#glasses rant

[random-weird]

Two little pieces of glass are gonna cost me A HUNDRED AND FORTY POUNDS, not even including the frames. The price of being able to see in the UK apparently...

One day IOLLA will have a showroom in the south of England and I will do a little dance of joy, but for now you can bet I will be going there when I'm in Scotland to buy my glasses, because they do EVERYTHING for EIGHTY FIVE pounds - frame, lenses, thinning. Beautiful. I wish them many many years of business.

[minqy-art]

Having glasses sucks sometimes

It's hard to cuddle or lie down on your side watching tv. Your vision is obscured by dusty, grimy lenses that never get 100% clean. If you lose them, welp, I'm calling into work bc I can't drive and forget being able to see in the winter with a scarf on. Too foggy.

But one thing that people with 20/20 vision will never understand is that feeling of taking your glasses off after a long, hard day and giving your eyes a break from the work it takes to focus during the day. You finally feel like you can completely relax.

*sigh* sometimes glasses suck...but sometimes they don't.

[scribbledstar]

Imma b honest here, I hate it when people wear fake glasses frames for the sake of "fashion" Like fuck you I didn't buy glasses to look cute you piece of shit

[hypotheticalwoman]

My visibility (hah) rant

OK, how many Disney princesses can you guys think of who wear glasses? Not reading glasses, just ordinary, I-can't-see-without-these specs. How about comic book heroines? Female video game protagonists? Female LEGO minifigs? In fact, can you think of ANY woman in a popular film or TV show who had specs when she started and, when the story ended, *still had them*? How about if you don't count characters who are supposed to be nerdy?

See, I started thinking about this when I started thinking about cosplay, and I realised there are, in fact, very few characters I can play without asking my audience to completely ignore my glasses. I've never worn contacts and I don't intend to start now - for a start, they sound expensive and uncomfortable and I've heard way too many horror stories about them, and for a second thing, why the hell should I have to? I *like* the way my glasses make my face look. Whether extreme shortsightedness counts as a disability or not, why should I pretend I don't have it because all the characters I really want to cosplay don't wear glasses?

I got thinking about it more a bit recently, when the LEGO store opened in Manchester. You can make your own minifig there, but it was almost impossible to make one look like me, because there were no female faces with glasses. None. Male faces, sure. No female faces. This, of course, pissed me off, especially since, if I wanna get a LEGO family set for this year's christmas display, I'll be shit out of luck, for me *and* my mother.

In films and TV, of course, a woman shows up wearing glasses, her friends give her a makeover and of course the specs have *got* to go. This obviously implies that you can't be beautiful wearing glasses, and if you do then you're ugly and should grow up and get contacts.

Do they say that about other disabilities? 'Oh, ditch the crutches, girlfriend, you look *so* much better without them.' If they do, it's not nearly as obvious.

Anyway, I'm not really going anywhere with this, I'm not really that eloquent and I just needed to get this out there and state that it wasn't fair, which of course is obvious. However, now it *is* here, I'll have somewhere to point the haters to if they bitch about me wearing my glasses to cosplay Twilight Sparkle or Rogue or Cleo De Nile next year at MCM Expo.