Disclaimer: I know I'm just so wrong about all of this, what I've written here is more of an attempt to put into words my irrational feelings surrounding moustaches and other fashion items.

I deeply genuinely just so completely do not fuck with moustaches in the way alternative men wear them currently. It's a fad and they look horrible, they are larping having that dog in them when they quite frankly don't.

Moustaches work on some people, it takes a certain kind of sauce to pull it off and some people really do. It's not even a thing of "oh they have to be hot already otherwise it looks bad", I think the best moustache I have seen since this all picked up has sat on the upper lip of a man I am not physically attracted to in the slightest (though this is in no way meant to undermine his intruige, just my personal taste). But they work on some people, they really deeply don't on most. I refuse to believe that, in a vacuum, these men would have woken up and been like "oh wow I really think this is for me!". It doesn't accentuate their features, it doesn't fit their style, it's not even full or taken care of in most cases. It is simply a thing of it being a thing at the moment, or it somehow being tied into the alternative style now.

To be very fair, I have this with a lot of leftist "style". I don't like that people can look left, and that others don't. I don't like that there is somehow a way to look gay enough, or leftist enough to be read as such. I don't like feeling like I don't belong just because I don't think noserings look good, or because I don't like piercings, or because I don't like every single guy having a mustache. I don't like feeling like I have to lie every time someone I know wants one of these things. I'm not going to be hurtful and tell them they look bad to me, when everyone else is super excited and thinks it looks so good. It's not that these things are inherently ugly, they just don't fit the person in front me at all.

It feels like fluff when it comes to piercings of any kind. In my eyes it doesn't add anything except a marker of "I'm different! I don't like the conventions in place!". I get it, it's fair, but it makes me uncomfortable seeing people try to defy what they dislike by living as an inversion of it. You don't abolish something entirely by basing your being around being against it. You are, in your own being, strengthening the existence of the very thing you despise. In your decision to stand opposite it, to be the shadow to its light, you continue to refer to it through the sheer fact of a shadow being cast in the first place.

It reminds me of something I read once about mt Fuji. In japanese art, Fuji is so iconic, unavoidable, and monolithic, that even the decision to omit it from a skyline is a reference to the spirit of it. The decision to have it not be there is seen, making one wonder why it isn't there, the focus again being on Fuji. Why not just shrink it a little? Have it blend into the clouds? Sat behind a tree, or faintly shining through a thick mist. It'll be there, its absence strengthens it more than an understated mention ever will. Whatever

Why not dress as you want, without resorting to protest? It's your body, you can do with it as you wish, and if you do truly and deeply just think that a piercing fits you, go right the fuck ahead. My discomfort comes with the feeling of these decisions being formed out of peer pressure, a want to oppose something, a want to belong, or everyone collectively pretending it suits you. I couldn't possibly sit here and claim all of this is true, of course it isn't. My autistic ass can't look past my own tastes and values, fucking classic. I wish someone could explain it to me. I have always been god's most pansexual soldier, I struggle to not find every single person I see on the street pretty in some way, how could I be so wrong about what people genuinely find pretty or cool or handsome or whatever the fuck?

I hate it when people pretend to be someone they're not genuinely