Columnist’s remarks about beauty
offensive
I just wanted to let you know that Doug Lief’s column
“Stop being ashamed of your offensive face” (Viewpoint,
April 2) is the most inane, disgusting, and offensive piece of
writing I have ever read in your newspaper. The comments Lief makes
regarding beauty are narrow-minded and insensitive. People like
Lief intensify many peoples’ insecurities and actually cause
what he calls “Appearance Deficit Disorder.”
Furthermore, after insulting “ugly” people repeatedly
he goes on to call himself a “9.4 Antonio Banderas.”
Disgusting.
More specifically, I was particularly bothered when he
apparently tried to imagine the least beautiful thing possible and
came up with “a 300-pound Vietnamese girl.” I think
Lief owes an apology to all 300-pound people and all Vietnamese
people.
Lief’s lack of compassion for all humans is despicable.
Shame on you for printing this nonsense.
Michael Fleishman Third-year Geophysics