Living In A World Of Taboo
What Has The World Come To!? Three-legged baby! 200 PD. Woman! The Bearded Lady! Remember when grandma told us stories of when these anomalies were considered freaks of nature and could only be seen at the Freak Show? Look around grandma now the world is a Freak Show! For years now babies born conjoined(stuck together) have been read about with nothing more than heart warming awe’s, filmed, some lucky enough to be surgically freed from one another and chronicaled on those channels that I speed past.
Come One, Come All. Step right up and see The Fattest lady in the world! Not anymore! Now you’ve got some poor kid looking past the Fat Lady into the crowd of onlooker’s, scratching his head and pointing, “Which one?” And your thinking, “Hey kid, don’t you fucking point at me…I’m big-boned.” Yeah…Me too.
The Bearded Lady? Forget about it! I see several of those walking the streets, working in stores and serving our food. I think that The Bearded Lady was just a woman who didn’t care to shave…for many…many years. Okay I will admit from the old photo’s they showed that she had a little more estrogen than most overly estrongened(is that even a word?) ladies. Or she had that added touch that many of is women have had or still have, a wig piece.
I got to tell you in the world we live in today, while still riddled with socially inacceptable’s, what was once considered rebellious behavior is now all the norm. The world has come a long way from being that horrible time when appearances certainly outweighed logic and human secrets were kept in hidden rooms or sent to the Circus. It has become more compassionate to the behaviors, deformities and rights of others.
Women covered from head to toe in tattoo’s, people considered weird because of some quirky behavior. I love it! Sure we will always have labels, without them we would still be cavemen making noises at each other because there would be no use for words. So what could the headlines read in the distant future for a Freak Show?
The Amazing Two-armed, Two-legged, One-headed Creature!
Come One, Come All Step Right Up and See The Skinny Woman
You’ve Read About Them In Stories…Seen Them In Your Dreams…Ladies and Gentlemen We Present To You…White People! (in reference to how the minority population outweighs)
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