Maybe it's just me . . .

[pegkerr]

But I'd much prefer to celebrate my 50th birthday by getting a black belt than by reveling in the opportunity to dine in public wearing a purple dress and red hat. And by buying a lot of other tacky purple and red merchandise.

I kinda liked the idea of the Red Hat Society when it first came out, but I think they've been overtaken by merchandising greed and now they seem rather more cringe-inducing than empowering. And sdn is right, their website is really rather scary. If not downright blinding.

(Oh, and my fiftieth birthday is still three years away. Well, almost two.)

Comments

[nmalfoy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the idea of the red hats has kind of been overshadowed now. See, I think you should spend your birthday doing something that is uniquely you and that makes you happy. *That's* the idea behind the wearing of red hats-- to be free to be who you are. Sadly, I think it's gotten lost.