Listen, if I had a kid who turned punk I’d be glad because as subcultures go punk is pretty based.
My daughter went punk then goth and then several other things I never bothered to look up. She is now a school teacher who only occasionally has bright florescent hair.
I’m extremely proud of my niece for being a metal kid.
As a Texas resident with a few friends in who are professional teachers… oof. I’m so sorry to hear this story has a sad ending.
Texas resident
Well there’s your problem.
If my kid spiked their hair and started living in a collective and spending their days doing direct action and mutual aid I’d be so fucking proud.
Rap has it’s roots in punk because they were the only clubs that allowed them to perform at the time
People don’t turn punk overnight. It has been a long time coming. You just didn’t notice it.
As a kid, I didnt really understand “punk”. Based of how media portrayed them, they were always a gang, always looking to start trouble and destroy things, get into fights, commit crimes, all the bad shit people didnt like. Then as an adult, I come to find it was just a music movement, like hiphop and rock. So what the fuck? And then it turns out punk music was pretty cool, too.
Given how political punk was right from the start, I wouldn’t call it “just a music movement”.
It also has a big Anarchy vibe.
Going against the norm, which the norm doesn’t like.
That kid’s moments away from flipping off Spock on a bus.
The Nelsons sounds like a kick ass punk band.
This picture looks like the basis for 1/4 of the Kids In The Hall’s skits.
I feel like Bruce McCulloch had a closet full of flannel shirts with the arms cut off.
fire fire fire, fire on my BRAIN
Our parents and their parents all tried to conform to a type of idyllic family stereotype that was never attainable. Family members were ignored and ostracized for behaving outside that stereotype. Excuses like “it’s a fad” started specifically because of the need to explain away the behavior without allowing any follow up questions.
It took a long time but we are finally able to embrace our differences and recognize what’s actually normal. Conservatives are still fighting to live that unattainable lifestyle and mad at everyone else cause they can’t.
I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.
I want a suburban home. I want to be a clone
All good man, nobody’s gonna kink shame
I love the kinks!
And could you imagine what that does to you mentally? Trying to square the circle? I’d imagine people that subscribe to that ideal have vastly higher domestic abuse rates. As long as they aren’t murdering small animals and hurting other people, your kids and family are growing fine.
That’s Bernie Kopell, aka Siegfried.
I think of him as Doc from The Love Boat, but that works too.
Oh, I thought it was the dad from ALF.
