Modded vs. Mainstream

I've gotten sort of addicted to reading BMEzine (Body Modification Ezine) over the last couple of years, since before I got my first tattoo (first and only so far; definitely more to come). Since it's an alternative lifestyle site, you'd expect people to be quite liberal - and I mean in the broad sense, not the abusing-English-languge-US-political sense - but there are some people on there who are quite as fanatically anti-mainstream as some "normal" people are bigoted.

Check out the comments section of the post linked to in the conversation below. Don't scroll up to the pictures if you're at work. Just know there's a mostly naked woman with piercings in interesting places and augmented breasts.

[22:42] me: *groan* people on ModBlog are stupid
[22:42] Steve: ?
[22:42] me: OK...people in an online community DEDICATED to implanting strange things in your body are bashing fake boobs
[22:42] Steve: ...
[22:42] Steve: ROFL
[22:42] Steve: why?
[22:42] Steve: cause it's too mainstream?
[22:44] me: they're coming up with all kidns of wanky arguments like “There are some well documented differences between cosmetic surgery and non vanity-based modifications. The main differences are the motivations behind such actions and the outcomes of each."
[22:44] Steve: why are they angry? how are they not happy with it?
[22:44] me: but frankly those are after-the-fact arguments. I'm pretty sure the people who are sneering at fake boobs it's because they're too mainstream.
[22:44] Steve: ahh
[22:44] me: here...*sigh* look at poster #16. he's quoting from some other forum. http://modblog.bmezine.com/2008/03/17/nipple-shields/#comments
[22:45] me: don't scroll up though, the pictures are NSFB (Not Safe For Ben)
[22:45] Steve: that's a bit nsfbigben
[22:45] Steve: rofl
[22:45] me: LOL
[22:45] Steve: wow
[22:45] Steve: thinking way too much alike

(Ben is Steve's extremely conservative friend whom he's visiting for spring break.)