I think the dress code is stupid. But if he were against it, he should not have attended at all. To attend and make a scene is just about publicity. It touches the superficial thread of rebellion without being respectable or commendable.
Rules don't get changed due to people quietly saying "I don't like this rule" while staying at home. Public rebellion is what gets the job done. Protests that don't inconvenience anyone are irrelevant.
Would it have been quiet if the defending champion decides to stay at home and when someone asks him he says it's because of a disagreement about the event's rules? Wouldn't that have gone around and raised the issue/discussion?
I'm still undecided who's right here or who should have done what: I'm not for stupid dress codes, but it also seems silly to get hung up over if you can easily comply at no detriment to your performance or anything, so idk, just saying that it does seem like an option to stay home if you disagree when you're someone whose absence would be very conspicuous
I mean...I feel like lots of rules are changed by people just saying they don't like the rule? Modern society would be pretty unworkable if the only way to change any rule was public rebellion.
(Plus, its not really clear to me that Carlson actually cares about the dress code rule? By his own admission, he broke it by accident, not like a concious act of rebellion, and his issue seems to have been with the way it was then enforced rather then the rule itself.)
He didn’t yell or cause a scene, he broke the rule, received a punishment and explained his reasoning in an interview afterwards. That is perfectly respectable in my opinion.
Part of what makes showing up in jeans way more valuable than not showing up is how normal it seems otherwise. Show, don’t tell, basically. If you didn’t know about the rule it wouldn’t have seemed out of place at all.
