. I focused on the teenage/young adult years because that is when our perceptions and opinions on things change the most frequently.
[b]Would you consider yourself a conformist?[/b]
And for further inquiry, [b]what is your opinion on the term "conformist?" Negative feelings towards it? Positive?[/b]
Please comment with your age (or age group if you feel more comfortable doing so) and answer, I just put the poll as a visual aid. And remember, every time you vote in a poll and don't comment, a little kid drops his ice cream on the ground, and unknowledgeable of germs, eats it and dies from a tragic case of e-coli. Think of the children.
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Edited by Princess Anomaly: 7/25/2015 4:28:35 AMA conformist by definition is "a person who conforms to accepted behavior or established practices." I'm gay atheist and feminist so I'm pretty sure I fall into the opposite of that. And I'm a musician but even in the music world I avoid what's mainstream popular and am more intrigued by jazz bands and small-time avant-gard prog and fusions bands. In fact my username is "Anomaly" (also my stage name) because in science you have paradigms, which are like the established rules, and you have anomalies, which are outliers. If enough anomalies occur it's possible for the paradigm to be changed. I grew up as an "outlier." I never fit in, never had a lot of friends, never followed what was trendy, popular, whatever. I just kind of did my own thing. And furthermore I hope that I can do my part to shift some of the paradigms of modern culture.