Do Not Cut Off Your Nose To Spite Your Face- My Personal Story
The idiom “Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face” dates back to the Abbess of Colding Priorny in the 9th century, who allegedly commanded her nuns to cut off their noses to make themselves unappealing to invading Viking raiders to avoid being violated. What a ghastly extreme way to fend off Viking warriors stealing their chastity. I looked up the origins of this saying; these striking scenes of young nuns following the extremely cruel guidance of their mother superior, with bright red blood pouring down their pure, pretty, cream-colored faces, helped me see why Great Spirit asked me to expound on this very idiom today. Hopefully, my blog will illuminate for you how embedded prejudices in our North American culture related to physical appearance, what the ideal visual features are considered beautiful in the USA dating back to the 1970s, my reference point, may have affected countless decisions in many lives to engage in extreme plastic surgery, black market cose...