Ugly People Unite!

A meme on social media mocking the ugly is perfectly acceptable.

As a society, some might say we've come a long way. Fat models are finally showing up everywhere, especially on those TV home shopping networks and in almost every underwear print ad. High-end fashion houses have proudly employed them on the runway, along with models with Downs Syndrome and in wheelchairs, during New York's Fashion Week. Little people have their own reality show, as do the morbidly obese weighing in at 600 pounds and those lunatic "hoarders" living in squalor with boxes full of packaged soy sauce, broken doll parts, cracked dishes, tattered stuffed animals and abandoned car parts. Transgenders are as common as apple pie, and just as American. Nobody looks twice at the teeny-tiny, the double amputees, the pituitary giants, the grossly-pierced and the overly tattooed.

Yup, these days everybody's a winner! Except for one group that has yet to be embraced by our all-inclusive society: the Ugly.

You never see an ugly model. All the fat ones are pretty. You never see a reality show about what it's like to be ugly, never have a date, go through life unmarried, unloved and unheralded in any way.  Face it: when's the last time you approached an ugly person at a party and introduced yourself? Better yet, when's the last time you even saw an ugly person at a party? Probably never, since they don't get invited out much.

Why is that? And when will it change? Do they need to stage a protest? Would anybody show up? Do your part and befriend someone hideous today.