Karl, brown is a color, too. I bought brown contacts!!

At 10:24 AM 9/7/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Moira wrote:
>> But why do you distrust contact lenses? Is it the plastics?
>
>1.) The facism of beauty.  The cliche of the mousy little girl who becomes
>a bioling sexpot has done a bit to add a touch of the erotic to glass, but
>contact lenses are still part of the Tyrany of the Beautiful People.  I've
>never been able to understand the Warner Brother's cartoons where Bugs
>puts on a pair and saus "you wouldn't hit a guy with glasses, would you?"
>My experience is that people have a hard time NOT hitting a guy with
>glasses.
>
>2.) Massochism is painful.  I've never been able to understand how people
>put those things on their EYES.  Every instinct and reflex realed against
>it when I tried.
>
>3.) The facism of beauty (again).  80% of the human population has
>brown eyes.  Those who would sell color contacts want you to believe that
>brown in a boring, ugly color
>
>Devil's Dictionary-
>Nerd: Someone who dresses for comfort and not for style.
>
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