Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Damn, must be getting forgetful in our old age! Overlooked a very good question in yesterday’s post (originally courtesy Misky)
So now I’m wondering if The Doctrine addresses clothing preferences.
It does.
But! A quick, short answer provided little of practical value. Sorta like asking, does this saw cut wood? Can I pound nails with that hammer. ‘Yes’ works. But if we change up the phrasing and make the object of the (first) question the subject and make the ‘clothing preferences’ our interrogative noun, we afford ourselfs of a far more useful question.
Without the aid of the slanting lines, but the ambition of a visual image of transforming (our correspondent’s) original into one that offers a wider, more comprehensive perspective:
So now (I’m wondering if) How The Doctrine addresses clothing preferences among the three predominant worldviews -> clothing preferences -> as common (to all) how do they manifest in clarks, scotts and rogers?
Miz Cai? Would you do the class a favor and come up to the blackboard and diagram this new sentence? If you please.
(Crib sheet entry: how does this request, one that many if not most Readers have experienced in one form or another, manifest to a clark or scott or roger?)
Out of time, as common on Tuesdays. The thing about preferences of fashion (or any other personal affectation) is the simplest approach is to ask ‘How does (this) manifest in the reality of the Outsider, world of a Predator or life of a Herd Member?
The simplest answer: Well, what is consistent with the world around them (and the people who make it up)?
quick RePrint (blog version of smudging the pencil marks of a questionable answer on an arithmetic quiz)
Besides we like to think this Doctrine thing is a lot of fun. We might be talking about someone in the news and one of us will turn to the other and say, “Obama….what a roger!” or we might say to each other, “You know those Progressive Insurance commercials on TV? That Flo person, how much of a clark is she, huh?” So this is not just a website you go to and take a test and find out that your personality type is INTP/otter-with-malamute tendencies, hell no! We have fun because we see clarks and scotts and rogers out there in the world and they act just like the Wakefield Doctrine tells us they should act! And it’s getting like we don’t have to make any of this shit up anymore…the clarks and the scotts and the rogers prove that the theory is totally true. Try it your ownselfs!
Today I have copied a page out of the Table of Contents to show that the personality business is not all dry boring, reading stuff! Clearly we like to borrow stuff, here at the Doctrine. So it should not surprise anyone how we went an sort a used Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck…” thing. But hey if it makes you laugh, then you will be learning the whole thing about which are clarks and which are scotts and which are rogers.
You immediately stop surfing the channels when you come upon a show that uses only black and white documentary photos and film…you might be a roger
You totally love Christmas lawn decorations and cannot imagine having too many lights… you might be a scott
You find a flier stuck under the windshield wiper of your car and you take the time to read it… you might be a clark.
You are asked a question and you start to answer with “in the beginning…” you might be a clark.
You are addressed by the wrong name and you answer to it without correction… you might be a clark.
You are building model cars/ships/planes, you always put the extra parts back in the box along with the re-folded instructions for future safekeeping…you might be a roger.
You think that Slacker was the greatest movie made in the 90s…you might be a clark
You think that Borat was one of the funniest movies of the year…you might be a scott
You think that the 107 episode, Directors cut, 15 DVD un-abashed edition of the compilation (with Writers notes (including what he had for breakfast) and voice-over reading of the credits by someone who knew someone who was a re-enactor who actually got hurt at an event) of all Ken Burns films, PBS episodes and commercials that last longer than most readings of the Iliad is the greatest film of all time…you might be a roger
You have any inclination to wear hats for a fashion statement (for male rogers only) or a ‘fanny pack’ (either male or female rogers), or any clothing designed specifically for riding a bicycle (branded or un-branded)…you might be a roger.
You happen to be at a golf tournament and feel that it is expected of the members of the gallery to yell anything (including but not limited to “get in the hole”)…you might be a scott.
You are contemplating a project of any sort; a new deck or a term paper, writing a resume or planting a garden and you:
…you look forward to making the list of things you need to buy/gather/acquire first more than anything else…you might be a clark
…you must know what your friends on the ’do it yourself’ shows have done, that is what you want…you might be a roger
…CONTEMPLATE? PLAN? I JUST FINISHED IT! FUCK YOU!! IT’S DONE NO THIS IS FINE THE WAY IT IS… you might be a scott
About clarkscottroger
(chuckling) feet up and drinking tea.
;)
To keep it simple, I wear a work uniform. No decisions on what to wear needed.
(but, and we won’t tell another soul, ‘Surely in your closet (we’ll accept the closet of your youth-time) you had a pair of near-combat-boots that was surely to trigger a parental, “You’re not going to wear those with that outfit?!?”)
;p
Actually, you’ve written the definitions yourself in your latter paragraphs.
I’m guessing that the prim and proper work AND casual attire get-up belongs to a clark.
The roger maybe a covert fashion designer, always trying to get eyeballs.
The scott might wear everything except the traditional thing deemed appropriate for the occasion.
Very good.
We take your all-caps AND is meant to create a certain tone* in the Reader’s mind.
Time is a funny thing. It passes more quickly than we realize. OK. Not so funny.
In our very early posts about the fashion choices among clarklike females and scottian females and rogerian women, we might have written, clarklike females do fashion in a way that reflects on of the core elements of the Outsider: ‘clarks do not enjoy being the center of attention yet will not tolerate being ignored’.
Contrast!
…in the hands of a clarklike female: mini skirt over a pair of jeans, runway-model makeup with wrought-iron piercings, business suit and combat boats…
… in the hands of a scottian woman: (favorite line from a post talking about how to identify the single scottian female at a picnic at the beach (from the center of a herd of rogers being heard to say), “You don’t think my bikini is too small, do you?” (lol))
whereas a hallmark of the scottian man or woman is overt, confident and (mostly, non-offensive) aggressiveness, male scotts might playfully punch the guy who appears in charge on the shoulder while smiling… a scottian female the guy who appears in charge in the …ego lol
rogerian women would be successful fashion designers the way authors like Stephen King are successful writers
*see our Reply to Mimi’s Comment about …a work uniform. No decisions on what to wear needed.”