Part One of Two.
Superpowers are something we all dream about – come on, you know all do. Mine, someday, will be flying – and NOT just for the cape.
I can wear that anyway, and you know I will, too, even grocery shopping.
For some people, though, it’s invisibility – a superpower I myself would hate, loving attention the way I do.
The funny thing is, invisibility is remarkably easy to achieve right here and now.
One effective means of invisibility is to be a woman and be overweight. Not grossly so: that will turn heads faster than being a mostly naked Miss Thailand, but not in a good way, since fatness remains an acceptable way to garner yourself a public stoning in today’s society. But being slightly to moderately overweight? That right there will render you immediately invisible to most men and also, oddly, to most women.
If, also, a woman doesn’t take her appearance as seriously as the multi-billion dollar advertising industry does? And, for instance, has the nerve to skip a day or two slathering on costly makeup, age-defying moisturizer (for it is SO not acceptable for women to age further than, say, forty years or so and then leave their homes expecting to be regarded as anything besides mothers, aunts, or other servile creatures – certainly not worthy of receiving attention) and having donned the latest – also costly, and recently replaced – fashions?
She, too, will find herself rendered virtually invisible.
(It’s so cute how you Constant Readers think I’m kidding…)
Try it for yourselves. Pad yourselves out in some sweats – not the cute spandex kind, the kind that are all pilled out and grey, or grayish green, so you look schlumpy and worn. NO makeup, and don’t even bother with a ponytail. No hat to pull it all together, either, and not even some hair gel. You’re definitely going for a bad hair day.
If you typically wear contacts? Don your glasses, even if you’re SO nearsighted you can barely even see your own teeny eyeballs behind the frames.
Watch your superpower in action.
STAY TUNED FOR PART TWO.
