Word: lookism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more deserving of punishment. Not every unfairness derives from the violation of a right. Robert Nagel, professor of law at the University of Colorado, warns, "The rights makers are like children with toys, so delighted and entranced by them they want more and more, heedless of the consequences." Consider lookism, as the practice of preferring the pretty over the plain is called in rights jurisprudence. In the Harvard Law Review, Adam Cohen of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that ugly people need to be protected against discrimination too. Cohen says, "People don't realize how pervasive the preference...
...Rabelais -- those rosy-brown, squashed-flat, gross and scarily funny "Corps de Dames" that form such a spectacular counterpart to the women De Kooning was painting on the other side of the Atlantic at about the same time. But no moral nitpicker today could accuse Dubuffet of ageism or lookism...
THIS MOVEMENT has promoted a litany of fragmenting "isms"-from bilingualism to lookism. In most cases these campaigns for particular rights are expressions of genuine suffering. These are not bogus concerns. But the cumulative effect has been to divide Americans into smaller and smaller interest groups...
...very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
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