{"id":592,"date":"2006-03-28T01:16:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-28T01:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2006-03-28T01:16:48","modified_gmt":"2006-03-28T01:16:48","slug":"v-for-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"V For Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why, in general, do English-educated bloggers frown upon, and make fun of girls (and boys, especially boys) who act cute and flash the peace victory sign in pictures?<\/p>\n<p>Is it because we are predisposed against overly cute things?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>It is because, of all the poses overused when taking pictures, it symbolizes that the person using the gesture is <b>harmless<\/b>. If we make fun of you, we can get away with it, because <b>you will not come and kick my ass<\/b>. (Unless you can <a href=\"http:\/\/cheeserland.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/reason-why-my-typing-sucks_114156304756803653.html\" target=\"_BLANK\">claw someone to death<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>If you are male, all the more we will make fun of you. &#8220;<i>Oh look a pansy, let&#8217;s make fun of him!<\/i>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we could make fun of the kids who make the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Devil_horns\" target=\"_BLANK\">Devil&#8217;s Horns<\/a> gesture, but they&#8217;ll kick your ass. They&#8217;ll smash a beer bottle and shove it up you. It is not wise to assume that they learnt it only from Avril Lavigne.<\/p>\n<p>We could insult angsty people with their middle fingers in the air, but they&#8217;d come back and flame us.<\/p>\n<p>So what are <i>kawaii<\/i> cute girls going to do? Make you claw your eyes out with their cuteness? What if they&#8217;re not that cute to begin with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, in general, do English-educated bloggers frown upon, and make fun of girls (and boys, especially boys) who act cute and flash the peace victory sign in pictures? Is it because we are predisposed against overly cute things? No. It is because, of all the poses overused when taking pictures, it symbolizes that the person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}