Comments on: Maybe You Just Have To Get Used To It

By: StanFlouride

StanFlouride — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:14:10 +0000

When I was studying ASL I learned that even today there is a similar bigotry such as Charlene mentions toward people wearing hearing aids and other prosthetics. I had never even considered it but after learning of it I have observed it distressingly often.

By: nlpnt

nlpnt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:01:54 +0000

In 1940, those were the glasses of the future. By 1960, they were the glasses of the present. In the 1980s, they were the funny old glasses your grandma kept as spares. Now, they’re almost too retro to be retro.

By: katey

katey — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:10:35 +0000

Haven’t you seen How to Marry a Millionare?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:43:55 +0000

And = at

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:43:17 +0000

Guys don’t make passes and gals who wear glasses.

By: John M. Hanna

John M. Hanna — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:54:34 +0000

Forget the glasses, its the unnaturally dark colored lips and wierd hats that put me off. And another thing, I swear the one in the middle is a guy.

By: Eliyahu

Eliyahu — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:20:32 +0000

This attitude is still with us. The attorney for whom I work won’t wear his bifocals even when he’s reading because he thinks it’ll make him look old. (Unlike using his magnifying glass and/or squinting at the page from inches away…) The funny thing is that I’m four years older than he is (60) wear trifocals, and people still think I’m at least ten years younger than he. Vanity, oh vanity…

Regarding the story itself, those glasses were a vast improvement over the previous round lenses that had been standard fare for many years. It’s much easier to get people to wear them when they’re attractive instead of ugly.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:34:18 +0000

This attitude had passed by the sixties: http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....r-glasses/

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:26:52 +0000

The 1930’s stereotype of men who wore glasses was nearly as harsh: foolishly intellectual (the origins of the nerd stereotype) with strong overtones of effeminacy and homosexuality. There’s a weird anti-eyeglass ideology for both men and women that is still alive today. A few years ago, a male friend of was having difficulty seeing road signs and other distant objects. I’ve worn glasses since I was 8 and I immediately advised him to get his eyes checked. He didn’t want to, saying that his mother had always told him that poor vision was caused by “weak” eyes. He believed that if he started wearing glasses, his eyes would become dependent on this “crutch,” eventually ruining his vision entirely, while continuing to squint myopically at the world would somehow “strengthen” his eyes. This guy has a PhD in physics, by the way.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:05:57 +0000

My mother grew up in the 30s and wore glasses. According to her, it was almost a sin for a young woman to wear glasses on the street. The young woman who did so would be thought of as either a “pinch-mouthed man-hater” (her words) or a slob. Real, feminine women carried around their glasses, only taking them out to read and spending the rest of their lives half-blind.

She thought it was strange; men would sneer at the “vanity” of women who wouldn’t wear their glasses, but they’d be viciously cruel to girls who did wear glasses in public.