I chose It's okay to be different as my topic. I agree with the way of thinking behind this, because it puts no limits on the many ways people can behave and interact in society. What I never seem to be able to understand is why people find the need to put every trait into a predefined slot. I usually assume it makes them feel comfortable in their surroundings, but if you have to change everyone else because you can't adjust, then you should just go somewhere else. Then again I don't think someone should even try to change one person!
I see a lot of this in popular culture, an example is Ioana Spangenberg, a Romanian-born model who has a permanent 20 inch waist, she eats three square meals a day and snacks on junk food when she can in between. The reason she stays so skinny is that she claims to have a very small stomach that acts sort of like a natural gastric band. The problem though, is that in Romania, being overweight means you come from a wealthy family. While being skinny means that your family is poor. So while her heavier friends were out, she stayed in and gorged herself on food hoping that she would fatten up. Now because of her body she became a model, which is how she met her husband Jan. Her husband has helped her finally be comfortable in her own skin and she can finally feel beautiful.
