VISIBILITY Magazine Issue 01. (May 2016) | Page 42

You Wouldn’t Be so Ugly If You Would Just Become a Biblical Figure Marissa Cohen If you are really looking to cure all that ugliness you should just become a biblical figure. You are unattractive for a woman, but you are just below average for someone born before the invention of modern hygiene. Quit complaining, rewind time, and do something semi¬-magical seeming. Be revered as a person of large importance in the Judeo-Christian scriptures. You are so, so lazy. Janice. Biblical figures are remembered throughout history as pretty white people with cherub-like faces that almost always lean to one side. Being a pretty white person can get you anywhere in this world, regardless of which direction your face almost always leans. Maybe you do not wish to look like a fat baby angel. Surely you must admit that supernatural childhood obesity is preferable to how you look now, Janice. You will not look sort of like a painting. You will be a painting. Because you will be prominent in biblical times when photography was not invented. Lucky for you. As you morph into the type of deity that would be loved and adored by hordes of people for centuries to come, stay true to yourself. Be the real you as long as the real you can succeed in gaining an adoring following of human sheep. Cult followings are the ultimate confidence boosters, especially when they are from biblical times and therefore too stupid to see right through you. Jesus turned water into wine. You should easily turn into a somewhat decent-looking biblical figure. Put a little effort into your showmanship, Janice, for once in your physically disgusting life. No offense. Becoming a biblical figure is really not that hard. If you have the energy to drag your grotesque body out of bed each morning, looking the way you do, then you can certainly manage to gather a medium-sized following in the biblical era. It takes a lot of confidence to show up in public with those flabby cheeks, those dry rat eyes. I commend you, Janice. Now put that same confidence to something greater than thou. Become a biblical figure. 42