[100% veg*n ] John Allan - token veganism

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vegan-network, " Sandra Pehrsson " <sandrapehr@h...> wrote:

> Hi there all of you,

>

> I just want to say that I, even though I'm 100 % vegan and live for

my

> thoughts about animal rights and veganism, I love clothes and have

different

> styles & images all the time! Some years ago I was always dressed

as a

> hippie - & even got caught to be checked if I had any drugs on me

ones - me,

> who don't even drink or smoke anything.....

> Obviously they didn't find anything on me, they checked

everything!!!

>

Well I hope they apologised! I'm very anti-drugs, and for being

especially tough on dealers, but I would think that the police should

at least need good reason to believe a person is carrying drugs

before invading their privacy. People should complain when they

behave this way.

It sounds quite embarrassing and humiliating.

>

> I still like the hippie-look, but now I dress & look differently!

> Obsessed with clothes as I am, I've got loads of different outfits -

if I

> feel very girly I dress in short skirts, wear long white socks and

plats, if

> I feel a bit " casual " I wear jeans or if I feel very feminine I

dress smart

> with skirts and long dresses! As I am a singer as well, I prefer to

have a

> sophisticated look at stage which suits the kind of music I'm

singing -

> jazz, and almost always wear long dresses with high heals!

>

> I hope you don't judge me for being a " weirdo " for this (maybe I am

by the

> way!), I'm telling you this because I want you to know that it

doesn't make

> me less vegan for not dressing like a hippie and really stand out

from the

> crowd! I guess I do stand out anyway, quite much really when I go

out in all

> my differant colourful outfits, it does take attention, but I don't

think

> anyone could guess that I'm a vegan who doesn't drink or smoke and

never

> have been drunk even though I'm 25! I know what John Allan said to

me the

> first time I met him;

> " You are the most non-vegan vegan I've ever met! "

> and he didn't seem to respect & like me less for that!

>

I don't quite see how any of this makes you a non-vegan vegan.

I used to wear a lot of bright colours, especially a lot of bright

red, when I was younger, I even had a ra-ra skirt, but I just wore

what I wanted to wear and as a result I was treated as a bit of a

freak by the vegans I knew in the local AR group. They were mostly

quite frighteningly clonish in their behaviour and outlook, and

although we were all AR vegan people which should have bonded us

together, I was picked on, I think partly because I was not a black-

wearing anarchist type. I hated black. I think this was part of the

problem, as well as me not toeing their line when it came to sharing

their liberal views on drugs and on certain other issues. These

things were my downfall and I was never well accepted. I know they

laughed at me behind my back. I can look back now and think of them

as the " Stepford vegans " ! Their sense of how much you had to conform

in order to be accepted fully into the group on a friendship level

was weird and scary. I quite liked one guy from the group (he was one

of the few who was not a dopehead and didn't smoke), and he knew it,

and they all thought it was funny that I liked him. He went along

with his friends and their opinion and laughed at me too, so I was

made to feel like a misfit and a freak for not fitting into their

ways, including dress sense. I have been in other AR/vegan groups

where there is more diversity and not the same peer pressure to

conform thankfully. I felt more at ease in those other groups.

>

> Anyway, enough about me and my crazy personality, just wanted you

to know!

>

If you sound crazy, it's crazy in a really nice way!

 

Lesley

>

> Take care you all!

> LOVE

> Sandra

[Guest guest]

Hi Lesley,

 

>Well I hope they apologised! I'm very anti-drugs, and for being

>especially tough on dealers, but I would think that the police should

>at least need good reason to believe a person is carrying drugs

>before invading their privacy. People should complain when they

>behave this way.

>It sounds quite embarrassing and humiliating.

 

Believe it or not, but they didn't apologised at all! They even took in my

friend who was walking beside me and was dressed " normal " in jeans and stuff

and checked her! Guess they were too proud to admit they had been wrong! It

was a bit embarrasing, but I don't let a thing like that get to me, tried to

see it as 1-0 to me instead, I surely gave them " a long nose " !

 

>If you sound crazy, it's crazy in a really nice way!

>

Thank you, nice of you to say!

 

Take care!

LOVE

Sandra

 

 

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