52
edits
Ugly Laws: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 24: | Line 24: | ||
Society didn’t see them as unlucky. It saw them as offensive. This led to chronic isolation, untreated mental illness, and a learned belief that they were less than human. | Society didn’t see them as unlucky. It saw them as offensive. This led to chronic isolation, untreated mental illness, and a learned belief that they were less than human. | ||
==Enforcement: Aesthetic Policing in Action== | |||
Cops and local officials were aesthetic enforcers. Their job was to protect society from hideous faces. If your face ruined the sanctity, you could be ticketed or detained. There are cases of people being publicly removed from parks, sidewalks, or churches simply for how they looked. | |||
"I have been arrested more than once for just walking outside... People say I frightened children. I didn’t even say a word." | |||
— anonymous interviewee, cited in Susan Schweik, The Ugly Laws | |||
(University of Chicago Press) | |||