Best part of all of this is skateboarding has truly become everything it once used to be against:
- being judgmental
- wanting to dissect everything about someone's appearance so more judgment can be cast and accusations can be made
- being ready to stereotype based on appearance
- being upset if someone dares to look remotely like someone you don't like for any reason whatsoever
- being cool to look for any far-fetched reason to try and align someone with something you hate because of their appearance
- being totally up for ganging up on anyone who doesn't fit the mold of acceptability
- chastising and shaming those who don't "look acceptable" regardless of reason for being different
Not that skateboarders haven't been petty and judgmental since the dawn of time, but holy fuck, so many of us truly became the same fucking jocks we rallied against for years, funny how that which was once "counterculture" can't handle anyone going against the grain now.
Skateboarding is fun, skateboarders can be fucking retards. ? Precisely why I've done it 100% alone for the past decade. ? There's nothing "punk rock" left any longer, this game takes itself way too fucking seriously now.