People of WalMart

[Prudence]

We place so much emphasis on a person's appearance being the sine que non for value. If a person is ugly, fat, dresses funny, has a physical deformity, whathaveyou they are judged to be less valuable humans.

I'd grant some leeway on the "dressing funny", as some people intentionally dress to stand out. I'm pretty sure that Euro knew that his attire was not the norm, and that it not being the norm was the point. I'm pretty sure that sideless shirt guy intentionally turned an article of clothing into a set of torso mudflaps. I'm pretty sure that people who dye their hair blue want me to notice that their hair is, indeed, blue.

But people who wear sweatpants to grocery shop? Or who haven't the foggiest clue how to dress fashionably? I might not be able to stop the internal snicker - that's human. But I don't have to snap a photo and post it publicly with the caption "world's lamest people". If a photo of me in a costume-like get-up makes the rounds - hey, I did it to be noticed. When photos of me going about my usual life get posted for public ridicule because I've been judged insufficiently attractive to be in public, that's pretty harsh. There are plenty of other ways I can make myself feel good that don't involve making other people feel bad.

And they don't all involve curing cancer.