Ugh!

The other day in English, I noticed that eleven out of the thirteen girls in our class were wearing boots, specifically ugg boots. I looked down at my own scruffily smudged converses, and wondered to myself were I had lost the memo about wearing boots. In High School, stereotypes always assert the idea of conformity, and the need for acceptance that one must have in their own society of peers. So much so is this acceptance amongst peers, that our class has 84.6% of the girls wearing the same style of footwear.   Similar statistics have appeared in the books we have read this year. For example, Gogol spends the majority of his life trying to fit in with society, and ends up losing much more than he anticipated from his self-centered conformity. Personally, I am not a big fan of boots, especially uggs. Some can definitely be cute, but it’s primarily the word that bothers me: “ugg.” It sounds like you have something caught in your throat; “uggggg.” Or it sounds like someone clearing their throat; “ugg..g..ggg..gg.” It is also the universal string of letters for deep disappointment; “uggghhhh.” These peculiar sounds that surround the name of the boot give off a negative connotation for the word, so I looked up the definition of “ugg” in order to clear some assumptions up. What I found for the definition was “a sheepskin boot or ugly.” Why would you choose to name your product after a word whose other meaning is ugly? Modern society is just so baffling…