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Wednesday, March 21. 2018

Today's Sideshow


Unusual, eccentric, unexpected, bizarre, or grotesque presentations are fascinating to people. Curiosities, like strange deep-sea fishes, people with deformities, men in drag, effeminate gays, oddballs like Milton (in the movie, not the poet) and many other famous movie oddballs,  etc. etc.  People far outside the norm can be repellent or subject to morbid curiosity. Elephant Man and La Cage aux Folles was a huge hit.


Does Caitlin Jenner have a "disease"?  I don't know and I don't care.  I do know that human fantasy has no limits. (This is an old interview)



Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:25 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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It is fascinating. Even children will pick up on these things and speak up often embarrassing adults. Why? Because as adults we get trained by society to not see these things and if we see them to say nothing. Even eye rolling is a no-no. That's why people comment on accents or odd physical characteristics or rings other piercings and bizarre tattoos or pink/blue hair or buzz cuts on women. BUT, it is exactly for that reason that they do these bizarre things. That is for the attention and the opportunity to be outraged over the attention.

There is no one over the age of 21 with pink hair, bizarre tattoos and piercings who is innocently the victim of unwanted attention. They did what they did to get that unwanted attention so they could angrily express how unwanted it is.
#1 TheRiver on 2018-03-21 13:28 (Reply)
Had a nurse in the OR today that was 7 1/2 months pregnant. She had tattoo sleeves on both arms and I did wonder what type of mother she would be. Hopefully not one matching her appearance. Wonder if she thought about being a young mother when she was getting all those tattoos. I think she had a nose ring too. I'm too old to understand all this body modification stuff.
#2 JC on 2018-03-21 19:02 (Reply)
I'm old enough to remember when Caitlyn was called "Mr. Wheaties."

Nobody realized just how flaky he/she really was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNU90DQn5lw
#3 Jim on 2018-03-21 20:27 (Reply)
Come back Bruce, and all will be forgiven. Us normals are a forgiving lot.
#4 Arty on 2018-03-21 20:48 (Reply)
Nope. Each human bears responsibility for their own happiness. How does the saying go? Not my circus, not my monkeys. I'll pass on the spectacle. I'll not be attending any enforced parades.
#5 Aggie on 2018-03-22 09:28 (Reply)
If he doesn't have a disease, why was it necessary for him to have surgery and to continue to take medications to fix his problem?
#6 mike m on 2018-03-22 11:40 (Reply)
This thread went in a different direction than what I expected. My first thought is that the freakshow is everywhere now, not just behind the curtain or locked in the basement. Then I thought how is the media any different from the old carney barker exploiting the oddities among us. Not sure that oddities is a word but you get my drift.
#7 Exasperated on 2018-03-22 19:19 (Reply)

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