Friday, May 15, 2009 ♥
So, I have this friend of mine, who's a guy. Why am I stating his gender? Because you'll need to know.
Yeah. Well. He was telling me just now, about how his parents are so... how should I put this into words... "strict"? No, not exactly strict. It's more like... "freedom-taking".
He felt that his parents had been taking too much portions of his freedom. From the lightest, pettiest things like not allowing him to stay the night over at his friend's house (the friend is a guy too). To the stupid thing like not allowing him to get a room just for himself (with a stupid reason like, "You won't meet your li'l bro as often as soon as you go overseas for university. So take a good care of him." >__>). To the pretty heavy thing which also happened to me: not allowing him to take what he wants to take on University.
So. You might question, "What he wants to take for university, actually?". And here I answer you: He wants to take Graphic Designs. Back then when we were in sec 2 (now we're both sec 4, the difference between us is that he'll go to Pre-U and I college), I could still remember that his drawings aren't too good. But still decent. I don't know about his drawings now, but hey.
Anyway. He told me the reasons his parents used:
"You're a guy, aren't you? Then why are you planning to take art?"
or
"If you're taking art, what'll feed you? Will art feed you? Where are you gonna get money from?"
The second reason, by the way, is just the same thing that my parents used at me. But in my case, I told them that I'm gonna open my own shop one day. And thus, after a lot of struggles and debates and threats and stuffs, I succeeded in persuading them to let me take fashion designs.
Oh, well. Anyway. After knowing the reasons. That's just where I draw the line. THAT'S IT. Yeah.
My responses (paraphrased):
1st reason: Huh? What?! *lol* If you can't take art just because you're a guy... that's... stupid. If guys can't take art, then what would you call Dali? Da Vinci? Picasso? Klimt? Monet? Obata Takeshi? Murakami Takashi? Or, the closest one to us, Mr. Ronal?
2nd reason: Duh. Don't they know that art is one of the safest job in the world? I mean, come on. That's just my theory, but to make your clothes, you need art. To make houses, you need art. To sell stuffs, you need art to make the ads. Yeah. Art is one of the most basic thing in the world, don't you think? Heck, even to make fabrics, you need art. And d'oh. Tell them, if they think art is unimportant, then who'll be making their clothes? And without art, they won't be living in a house.
Because that's true. That's what I think. It's stupid to base things just on genders. That's just simply telling that women can't wear pants. Or stating that men can't wear jewelleries.
And yeah. The second thing is also one of my thoughts. Look everywhere. There's art, isn't it? Even this page you are looking at, it's made with art, for art, by art. Right?
And his response isn't so far away from, "Right..." or "Yeaaah!"
Honestly. I don't get people sometimes.
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