Why do people love rebels?

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Personally, I do not see how me having long hair makes me a rebel. I like the way I look. F*** what everyone else thinks. If long hair was good enough for Jesus, then it is good enough for me. I'll skip the facial hair, though.

I have never intentionally broken the law, and I never will. It is sad to see how in my area (Arizona) it is considered cool to harm people who are different than you. I am particularly looking at the illegal immigrants here. I am not racist, but there seems to be a culture where it is okay for them to harm anyone that is different than themselves. I do not think I should be considered a racist just because I am white and I consider their obviously destructive behavior wrong. Stupid f***ing double-standards.

tl;dr: If you are not doing anything that is harmful to yourself or the people around you, f*** what they think! Be yourself.

We need to give you some lady lessons, so you can act more like a lady.

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yeah, I did have a crush on Han Solo as a little girl... but to be honest, I'm not that attracted to bad boys anymore as I am to shy, quiet, not-particularly-interested types.

are you going to send me to a boarding school for young ladies in Switzerland?

Just be careful. The next shy, quiet, not-particularly interesting guy you meet could turn out to be your long lost brother. Any you might not find that out until AFTER you give him tongue...

are you kidding me? I don't even talk to guys before taking the DNA test (hippie parents) :p

Wow, I'd love to see their faces when you stop them mid-sentence and ask for a sample.

they already get anxious when the see me put on my rubber gloves ;p

Would you rather they get anxious or excited?

*thread derailment ahead!!*

lol
Wait...what were we originally talking about?

We are talking about lolcats. We were always talking about lolcats. Someone post one please.

I am that type.

Although I often yearn to be more bad-boyish. But there can be no escaping your true & original nature, can there?

Women go for the rebel type because American culture idolizes it. Our country was founded as a Revolution, and even before, in the colonial days, independence, self-reliance, and a bit of a defiant nature helped people get by on the wild Frontier. Of course, the archetype has become trashier and trashier through time. Free thinkers of the Enlightenment and Revolution were in time replaced with cowboys, who at least maintained some virtuous qualities (at least in the folklore passed down). That archetype gave way to the contemporary ideal of the rebel as thuggish rapper whose only "values" are greed, misogyny, and violence. Obviously this matches the blatant pandering to the lowest common denominator we see in popular culture.

^That's interesting observation in the way you put it. I so-called rebels differ from time period to time period and culture to culture. In America, that's what I see a lot of worshipping in is the thug-like culture especially from women. I'm not sure if all women think this way since I've never been into that much less had girlfriends into it. But I have seen many girls gravitate toward that kind of jerk.