Here we will explore all manner of overextended metaphors, as they appear in our culture, but more prominently as well as we create them through our own
Examine this not atypical conversation:
R: So, people are like clothes!
L: You mean relationships are like clothes?
R: Yes! In that you change them every day?L: Or in that sometimes you buy them cheap from Forever 21 because they look cute at the time but you know they'll fall apart in three months?
R: Yes! And because they're...skimpy? Or that they're sometimes . . . made in sweatshops?
L: Why did this begin?
R: Because people say they don't fit into clothes when they should be saying that the clothes don't fit them! LIKE RELATIONSHIPS.
How else are relationships like clothes?
How else are relationships like clothes?
- Because you can grow out of them?
ReplyDelete- Because sometimes people think hella moneys is more quality
- Because you can shrink them?!?! Hahaha
Yes! When it doesn't work out people are just like. "It wasn't a good fit." This is so confusing. What is the purpose of clothes and how does it relate to the problem of not fitting?
ReplyDelete- PEOPLE THINK THEY NEED CLOTHING BUT MAYBE THEY DON'T?
ReplyDelete- People have super-compartmentalized clothing for certain occasions
I was thinking more like how you think something looks good in the store and then you take it home and you're like this makes me look fat/ugly/frumpy/jaudiced I must never wear it again. In our modern world the purpose of clothing is to make you look good, not keep you warm...or if it keeps you warm it should also make you look good. This is the thing that disturbs me about the relationship=clothes metaphor!
ReplyDeleteAlthough people are probably referring to the whole...I bought this back in the 1990's and now I am like soooo over it/it is now too small/it is now too big kind of "bad fit." BUT STILL.