Before we even make eye contact, I realize I hate the man walking down the grocery aisle toward me. He\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds never kicked my dog, I\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve never slept with him\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdin fact, we\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve never even met. But in bold white letters, the word \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdVEGAN\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd is printed across his black T-shirt. Staring at his malnourished frame as it hovers over the seasonal produce, I clutch my package of extra-fatty bacon and feel as though we\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve had an argument.<\/p>\n
I\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve been having this reaction more and more frequently as the streets of Toronto turn into a silent battleground of the slogan. Cheap pastel Ts are usurping the button, the blog and the bumper sticker as the vehicle du jour for pop-cultural identification. And it\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds not just here. Every city in North America has been inundated with these bold, reductive catchphrases. They are the passive-aggressive accessories of a mute generation.<\/p>\n
From The Clothes Make The Man<\/a>, by Siri Agrell, in the February\/March issue of Maisonneuve<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before we even make eye contact, I realize I hate the man walking down the grocery aisle toward me. He\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bds never kicked my dog, I\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve never slept with him\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdin fact, we\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdve never even met. But in bold white letters, the word \u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bdVEGAN\u00c3\u00af\u00c2\u00bf\u00c2\u00bd is printed across his black T-shirt. Staring at his malnourished frame as it… Continue reading Passive-aggressive accessories of a mute generation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}