The whole problem with identity is that as we are all something like 98% alike and refuse to admit it so we focus on the pissant 2% that is different. None of that makes the whole arbitrary bullshit thing any less important but rather adds an undeserved importance to it all.

BTW........The only saving grace to a tie is that I personally like where they point.........But when I was teaching it was requirement. They had a hundred reasons for them so I started wearing ties I had made from alternative materials, like paper clips. This of course casused a real stink which wasn't the reason I did it exactly, rather it was just something to do to pass the time. James Kunen once wrote out a personal classification I adopted for most things in life.......Mildly Amusing or Pain in the Ass.

To keep the world in Category One often requires elements of the "Counter-Ridiculous" or things spill out into a depressing Category Two. Sadly, too much is solidly entrenched in what I realized was a missing Category Three......Just Don't Give Rat's Ass.

This entire subject and most opinions about it are deep in the 3-Hole.

Spaw