Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

I bet she has to deal with pretty hostile reactions in her day to day life. Maybe not quite as horrible as "You should kill yourself", but still pretty bad.

UK TV station Channel 4 had an interesting documentary where they paired up people with facial disfigurement and people who really wanted cosmetic surgery. The comments that people with facial disfigurement had to endure in everyday life really were awful. (And there's plenty of research showing "ugly" people do less well than "pretty" people in things like job interviews and pay rises etc.)

--- (Unfortunately, most of the programmes had confrontational pairs who had little interest in understanding the other person.) The most interesting was a man who had extensive burn scars on his face, paired up with a woman who had large breasts. He went in saying that she should not have surgery at all. After a while he could see just how horrible people were to her just because of her large breasts. That's S01E01.

(http://www.channel4.com/programmes/beauty-the-beast-ugly-fac...)

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2010/aug/26/bea...)



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: