29 August 2020 - who wear glasses

Are you old enough to remember “guys don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses”? It meant “suffer with your poor vision, or you will never get married.” Today it sounds more like a claim of defensive efficacy, but no matter. To mention such a thing at all, even to shoot it down, is to activate the ancient stereotypes and reinforce them, or in other words, I am acting at this moment as a savage agent of evil. It’s all part of my plot.