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Alright. I have glasses. Not just any glasses though. These glasses. As you can see, I look damn good in them. Whenever people haven't seen me in them before, though, it always starts with the question "Do you need glasses?", followed by my response, "No, they're strictly for fashion.", then finally, almost always barked back at with "If you don't need glasses, you shouldn't be using them!" In about 1/5 cases, the concern is that they'll damage my eyes. Which would be true were it not for the fact that any decent optometrist will take out the shitty display lenses and replace them with lenses that have no magnification. Arguing the point after acknowledging this acknowledges that you must never look through a window. The remaining 4/5 cases are followed by the initial eye damage argument, followed by this lovely arguement: "If you don't suffer any kind of visual disability, you shouldn't be wearing them!" This argument is a special kind of bullshit because using the same logic: You may not wear denim jeans unless you are an 1850's Californian Gold Rush minerYou may not wear flannel shirts unless you are a 16th Century Welsh farmerYou may not wear gauges unless you are an Ancient Egyptian during the dynasties of the New KingdomHonestly, fuck these people. I think it's one thing to feign concern, it's another to get on your high horse over a chunk of plastic. What about you guys? How do you feel about form over function in fashion?