Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The Blind Humping the Blind

Check out this super interesting article about how blind people fall in lust despite not being able to see each other. You're probably thinking it's all very Laura Dern and Rocky in Mask but many blind folk, like most sighted jerks, want to be associated with a hottie, even if they can't appreciate or even imagine what 'blond' means.

'When I was a teenager, I went to a boarding school for blind children where the sound of wildly rushing male and female hormones could be heard on every corridor. I particularly remember a new girl arriving. No one took much notice in her first few weeks... until one lad said they'd heard she was blonde....she suddenly started getting a lot of attention after her hair colour was made known. Of course, few of her admirers could see her crowning glory, or even knew that blonde was a kind of light yellowy brown, but because "blondes" are talked about as desirable...she became very popular.'

So the blind can be superficial (they're people right??) but check this out, the author, Damon Rose, also talks about how good looking sighted people will, apropos of nothing, start describing themselves to him just so he knows they're good looking. 'Some people just can't bear the idea that the blind person in the room won't consider them special or even worth talking to... until they tell you how good looking they are.'

Weird, huh??

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