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Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 1:13 AM1,7991

deviant?

I took a Sociology class on deviance at UGA. It's quite surprising what's considered deviant.

Here's the definition of deviant from www.freedictionary.com :
de?vi?ant (d

nt)
adj. Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.

n. One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.

So, my question is, how are each of you deviant? No TMI here, please! :blush:

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Beach FanaticAuthor

Mar 14, '08 · 1:16 AM#2

I'll answer first.

1. Left handed
2. Adopted
3. Interracial marriage
4. Former vegetarian (still would be if only I wasn't allergic to soy!)
5. Study Kabbalah & other spiritual paths
6. Reiki Master
7. Homeschool my children with Waldorf principles
8. Had purple hair, once
9. Have tattoos
10. Have 5 piercings in one ear, 4 in other
11. Had pierced nose and actually miss it
12. Hate make-up (on me)

There are a zillion other ways, but those are off the top of my sleepy head.

Edited Mar 14, '08 · 1:20 AM

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 5:45 AM#3

SNAP.

I am FAR from deviant ;~)

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 8:57 AM#4

SNAP.

I am FAR from deviant ;~)

Hillarious!!! :rolling:

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 10:05 AM#5

I would say look at that definition and realize that anyone, male or female, who have made great strides in history or brought about great scientific, social or political change have been "deviant' in terms of that particular definition....deviant then has a positive connotation, as it could also mean "progressive" and "liberal" (yes, the dangerous "L" word!!).

Edited Mar 14, '08 · 10:06 AM

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 11:22 AM#6

I think the big question is "what is normal"? :idontno:

Based on statistics I am a total deviant - I graduated college (only 27% do), don't own my home (67% of housing units are owner occupied), and live alone (only 31% live alone or w/ non family members) because I didn't get married at the average age of 25.1 years!

Of course, noone would ever described me as normal! How boring and bland! :wink:

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 11:31 AM#7

I think the big question is "what is normal"? Based on statistics I am a total deviant - I graduated college (only 27% do), don't own my home (67% of housing units are owner occupied), and live alone (only 31% live alone or w/ non family members) because I didn't get married at the average age of 25.1 years! Of course, noone would ever described me as normal! How boring and bland! :wink:

Rest assured scooterbug, you are "normal,"

and all the users in this Forum are "normal," to one degree or another.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Mar 14, '08 · 12:41 PM#8

I used to sit in class & think that everything about me was deviant from that definition. Then reading & responding to posts made me realize that SoWal itself is a bit off-center :floor:

, which is why I love it so.

Anyone that makes SoWal a permanent home is.....

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 12:44 PM#9

deviant?

I took a Sociology class on deviance at UGA. It's quite surprising what's considered deviant.

Here's the definition of deviant from www.freedictionary.com :
de?vi?ant (dv-nt)
adj. Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.

n. One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.

So, my question is, how are each of you deviant? No TMI here, please!

Think I like being ...Deviant.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Mar 14, '08 · 12:48 PM#10

Think I like being ...Deviant.

Me too!!!!;-)

Beach Lover

Mar 14, '08 · 1:06 PM#11

I don't need a man to define me (as in, I've been pretty much single for four years and I am not bothered by it in the least). I hate the mass media because of it's emphasis on materialistic and skinny people (Yay, let's all look like twigs in this country when our education system as a whole sucks). I care more about the happiness of the people around me than my own (which is deviating from normal behaviour in Tally). I eat one meal a day (I don't have the money to support a full three meals a day thing). And my favourite, I am halfway nocturnal.

Moderator

Mar 14, '08 · 3:09 PM#12

I remember that class from when I was there in 81. They actually showed porn movies in one of the lecture halls as part of the class. Oddly, the class was 4 times as big on those days! LOL!

Beach FanaticAuthor

Mar 14, '08 · 5:28 PM#13

I remember that class from when I was there in 81. They actually showed porn movies in one of the lecture halls as part of the class. Oddly, the class was 4 times as big on those days! LOL!

:funn:It was only a small class in the mid 90's, no porns. They did show movies, but the only one I remember had to do with people getting "drunk" while unknowingly drinking non-alcoholic beer. AND I do remember the professor alluding to the fact that the class used included porns in the curric. :blush:

(I had the "deviant" extended version of my education. Went in in 1991, dropped out in 1995, went back in 1998 and graduated in 1999. :cool:

)

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 5:32 PM#14

:funn::funn::funn:

I have body dismorphia; so I guess this is some what disfunctional... FN twiggs :blush:

Hee heee.. I said Fn!!!!!!:rofl:

I remember that class from when I was there in 81. They actually showed porn movies in one of the lecture halls as part of the class. Oddly, the class was 4 times as big on those days! LOL!

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 5:34 PM#15

:funn::funn::funn:

I have body dismorphia; so I guess this is some what disfunctional... FN twiggs

Hee heee.. I said Fn!!!!!!:rofl:

Who you been hangin' around with? I'm shocked, shocked, I say!

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 5:35 PM#16

Heee Heee!!!! BWHAAAA HAAAAAA!!!! DD you made me :rolling:

Who you been hangin' around with? I'm shocked, shocked, I say!

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 5:36 PM#17

Heee Heee!!!! BWHAAAA HAAAAAA!!!! DD you made me

;-)

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 5:54 PM#18

I'm a deviant -- I am straight, have no tattoos, no piercings, no children, get along with my siblings, care about my country and gov't enough to get involved, hitchhike, pick up hitchhikers, don't mind seeing a bug, take time to watch the sun set, take time to stop and smell the flowers, don't stick my nose in the air when I see a homeless person, enjoy talking to strangers, own boats without motors, don't have high speed internet, wear a hat to the dinner table, believe in being honorable (not just when wearing fancy suits), don't enjoy tanning during prime cancer hours, rarely eat at McDonald's, rarely eat vegetables, think all politicians are crooks, don't like Obama, don't like McCain, actually use the 4WD on my auto, have a ladder in my auto, brew my own Starbuck's coffee, enjoy intimate gatherings, wear sandals to work, love to cook, don't have granite countertops, play the banjo, enjoy fingerpainting, donate blood on a regular basis, don't have cable tv, use a sling blade instead of a lawnmower, don't mind asking personal questions, try to avoid walking behind the dumb masses.

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 6:05 PM#19

You know what's so cool about this? No visuals, only personalities. Though some know each other personally, the rest of us just get to know each other through posts. No opinions are formed based on looks, or voices or mannerisms, or any other superficialities. I like that.

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 6:17 PM#20

so you don't notice that I am stuttering?

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 6:28 PM#21

No, and I can't see the bunny ears you're wearing either. Oh wait, that's me. :blink:

Beach Fanatic

Mar 14, '08 · 6:30 PM#22

I'm a deviant -- I am straight, have no tattoos, no piercings, no children, get along with my siblings, care about my country and gov't enough to get involved, hitchhike, pick up hitchhikers, don't mind seeing a bug, take time to watch the sun set, take time to stop and smell the flowers, don't stick my nose in the air when I see a homeless person, enjoy talking to strangers, own boats without motors, don't have high speed internet, wear a hat to the dinner table, believe in being honorable (not just when wearing fancy suits), don't enjoy tanning during prime cancer hours, rarely eat at McDonald's, rarely eat vegetables, think all politicians are crooks, don't like Obama, don't like McCain, actually use the 4WD on my auto, have a ladder in my auto, brew my own Starbuck's coffee, enjoy intimate gatherings, wear sandals to work, love to cook, don't have granite countertops, play the banjo, enjoy fingerpainting, donate blood on a regular basis, don't have cable tv, use a sling blade instead of a lawnmower, don't mind asking personal questions, try to avoid walking behind the dumb masses.

I knew you had faults!

SoWal Guide

Mar 14, '08 · 6:38 PM#23

I would say look at that definition and realize that anyone, male or female, who have made great strides in history or brought about great scientific, social or political change have been "deviant' in terms of that particular definition....deviant then has a positive connotation, as it could also mean "progressive" and "liberal" (yes, the dangerous "L" word!!).

excellent comments hnooe - I was just reading about Ben Franklin today - a real deviant.

look at what he said.

About March 1, 1790, Benjamin Franklin wrote the following in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, who had asked him his views on religion...:

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble...." (Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin. New York: The Viking Press, 1938, p. 777.)

don't you think Benji baby would be considered a liberal extreme extraordinaire? talk about progressive.
his story is more than fascinating.

heck, most of our founding fathers were radicals who considered themselves free thinkers and enlightened men. nothing more than deviant liberals!!!

SoWal Expert

Mar 14, '08 · 7:08 PM#24

excellent comments hnooe - I was just reading about Ben Franklin today - a real deviant.

look at what he said.

About March 1, 1790, Benjamin Franklin wrote the following in a letter to Ezra Stiles, president of Yale, who had asked him his views on religion...:
As to Jesus of Nazareth, my Opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the System of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the world ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble...." (Carl Van Doren. Benjamin Franklin. New York: The Viking Press, 1938, p. 777.)

don't you think Benji baby would be considered a liberal extreme extraordinaire? talk about progressive.
his story is more than fascinating.

heck, most of our founding fathers were radicals who considered themselves free thinkers and enlightened men. nothing more than deviant liberals!!!

It's a good quote, Tootsie, but Ben Franklin was about as far from a what we call a liberal, today. Here are a few more quotes from Ben Franklin, to give you a better picture:

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

To find out a girl?s faults, praise her to her girl friends. :funn:
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles...is absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty and keep a government free.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people mroe easily and more frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Beach FanaticAuthor

Mar 14, '08 · 7:16 PM#25

No cable, either. We're movie junkies, but I can't sit and watch regular tv.

I guess I can't call myself a liberal, either, 'cause I didn't see a thing wrong with anything you quoted.

Like the bunny ears, MissCritter! :wave: