Asterisk Overdoses on Cough Drops and Writes about Cupcakes

The other day on Tumblr, I found something that sparked a thought*:

*Oh no, you say. Especially considering how this was way too early to be thinking.

I usually ignore notes that people post, but this one said something along the lines of

“fuck people who eat their cupcakes with a fork.”

And I found that rather funny—like seriously, what a silly thing to say. Who cares?

But then I thought about it a little more.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if all the prejudices were based on the weird habits of other people instead of physical differences?

Like people who eat their cupcakes with a fork would have a lower station in life because, face it, that’s weird*.

*According to that random person on tumblr.

-Weirder than wanting to be able to marry a person you’re in love with, (even if they’re the same gender as you).

-Weirder than having a different skin color.

-Weirder than being a different religion than somebody else.

-Weirder than being poor.

-Weirder than being born in a different country.

-You get the point…

Because you can chose to eat your cupcake with your hands instead of a fork (that’s how they were made to be eaten—otherwise you’d just have cake).

Whereas all the things people actually are jerks about are things you can’t chose.

So here I was, thinking my idea was super brilliant, judging people based on actual personal choices—especially arbitrary ones like this—that they can change, instead of those that aren’t changeable, when I realized something else:

I eat cupcakes with a fork. Whoops.

That, and I can’t change the way things are—especially not with ideas I’ve conceived at eight o’clock in the morning.

Good luck, world!

~Asterisk