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OF COURSE YOU “SEE” COLOR:
YOU SEE IT UNTIL YOU DON’T
We have all heard the declaration, “I just don’t see color.” We have all dismissed it as ridiculous. Of course we see color. There are colors we prefer to wear. We see the difference between blondes and brunettes, and we know who has more fun. We know that red cars are hot and sexy, which is why you don’t generally see (or at least I haven’t) cherry-red minivans. When someone’s skin is different than yours, you know it without prompting. Color is a salient characteristic. Color matters. You see it until you don’t.
My attorney told me never to make my opponent’s argument, but I’m kinda going to do that.
I had a good friend in college who would objectively be called homely. By agreed-upon standards of beauty, she didn’t have a pretty face. Her features were blobby. She had short hair that was dull red and dull brown simultaneously, and it looked like roof thatching on top of a face.
She had an unfortunate shape; narrow, narrow shoulders, and her middle was a doughnut rather than the pinch of an hourglass. Looks are traitors. Humans judge books by their covers, so many beautiful stories go…
