{"id":107,"date":"2019-10-18T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T07:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atbs.bk-ninja.com\/suga\/?p=107"},"modified":"2023-07-29T07:40:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T07:40:29","slug":"i-thought-my-glasses-made-me-unattractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/blog\/i-thought-my-glasses-made-me-unattractive\/","title":{"rendered":"I Thought My Glasses Made Me Unattractive"},"content":{"rendered":"

It<\/span>is, unfortunately, not an uncommon Hollywood trope. Pay attention, and you\u2019ll notice it in many films and television shows.<\/p>\n

The girl with the glasses is unattractive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

She is described as \u201cfrumpy\u201d. She\u2019s called every name from \u201cgeek\u201d to \u201closer\u201d, and it hardly matters whether she is book smart or not. It hardly matters if this is a modern\u00a0Cinderella<\/em>\u00a0or any manner of other contrived boy fixes girl formula.<\/p>\n

Glasses are either a sign that you are demonstrably more intelligent than the average village girl or you are a total charity case, worthy only of a makeover and no honest personal consideration beyond just how much\u00a0prettier<\/em>\u00a0you would look without those frames in your face.<\/p>\n

And from the moment I got my first pair of glasses in fifth grade, I believed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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My eyesight is objectively terrible. I\u2019ve gone through eight prescriptions in nearly twenty years. Some jerk tries to play keepaway with the lenses I wear now, I\u2019m calling an Uber simply for the sake of the lives I\u2019ll save by not chancing the road with zero depth perception.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d have to squint at the GPS eighteen inches from my face, let\u2019s put it that way.<\/p>\n

But aside from the fact that I truly do\u00a0need real help for my eyes to do their job<\/em>, I\u2019m not in fifth grade anymore. If I want to resurrect the gold rimmed and purple speckled tragedies of my youth, I will. If I want a pair for day to day and a pair for nights out, I\u2019ll get them. How ridiculous to think that I\u2019m a loser for my medically necessary accessory? How silly to allow a few too many 90\u2019s Rom-Com scenes to control my self perception for so long?<\/p>\n

The girl with the glasses isn\u2019t frumpy. She\u2019s myopic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(And have you seen photos of Kate Beckinsale wearing glasses? Or Rachel Weisz? Be still my beating heart\u2026)<\/p>\n

Yes, I\u2019m the girl with the glasses, and I\u2019ve (finally<\/em>) grown beyond thinking that\u2019s a bad thing.<\/p>\n

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Itis, unfortunately, not an uncommon Hollywood trope. Pay attention, and you\u2019ll notice it in many films and television shows. The girl with the glasses is unattractive. She is described as \u201cfrumpy\u201d. She\u2019s called every name from \u201cgeek\u201d to \u201closer\u201d, and it hardly matters whether she is book smart or not. It hardly matters if this is a modern\u00a0Cinderella\u00a0or any manner of other contrived boy fixes girl formula. Glasses are either a sign that you are demonstrably more intelligent than the average village girl or you are a total charity case, worthy only of a makeover and no honest personal consideration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themeproducers.com\/suga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}