"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."
Hannah Arendt
(courtesy of brainyquote.com)
After years of my father telling me that there were only two groups of people in the world, deviants and non-deviants, I finally discovered that there was a difference between a deviant and a criminal. Everyone is a deviant in their own way; a criminal is someone who breaks laws that are established by government. A deviant is someone who acts differently compared to societies standards. For instance, I may not be a criminal, but I do not follow certain social norms when it comes to gender. I may like cooking, Paris, and sparkly things, however I do enjoy reading comics, worshiping Batman, and playing the occasional video game. Since these are things that are most commonly associated with the male gender, I am therefore a deviant. Anyone who says that they are in no way, shape, or form a deviant, obviously are kidding themselves.
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