remember back in the day when getting minor cosmetic surgery was frowned upon, now it's so commonplace nobody bats an eyelid at breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, liposculpture.. etc
your skin happens to be the biggest organ your body has, we like to keep ourselves on a certain level of what we consider acceptable to us (and although some deny it, those ideals are affected by where we live and our *familiars* lol = think blade)
when does acceptable by societal standards become *extreme*?
we see white people fake tanning themselves to death and that's *ok*, we see black celebrities who over the years have become less black *visually* and then we see michael jackson... no comment
did you know:
he's the *ONLY* depigmented person EVER who ended up looking so extreme, this is because as a focus point people see his overuse of cosmetic surgery then can't differentiate between his colour (or lack of) and his actual features
we see two basic arguments, the pros and the haters:
for those that hate, stop and consider those with vitiligo who are given depigmentation as an option, are they *freaks*?
basically, this boils down to awareness.
as with cosmetic surgery, people need broaden their horizons and do some research instead of making juvenile assumptions about why a person would opt to remove most the melanin from their skin with the aid of a chemical
another argument geared towards the haters is the issue of albinism, are they freaks because they're *naturally* pale
if you answered *yes* continue to live your closed minded biggot filled life filled with envy/hate
depigmentation isn't a dirty word rather racism is, in 2007 you'd think we'd have evolved from ignorance by now, evidently not.
