I'm sorry about using the word "normal" like that. I know the common way to describe non-disabled people is "abled," but I'm not what word to use for non-disfigured people. "Figured?" "Pretty?" "Healthy?" There are problems with all of those terms. (That's not to say that "normal" is a good term to use, since that just reinforces the idea that disfigured people are somehow "wrong.")
Disfigured people aren't necessarily disabled, you know. I'm technically both, what with my partial hearing loss and the congenital nevus, but a lot of people with craniofacial nevi don't have any disabilities. Likewise, people disfigured by burns or by acid later in life may have difficulty breathing or eating depending on where they were harmed, but they also may not. It's difficult to make generalizations here, since there are so many kinds of "disfigurement."
I definitely agree that the idea of beauty, while in the end an instinctive one, is being used by many companies to set up a kind of "beauty hierarchy." She brought up a great point in a later post that even companies not specializing in beauty products (such as cosmetics and clothing) use beauty as a selling point.
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Disfigured people aren't necessarily disabled, you know. I'm technically both, what with my partial hearing loss and the congenital nevus, but a lot of people with craniofacial nevi don't have any disabilities. Likewise, people disfigured by burns or by acid later in life may have difficulty breathing or eating depending on where they were harmed, but they also may not. It's difficult to make generalizations here, since there are so many kinds of "disfigurement."
I definitely agree that the idea of beauty, while in the end an instinctive one, is being used by many companies to set up a kind of "beauty hierarchy." She brought up a great point in a later post that even companies not specializing in beauty products (such as cosmetics and clothing) use beauty as a selling point.