Brenton
Crying Clubs
February 7th 2008 13:05
Crying clubs are pretty self explanatory. The antithesis to a nice happy night out, Crying Clubs are where groups join together to cry their hearts out together.
They usually will have a number of people in the club cutting onions, to help stimulate the tears.
One would have to wonder how such a phenomenon may have gathered such vast popularity.
To understand one possible explanation, we have to go over a couple of the basic ideas of the idea of what constitutes Gothic.
Gothicism began during the Victorian Era, a time period characterized by the view, popularized by the monarch of the time, that one should aspire to goodness and properness.
The reaction to this popular idea of ‘goodness and correctness’ was equally matched by a sense of ‘evil and wrongness’ – a movement that became the Gothic.
If we look at today’s world, the overwhelming mood seems set more by the major corporations than Political figureheads, and the message is the same – feel good, feel good, feel good. If there was to ever be an equal and opposite reaction against this kind of thinking, the Crying Club would have to be it’s exact physical manifestation.
Boo Hoo. We party with you.
Image by by Zefrey Throwell; Valencia Street; San Francisco, CA, uploaded by Franco Folini and licensed under a Creative Commons attribution Share Alike License.
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But the whole thing is silly enough that is doesn't really matter if it gets a bit sillier.