Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting to note what different people think of as representational. A popular firearms magazine declined to run a review of it saying, (I'm paraphrasing) "there aren't enough normal looking people in it." I'm not sure if it was Michelle's pink hair, or Cicelia's tattoo or Bash's dreads. Pink hair, tattoos, and dreadlocks seem very "normal" to me here in urban Philadelphia -- but they might not to someone from Montana, or Utah or even central Pennsylvania. What's normal and proper to some seems perverse to others. One email I got said "you could have done without the gang bangers" -- which I took to mean "people with dreadlocks or corn-rows or knit caps" I don't know if there are any gang members in my book -- but I didn't meet anybody who gave me the impression they were, yet that ability to jump to a conclusion exists both within and without the gun community and can be pointed in any direction. It was a useful lesson for me and one of the things that I think helped me grow as a person during this process. Kc