Individuality is easy to preach, but not too easy to practice. In the article, "The Sociology of Leopard Man," by Logan Feys, mentions many topics regarding the individuality of being a human, and an example that Feys mainly focuses on is, the Leopard Man. Throughout the eyes of Feys, he explains how the Leopard Man expresses his individuality by, living in solidarity and having leopard pattern tattoos (hence his name), and compares him to the average human being. In the article Feys argues, "To be human is to be an individual human, with individual tastes, talents, values, and aspirations that are distinct from those of others. Living in society, we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the well of the majority, the school, the workplace, the family, etc." (Feys 6). Humans should start being individual humans, because most of us are strongly influenced, negatively, by the peers at school, society, and social media.
First of all, friends are people that we tend to spend most of our time with, and the more time we spend with one another, some characteristics can be attributed. As Feys mentioned, people have
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In order to be an individual human we need to obtain individual goals. Mostly everything is strongly influenced by society, for example, society promotes petite models on magazines and creates this idea that everyone should all look like that in order to accepted. Kim Kardashian is well known for her implants on her glutes, so men began to idealize this "perfect figure." Feys states, "Could it be that the desire to 'fit in' has led to these self-inflicted diseases?" (Feys 6). Bulimia and anorexia are prime examples of the apparent solution to become like others. Both men and women are under constant pressure to fit within the standards that society proclaims we should follow, but we were born to be