Why Was It Illegal to be “Ugly”?

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    For nearly 100 years it was illegal to be “ugly” in America. Of course, “ugly” wasn’t actually about physical attractiveness, it was a way to criminalize disability and disfigurement and it lead to the rise of the freak show. So how did we put an end to these ridiculous laws? Watch the episode to find out.
    Written and Hosted By: Danielle Bainbridge
    Graphics By: Noelle Smith
    Edited By: Linda Huang and Mike Petrow
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    Works Cited:
    The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public Susan Schweik
    Rachel Adams. “Disability and The Circus .” Published in The History of the Circus in America, ed. Kenneth Ames. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. 2-20.
    Keywords for Disability Studies Edited by Rachel Adams, Benjamin Reiss and David Serlin
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 728

  • @joekim3307
    @joekim3307 5 років тому +882

    Wanted dead or alive
    Crime : *ugly*

    • @NightmareFairy666
      @NightmareFairy666 5 років тому +5

      +360 Scares exactly

    • @myke7521
      @myke7521 5 років тому +3

      suspect: you!

    • @cratoss.4772
      @cratoss.4772 5 років тому +2

      @@myke7521 no u.

    • @JKPieGuy
      @JKPieGuy 5 років тому +4

      The Good.. The Bad.. and The Ugly.

    • @alaa5754
      @alaa5754 5 років тому +4

      i actually laughed so hard

  • @BuzzLiteBeer
    @BuzzLiteBeer 6 років тому +945

    "Ugly" people today still experience vast disadvantages in almost every sphere of life whether it's dating, career, or just how people treat you subconsciously. It might no longer be "illegal" but it still isn't tolerated well.

    • @MrNastydread
      @MrNastydread 6 років тому +56

      Trust me, I know from first hand.

    • @Introvertsan
      @Introvertsan 6 років тому +10

      True

    • @newmle
      @newmle 6 років тому +68

      It is true that attractive people will be put in positions dealing with the public over less attractive people, but that's due to the fact that people are attracted to pretty people. Common sense. Not sure how discriminatory that is...

    • @newmle
      @newmle 6 років тому +51

      Also dating. Sorry, but the whole attractiveness comes in and people are more attracted to Attractive people. Some things we can't help, but some things we can, like I could get better looking by getting my fat ass up and exercising more.

    • @katiekatie6289
      @katiekatie6289 6 років тому +49

      "It is true that attractive people will be put in positions dealing with the public over less attractive people, but that's due to the fact that people are attracted to pretty people. Common sense. Not sure how discriminatory that is..."
      It's discriminatory. You're essentially saying "businesses discriminate against ugly people because the public discriminates against ugly people", or "ugly people are discriminated against because they're discriminated against".

  • @randomgirll3123
    @randomgirll3123 6 років тому +381

    because we romanticize freak shows and circuses and no one really WANTS to remember the shitty things that happened in our past.

    • @isaacbakan1295
      @isaacbakan1295 6 років тому +20

      I actually don't think many of us do romanticize them

    • @hannahc3317
      @hannahc3317 6 років тому +27

      Isaac Bakan The Greatest Showman?

    • @taritangeo4948
      @taritangeo4948 5 років тому +35

      NOTHING good ever happened in circuses, not to animals and not to people.

    • @Cindy99765
      @Cindy99765 5 років тому

      @@isaacbakan1295 yes

    • @MrSophire
      @MrSophire 5 років тому +3

      Actually, many “freaks” were able to make a comfortable living, they will go on the road for a couple of years or so then retire, for many of them, it was the only job they can get since they couldn’t do much so to the deformities.

  • @jackdamenace13
    @jackdamenace13 6 років тому +839

    Guess I would’ve been killed on the spot if I lived 100 years ago. 😆

  • @toffiklubitoffi8561
    @toffiklubitoffi8561 6 років тому +616

    Just *why* ?

    • @randomgirll3123
      @randomgirll3123 6 років тому +55

      because people SUCK.

    • @karina_martinez420
      @karina_martinez420 5 років тому +8

      @@randomgirll3123 i agree

    • @captainhoratiobungleiii7147
      @captainhoratiobungleiii7147 5 років тому +30

      It probably has something to do with the idea that people with disfigurement or disabilities were being punished by god. They had to be shunned or you might get smitten too. Or maybe they thought it was contagious. I'm horrified how late they lasted though, because...science?!

    • @WeatherMondacicci
      @WeatherMondacicci 5 років тому +15

      @@captainhoratiobungleiii7147 My mother's parents were deaf, my grandma was hard of hearing before losing her remaining hearing in a car accident and my grandpa became deaf due to menegitis. My father was a deaf activist that had contact with Gerald R Ford when he was a state representative and they passed some sort of handicap law here that had a part in shaping the ADA. I can't remember the actual name of the bill though. But anyways, during the course of his activism he has heard stories of parents locking their deaf children in closets when they had company over because of the stigma surrounding handicapped children back then, you are right in that there were many, many people that felt that they were punished by doing something wrong that angered God somehow and they were "cursed" with these less than perfect children, back then they didn't really know about DNA or anything like that. Thank God we moved on from that.

    • @captainhoratiobungleiii7147
      @captainhoratiobungleiii7147 5 років тому +6

      @@WeatherMondacicci Absolutely! Onwards and upwards. I always wonder what it must have been like to have a disability at that time, whether you would have believed it of yourself. That sort of thing would really mess with your head.

  • @RebelwheelsNYCShow
    @RebelwheelsNYCShow 5 років тому +110

    as a disabled person these laws are horrifying and examples of systemic ableism. Sadly, the government is still trying to force disabled people into institutions and just this weekend a disability activist group (ADAPT - which seems like you have footage of their earlier protests which was awesome) was out protesting the use of shock "treatment" (read : torture) as in some cases, it is STILL legal to give disabled folks shocks stronger than a police taser. This country has a long long way to go when it comes to social and systemic ableism (aka: discrimination based on disability / or the false idea that disabled people are inferior)

    • @elsakristina2689
      @elsakristina2689 5 років тому +7

      I know we have a long way to go but I hope to goodness that ableism will end during my lifetime. It's disgusting.

    • @RebelwheelsNYCShow
      @RebelwheelsNYCShow 5 років тому +1

      @@elsakristina2689 may this be a thing

    • @DarkBlueSkys
      @DarkBlueSkys 5 років тому +4

      elsa1942 I’m someone with an autoimmune disease and I hear all sorts of ableist crap offhand.

    • @lunawolfheart336
      @lunawolfheart336 5 років тому +2

      yeah its sad on a country suposibly formed on freedoms and equil rights still dosent feel so equil to me weve come a long way but still have a long way to go

    • @FreckleFoxShow
      @FreckleFoxShow 2 роки тому

      Ableism is insidious, never stop fighting.

  • @AliciaNyblade
    @AliciaNyblade 5 років тому +17

    As a person with a disability (visual impairment), it saddens me I didn't know about this before. This needs to be taught in schools, the movement for the rights of people with disabilities. I took A. P. U. S. history in high school and was furious to read that the events before and leading up to the signing of the ADA were squeezed into a few paragraphs, nothing more than a footnote in a larger summary of former President H. W. Bush's career. And meanwhile, the Suffragette and Civil Rights movements got their own chapters in our textbook. That needs to change. Time to draw back the curtain of the freakshow. Time to simply shine a spotlight on people who just happen to have disabilities living their lives. People with disabilities are here, we exist, we want the same things in life as everyone else, and we'll fight like crazy to get them,

  • @mksabourinable
    @mksabourinable 5 років тому +25

    Why the widespread laws aren't known about today? Same reason that a nearly 30yr old law (ADA) is rarely followed. Same reason that no one lists disability when talking about marginalized groups. Same reason that ableism isn't treated as a real discrimination the way racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. are.
    People don't care about the disabled.

  • @joebazooks
    @joebazooks 6 років тому +356

    great channel. glad i stumbled upon it

  • @alicewilloughby4318
    @alicewilloughby4318 6 років тому +48

    This is appalling! I knew there was a lot of harassment and discrimination against disabled and "deformed" people (and sadly, still is, though I hope things are a little better now) but I hadn't known people could actually be ARRESTED for being too different!

    • @itoibo4208
      @itoibo4208 Місяць тому

      it is the same now. being mentally ill, or otherwise partially disabled, means people get no handouts. In my state, you literally have to be blind to get help. People who are raising kids can get help fairly easily, because they do not blame the kids for the problems of the parents, but people without kids? They have to be very severely disabled physically. So, if you have a debilitating problem, you end up homeless and that gets you arrested eventually. Your only hope is to sue the government for social security benefits to live on, and still does not solve the problems that come with your disability.

  • @clairematsunaga1648
    @clairematsunaga1648 4 роки тому +7

    This kind of law still exists in other forms- no loitering, anti-homeless architecture, making it a crime to sleep on park benches, gated communities, preventing affordable housing- all still happening today. Remember a few years ago the building with the ‘poor door’ in NYC.

    • @barbaramoran8690
      @barbaramoran8690 3 роки тому +1

      Where is that place that had the “poor door”.Sounds really strange.How did they determine who had o enter there?

  • @bonnitaclaus2286
    @bonnitaclaus2286 5 років тому +7

    My father was born in 1916. A relative about his age had Sarabel palsy. Her mother and father refused to put her in the institution. She was homeschooled because she had difficulty getting into school. She was talk to a very high degree, probably better than what the public schools had at that time. Going out in public was very difficult, because of the public ridicule. They were often denied access to restaurants and stores. My father’s aunt and uncle refused to hide their little girl. One of the things that really upset the public, when they were allowed to eat at a restaurant, was that they would not feed their daughter. She had to feed herself. Which she did. They worked very hard at teaching her how to feed her self. Where she grew up, she end up getting married, and doing missionary work around the world. She also taught school other children as a teacher. Getting her teaching degree and going to college, seems impossible, but somehow she succeeded. I am so blessed to have been born into such a family. My father and my mother are both very courageous people. I miss them both very much.

    • @fen4613
      @fen4613 5 років тому

      ... it’s called cerebral palsy

  • @pznks
    @pznks 5 років тому +192

    im glad I can be ugly and free in 2018 whew :)

  • @jeimymv8844
    @jeimymv8844 6 років тому +73

    This channel is so underrated ❤️

  • @ikarienator
    @ikarienator 6 років тому +194

    More people should know about this channel!

  • @maple5212
    @maple5212 6 років тому +30

    Thank you for talking about ableism! It's so rampant and often invisible to those not affected.

    • @elsakristina2689
      @elsakristina2689 5 років тому +3

      I hate ableism so much and it's disgusting.

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 3 роки тому

      Yep. It’s how I know about systemic matters - via ableism.
      Experiencing one ism helps with understanding most of the others.

  • @PennyLeFerret
    @PennyLeFerret 5 років тому +69

    These laws aren’t well known because honestly, people still have the view that disabled people should be barely seen and never heard. But absolutely don’t want to admit they would ever hold an opinion like that. People like that ramps are behind a building or that chair lifts are in a back room because they don’t need to think about us. It’s inconvenient, makes them feel bad. And no I’m not saying this is a conscious thought for most. It just is.

  • @berkleypearl2363
    @berkleypearl2363 5 років тому +9

    Now I get why Roosevelt pretended he could walk. He could have been arrested if it was proven that he was deformed

  • @cielphantomhive9725
    @cielphantomhive9725 6 років тому +342

    Who else loves the lively and lovely host of this channel? 😳

  • @ahmedessa1364
    @ahmedessa1364 6 років тому +598

    If Trump lived in that era he would've got arrested

    • @WickedNPC
      @WickedNPC 6 років тому +61

      Nah, these laws only applied to poor people who couldn't defend themselves. Trump is pretty ugly though.

    • @envertheepic
      @envertheepic 6 років тому +15

      DAAAAAAAAAAAANG! Trump just got ROASTED!! 🤣🔥🔥🔥

    • @thebenevolentsun6575
      @thebenevolentsun6575 5 років тому +3

      Original joke

    • @kelsey5418
      @kelsey5418 5 років тому

      Ni shoot on the spot

    • @copieay7265
      @copieay7265 5 років тому

      ahmed essa Look At one of Trump’s At 20 Year Old Photos

  • @nd6112
    @nd6112 6 років тому +61

    *I LOVE HOW MUCH I LEARN FROM THESE VIDEOS!!*

  • @itwasaliens
    @itwasaliens 5 років тому +6

    Really makes you wonder what kinda of horrifying things are excepted today that future people will be horrified by.

  • @BodePassos
    @BodePassos 6 років тому +37

    OMG, it's almost unbelievable that such kind of law DID existed! Really?

    • @nineball039
      @nineball039 6 років тому +9

      Ugly history.

    • @awwskit3929
      @awwskit3929 6 років тому +10

      I’m not shocked at all. There was laws against ppl because of skin color

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 2 роки тому

      The mindset behind these laws is still very present today.

  • @fulkthered
    @fulkthered 6 років тому +65

    More and more we find out the great American values our leaders are talking growing up with are just a load of BS.

    • @roxyroxelle
      @roxyroxelle 5 років тому

      you sure are right.

    • @HelamanGile
      @HelamanGile 5 років тому

      or standards in some ways where very different

    • @DJ_Force
      @DJ_Force 5 років тому +4

      Eh, no. You can't judge previous era's by modern standards. A lot of American values were (and are) very progressive for their time. It's not like the rest of the world was a paradise. If it was, why did so many people risk their lives to come here (and still do).

    • @factcat6847
      @factcat6847 5 років тому +6

      I think that is really a problem in the USA that all the bad parts of the countries history is glossed over just so the fairytale of the "best country ever" can be kept up. I have nothing against a little country pride but ignoring the crime's of ones ancestors means that there can't be any improvement. Those who don't know about history are doomed to repeat it.

  • @maxens_is_here
    @maxens_is_here 6 років тому +7

    Can I just say that I love how thorough you are in your research and how you always give us a small bibliography? It's great!

  • @SuviTuuliAllan
    @SuviTuuliAllan 6 років тому +113

    Differently abled? Okay but I'm disabled.

    • @pbsorigins
      @pbsorigins  6 років тому +54

      Suvi-Tuuli Allan Sorry for the misuse and I apologize for any clumsy wording on my part. I can give a short shout out at the end of next week to address it. Thanks for commenting and engaging with the video!

    • @nineball039
      @nineball039 6 років тому +29

      As an old paraplegic I'm not offended by either term. Disabled is just easier to say.

    • @DrFranklynAnderson
      @DrFranklynAnderson 5 років тому +23

      Preach. I’m fine with disabled, handicapped, lame, gimpy, even crippled, but calling me differently-abled just comes across as so incredibly patronizing. You’d think a generation raised on Harry Potter would have learned by now that fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself.

    • @lumossk3657
      @lumossk3657 5 років тому +3

      Handicapped seems the fairest. Everything else just sounds stupid.

    • @JeantheSecond
      @JeantheSecond 5 років тому +5

      DrFranklynAnderson Well, that’s your opinion. But people in wheelchairs have graduated with honors, engaged in sports, and generally done everything a person can do in their life. There’s nothing DISabled about them. I don’t see any reason to call out someone who is being as respectful as they possibly can. Even if the idea of being differently abled doesn’t fit every person who falls outside what society generally labels “able”. I’m not able to function, but with differences. I’m simply unable to function, but many people function perfectly well without the use of their entire body.

  • @EmmyV2002
    @EmmyV2002 5 років тому +5

    This is so sad and heartbreaking to see people who go through this. This is like shallowness taken to the next level. If I was living in that era, I would've been arrested.

  • @EveryTimeV2
    @EveryTimeV2 5 років тому +7

    Some of these deformities are stuff you'd find in horror films. Just remember that they can't help it. Also beauty goes way back to the romans as a virtue. People just really feel entitled to not having their senses offended.

  • @cassafrasscubby460
    @cassafrasscubby460 5 років тому +31

    Always blows me away that this stuff wasn't that long ago. And sounds very eugenics-like. What a pox upon the earth our species is; our over-breeding and cruelty to each other and every other living creature.

    • @YujiUedaFan
      @YujiUedaFan 5 років тому +5

      Plus Eugenics causes more harmful mutations anyway.

    • @FlutterMouse
      @FlutterMouse 5 років тому +3

      Irony of complaining about eugenics and " over-breeding" in the same comment. Lol ok.

  • @MsJeanneMarie
    @MsJeanneMarie 6 років тому +5

    Thanks for the shout out! Haha love the user name suggestion!! Hope to see the George Washington Carver/Peanut Butter episode come to fruition!

  • @joannadiaz6540
    @joannadiaz6540 5 років тому +5

    That’s messed up I’m from Chicago and I didn’t know they passed an ugly law back then.
    Thank god I wasn’t born in that era or they would’ve arrested me for my looks 😱 lol

  • @dj586858
    @dj586858 6 років тому +6

    Danielle, I love this channel & you are one reason why! I'm a big researcher about everything but with so much false/slanted info out there, how do you make sure you get the right facts? Keep up the great work!

    • @lunayen
      @lunayen 5 років тому +1

      You'll have to use multiple sources. Don't go by internet alone, but read up on books and records you can find in various places.

  • @aresol6487
    @aresol6487 5 років тому +2

    You're so energetic and use so much emotion when talking! Perfect for a channel like this! You seem very talkative and nice :)

  • @miky1339
    @miky1339 5 років тому +4

    when your first reaction(beauty) stat is so low that makes the guards of the town attack you

  • @ensaladadecol
    @ensaladadecol 5 років тому +2

    This is such a great series! Congratulations!

  • @taticatnineland
    @taticatnineland 6 років тому +4

    I’m a bit late, but Liddell pronounced his surname similarly to ‘little’. Lewis Carroll, in fact, wrote a short ditty where Liddell was rhymed with ‘fiddle’ (‘...she plays the first and I the second fiddle’) as further evidence.

  • @dumbnoodle8327
    @dumbnoodle8327 5 років тому +9

    The Greatest Showman is *shaking*

  • @VioletJazz
    @VioletJazz 3 роки тому +1

    So I would have been arrested because I had Autism?! Just because I didn't think or acted like everyone else? Because I'm more prone to emotional meltdowns caused by being overwhelmed?! What the heck! Thank goodness the disability act was passed in the 90s, but I wish it was passed out a lot sooner

  • @WizardToby
    @WizardToby 6 років тому +6

    I'd be breaking that law every day

  • @its.caroline8096
    @its.caroline8096 6 років тому +4

    We have come sort of a long way. We have more oppurtunities for disabled people. Like, at a national cheer competition we got to see a whole cheer team of disabled children go out and perform! It was amazing

  • @ticnatz
    @ticnatz 5 років тому +1

    Even though I'm not ugly, or qualify for any other reason for anyone to discriminate against me.....I wish somebody would arrest me.....

  • @thekingofmoney2000
    @thekingofmoney2000 6 років тому +34

    Well, then half of America should be arrested. 😂

    • @masicbemester
      @masicbemester 5 років тому

      Thanos America

    • @HyLo-rule
      @HyLo-rule 5 років тому +1

      actually most Americans are very pretty and attractive due to genetics and standards

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 5 років тому +2

      More like 80% of the world. Or maybe 100%, since we all have different tastes. Everyone is ugly to someone.

    • @abowlofsalad8812
      @abowlofsalad8812 5 років тому

      You mean 90%

    • @berlinwall6674
      @berlinwall6674 5 років тому +1

      That's not really how it works. It's not like half the population is attractive and the other half is not. We have average which the majority fall into. Then, we have standard deviations from the average (leaning more toward beautiful and the other deviation is leaning towards ugly) however if they fall into the normal standard deviation, they wouldn't be considered ugly by most. It's only when they're looks are so unfortunate to the point of not being close to the standard deviation that they would be seen as ugly by the majority.

  • @PunkHerr
    @PunkHerr 6 років тому +23

    Are/were there similar laws in other countries?

    • @kelsey5418
      @kelsey5418 5 років тому +1

      That's what i want too know too

    • @d.m.173
      @d.m.173 5 років тому

      of course but why don't you go research and learn :)

  • @davidshi451
    @davidshi451 6 років тому +2

    Thanks for the shout out, and thanks for pronouncing my last name correctly!

  • @BaldingClamydia
    @BaldingClamydia 6 років тому +24

    I love your videos! I'm tired of watching educational videos that sound like the narrators are reading straight from a script. I understand notes are needed, but this isn't a fourth grade book report, be expressive! Thanks for an interesting and well-presented channel. :D

  • @MiriamTheGreat
    @MiriamTheGreat 10 місяців тому +1

    Oh hell… in Broward County FL since getting hit by a tractor-trailer in 2017, I’ve received no end of harassment and even intimidation from randos, coworkers, cops, Evangelical clergy, etc, just for having physical disabilities.
    Don’t act like this is a thing if the past.

  • @belle7342
    @belle7342 5 років тому +1

    I'm always learning something new from this channel!

  • @NoName-ze4qn
    @NoName-ze4qn 5 років тому +4

    That's how Lovecraft's works came into being...

  • @priscillabalqis5539
    @priscillabalqis5539 2 роки тому +1

    I like your videos, very informative about discriminations! Thank you

  • @victoriaturner6854
    @victoriaturner6854 2 роки тому +1

    I would appreciate the term disabled being used over "differently abled", since disabled isn't a bad word. However, I love the information given. Thank you for sharing < 3

    • @burner555
      @burner555 6 місяців тому

      "differently abled" + "disabled" = "diffabled"

  • @romecottrell4558
    @romecottrell4558 2 роки тому +1

    Wow! That's was shocking 😳. I never knew this . I'm happy 😊 that those ridiculous laws don't prevent people today from being themselves.

  • @kittycat0876
    @kittycat0876 5 років тому +8

    It doesn’t provide equal rights to gainful employment for disabled people today. It’s legal to pay no more than $2.59

    • @wmdkitty
      @wmdkitty 5 років тому +1

      To prevent the disabled person from losing important benefits like medical coverage. It's not "fair", but it's a lot better than leaving ppl without meds and medical supplies they need to function because they make a few dollars "too much" to qualify for state coverage.

    • @kittycat0876
      @kittycat0876 5 років тому

      @@wmdkitty here in California section 8 has failed

  • @dlaity107
    @dlaity107 5 років тому +40

    While I normally love your stuff, as a disabled person, I have to ask: please, PLEASE, *PLEASE* would you consider not using the euphemism "differently abled".
    I'm sure you weren't meaning to be, but that word is reductionist & extremely ableist. It suggests that to be a disabled person is somehow bad or wrong & feeds the wrong ideology we end up having to fight every day.
    Thanks for your time.

    • @breebell468
      @breebell468 5 років тому

      +

    • @dlaity107
      @dlaity107 5 років тому +7

      @@nala3055 apologies for the delay. Only seen this now. "Differently abled" implies a scaled value and suggests that those of us who are not in possession of conventional bodies are 'less than'. Especially when the world tends, for the most part to default to the medical model to begin with, it's one extra layer of infantilising & porcelain handling and the vast majority of us get extremely offended/disgusted/saddened to hear it. Particularly from such normally excellent & sensitive quarters.
      'Disabled', most especially in the context of a social-based world, describes accurately, a body which works a different way, vs 'differently able' which was foist on us by people in conventional bodies because of a misplaced belief that it is somehow essential to state that we can be skilled & competent while simultaneously inhabiting a body that reacts another way in the context of the physical world. Whereas, since we're not cartoons, but fully formed, equal people, we also prefer the dignity of walking through our day without having to stress verbally & in writing, that we can do stuff too.
      There's an overwhelming amount out there on the subject, but I would recommend researching the 'social model' as a good starting point.
      Hope this helps!

    • @elsakristina2689
      @elsakristina2689 5 років тому

      Ableism is awful and I can't wait for whenever it's gone.

    • @bolasblancas420
      @bolasblancas420 5 років тому +2

      Thank you. You’ve taught me something I didn’t know/understand.

    • @cassandrabelyeu2419
      @cassandrabelyeu2419 5 років тому +7

      @@dlaity107 I'm differently abled, and there are multiple subcultures and categories of medical conditions which enable a person to do something that a person without that condition is not able to do/does not do as naturally.
      Mine is a neurological difference, but I'm both abled to do some things, and disabled from doing some other things by the difference.
      So that is the term I prefer.

  • @vincegay986
    @vincegay986 3 роки тому +1

    There are still anti-homeless sweeps, vagrancy laws, and laws against sleeping outdoors, along with the movement of services to parts of cities that visitors and the “respectable” aren’t likely to see.

  • @elizabethspawn8466
    @elizabethspawn8466 6 років тому +1

    I really love your channel and content. Too bad I didn’t discover it during summer vacation.

  • @rentropy6199
    @rentropy6199 5 років тому +6

    Welp. I would’ve gone to jail.

  • @shibolinemress8913
    @shibolinemress8913 3 роки тому +1

    I live in a city where many public buildings, especially downtown, fall under a heritage act that prevents them from being torn down or modernised, in order to preserve the historical ambience of the area. While this may have its merits, it also prevents the building owners from adding on modern amenities for the disabled, like wider hallways, lifts, ramps, automatic doors, special toilet facilities, etc. It's not like the Ugly Laws, of course, but still a great hindrance. Sadly I rarely thought about this till I became affected myself.

  • @WateverWatever04
    @WateverWatever04 6 років тому +3

    7:26 "Hoop Jeanne It Is" made me cry with laughter

  • @PH7018c
    @PH7018c 5 років тому +2

    That is the infamous law!.. to "honor" it a puertorican folklore singer*, Ramito, made a song about it in the 70's.
    It became an iconic song for latinamericans when El Gran Combo (puerto rico) made it a salsa song in the 70's too..
    The song "La eliminacion de los feos" became a classic of salsa rithm.
    The song was so popular that a series of "protesting" songs came after that one..
    La eliminacion de los feos (Ramito, and el gran combo)
    La protesta de los feos (Johnny Ventura)...
    No hay cama pa tanta gente.. and others.
    *the original song was from the 50's by Chuito de Bayamón.
    Puerto Rico was the place where many drugs/medical experiments were tested on humans, and animals (introduced monkeys and other animals.)

  • @tip0019
    @tip0019 6 років тому +19

    She is so hug-gable :D

  • @sweety4271984
    @sweety4271984 5 років тому

    Impressed with this channel. You're a great speaker.

  • @ricklogan7889
    @ricklogan7889 5 років тому

    I'm a guy, & I'd be tempted to wear some of your patterns if I could figure out where to get them. I really needed this information, as these "laws" would apply to me. You can see the legacy of these laws in old horror movies. Thank You so much~!!!

  • @antlerriverpress788
    @antlerriverpress788 5 років тому +1

    Id love for you to do one on the residential school system. Here in canada the last one closed in 1994 which isn't that long ago.

  • @jellyrcw12
    @jellyrcw12 5 років тому +1

    So fascinating! I had no idea that this was a part of American history

  • @joekim3307
    @joekim3307 5 років тому +1

    Did anyone else notice that San Francisco passed an ugly law a few weeks before , and then they just arrested Martin Oates for the rest of his life but he was just visiting San Francisco. God damn that’s a shitty vacation .

  • @aamir1290
    @aamir1290 6 років тому +3

    I love this channel!

  • @FifthAveAtFive
    @FifthAveAtFive 3 роки тому

    One or the things that bothers (and impacts) me is that religious organizations are exempt from the ADA. It’s upsetting that I could be denied entry to a church and thus the Eucharist (I’m Catholic) because I have a service dog to mitigate my disability symptoms.

  • @onenessesor9017
    @onenessesor9017 5 років тому +1

    Now I know what "The Greatest Showman" is about...

  • @Mo-pm2oi
    @Mo-pm2oi 5 років тому

    Well this was refreshing to watch.
    Smiled all the way from beginning to end.
    Pretty talented teacher, I’d say.
    Handsome too

  • @Fndjwkwjrbrbrwjqj
    @Fndjwkwjrbrbrwjqj 6 років тому +2

    My girl coming back 💓💓💓

  • @bluedancelilly
    @bluedancelilly 5 років тому +1

    Danielle, you say "freak shows" began as a way for "ugly" people to be allowed in public after ugly laws began and the first ugly law was in 1867 in SF. But freak shows began decades before that (i.e. PT Barnum began freak shows in the 1840s long before official ugly laws.) Can you clarify?

    • @1whitkat
      @1whitkat 5 років тому

      She was wrong. While freak shows did allow ugly people access to the public, they began far earlier than the laws.

  • @milascave2
    @milascave2 5 років тому +1

    We have to be careful that anti-homeless laws do not replicate this problem, forcing the homeless into huge, jail-like mega-shelters whether they want to go into them or not, and otherwise making making their lives virtually unlivable by making it illegal to do things that it is simply impossible for an unhoused human not to do, such as sleeping in public or serving free food in public without an unobtainable permit. We are not as far from the ugly laws as we would like to think, as many people feel that the rights of people not to see unpleasant realities is greater than the rights of people living those unpleasant realities to survive.
    (Also, people are told to leave where they are and go into shelters when there is no space in them, and no place where they are permitted to go.)

  • @daniterry4922
    @daniterry4922 2 роки тому

    This gives so much more context to the short story, “The Yellow Wallpaper”😮

  • @alfsleftnut9224
    @alfsleftnut9224 10 місяців тому

    As an ugly person I fear that our society is moving back towards having these laws. I fear going out in public due to the attitudes people hold towards the ugly. I fear physical assult, I fear offending people because of how I look.

  • @carringtonmiles4489
    @carringtonmiles4489 6 років тому +2

    Love your channel. Even if you're making a video of a serial killer your always in good spirits.lol

  • @Chelsea-dq9og
    @Chelsea-dq9og 5 років тому +1

    what the heck? i've lived in NE all my life and nobody talked about this in my highschool history class.

  • @Dayglodaydreams
    @Dayglodaydreams 5 років тому +1

    Have disability rights as a general history, or a few specific historical videos been covered yet?

  • @greengreengreen5132
    @greengreengreen5132 7 місяців тому

    What constitutes “ugly” and how do you measure that?

  • @gloriasmom2045
    @gloriasmom2045 5 років тому

    Good research work, Sis!

  • @MJ-cq6gz
    @MJ-cq6gz 6 років тому +3

    Were eugenics or phrenology ever given as justification for creating these laws?

    • @callmewaves1160
      @callmewaves1160 5 років тому +1

      Of course not. They thought Nikola Tesla was crazy for believing in Eugenics.
      Just comes down to plain old intollerance.

  • @bellakonrad5952
    @bellakonrad5952 5 років тому

    what were the exact definitions used in the laws? like what constituted "ugly" or "disfigured" legally

  • @lolno3332
    @lolno3332 5 років тому

    The strangeness/weirdness and for being messed up of the law

  • @davidsummers4820
    @davidsummers4820 6 років тому +2

    Cool video. But like other commenters, I 'm somewhat confused by the terminology. Why is it "differently abled" but "disability rights"?

    • @kittling5427
      @kittling5427 6 років тому +4

      Speaking as a disable person from the UK there preferred term here is 'disabled' - most of use don't like the use of euphemisms about disability as much of it is rooted in the discomfort the able community have about disability - hope that's some help :)

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 6 років тому +2

      Some (not all: see Kittling's comment) disabled people want to emphasize the positive, that although they may be "disabled" as to the "normal" way to do things, they have found alternative ways to do anything they really want to do, hence they consider themselves not "disabled" or "unable" but able to do things "differently," hence "differently abled." I would refer to someone as they refer to themselves, since it's a matter of personal taste.

    • @kittling5427
      @kittling5427 6 років тому +2

      I can't speak for the US but here in the UK many of us who use the term disabled are not referring to our bodies but rather to the built environment & social constructs that disable us. (eg its not the wheelchair that the problem its the steeps, lack of drop curbs, stairs, or the attitude of others )

    • @allanrichardson1468
      @allanrichardson1468 6 років тому +1

      Kittling We have a Federal law here called the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA for short) since 1990 which requires public buildings to make “reasonable” cost accommodations for physical limitations, but not all buildings can be adapted at “reasonable” cost.
      In our neighboring state of Georgia, as in Florida where I live, there is an election for Congress and statewide offices coming up Tuesday 6th of November, and both states are electing a governor (like a Canadian provincial premiere).
      In one rural and mostly black county (~= shire), 7 of the buildings to be used as voting locations have still not been upgraded to meet the ADA standards (since 1990!) but are in use for other purposes. The County Commission had considered NOT opening those locations for voting, leaving only TWO polling places for the county.
      It so happens that the race for governor is between a Republican, currently the Secretary of State (at the state level, that would be the state chief of election procedures), Brian Kemp, and a Democrat, Stacey Abrams, hoping to be the FIRST BLACK WOMAN governor of ANY state. Naturally the black voters in Georgia will vote for her, including those in this county.
      If the closing had not been stopped by public objections, most of those black Democratic voters would not be able to vote, since most are too poor to have a (reliable) car and take a weekday off from work (and Election Day is not a holiday), and this would take thousands of votes away from Abrams,
      Does this sound like a coincidence to you? I’ll sell you a bridge over the Hudson River in New York!

    • @t.vinters3128
      @t.vinters3128 6 років тому

      There's no concensus on what is the most "appropriate" terminology. Different people have different ideas and sensitivities.

  • @LaceworkDreams
    @LaceworkDreams 5 років тому

    good to see sources

  • @roseyvision
    @roseyvision 9 місяців тому

    I would TOTALLY be locked up!

  • @blmackenzie
    @blmackenzie 5 років тому +1

    I really like the speaker’s voice!

  • @bonniwanamaker6296
    @bonniwanamaker6296 5 років тому

    I love this channel, I always learn something new.

  • @1015SaturdayNight
    @1015SaturdayNight 3 роки тому

    You're an awesome teacher!

  • @richardburt9812
    @richardburt9812 6 років тому

    There were many freak show performers did not want their freak shows to be closed down, as they eventually were. Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
    by Robert Bogdan 1990

  • @CrystalMouse1
    @CrystalMouse1 2 роки тому

    This still happens today but in more sneaky ways. Have you seen anyone in a wheelchair or with a disfigurement working in retail, or as a receptionist, desk clerk or the like? Yet these are often the only available jobs for the disabled because often we require a lot of care which takes our college funds. So higher education is out of our reach. So what's left? Plus, the ADA has a loophole where if the disabled individual is under educated, they won't be able to get the job. We have to be ULTRA impressive to compete with teenagers looking for hire. On top of that, disabled people require frequent medical appointments, breaks and flexibility from their employers which can seem like an advantage and a special privilege rather than accommodation. We just can't win. So we remain on crappy benefits that can't pay rent. Many of us are homeless or living with whoever will take us in. Often they become resentful and abusive. Please push for the end of the loophole of the ADA and higher disability checks for those of us too ugly to work in 2022

  • @berlinwall6674
    @berlinwall6674 5 років тому +1

    Ugly law in 1974........? Why don't they take these outdated laws out

  • @neropatti1504
    @neropatti1504 6 років тому +17

    A great example of something that used to be illegal but is only frowned upon nowadays. Like pot smokers are going to be in the future. Greetings from Finland!

    • @bolasblancas420
      @bolasblancas420 5 років тому +2

      I 100% agree with you and taxed. don’t forget those sweet sweet monies that pay for public projects. ahhhhh!... money.

    • @extradeluxe141
      @extradeluxe141 5 років тому

      Do European countries also treat weed as an illegal substance. I ask because our country made it illegal as part of a scare campaign.

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 5 років тому

      Oh dear.... You should come to America sometime. If you can avoid the crazies and cops who shoot people for no reason, marijuana use is pretty widespread and out in the open. Most states have at least medically legal bud.

    • @Tsumami__
      @Tsumami__ 5 років тому

      @@extradeluxe141 illegal but certain countries don't harass people who keep it for personal use in their home. Some are zero friggin tolerance.

  • @joejohn524
    @joejohn524 5 років тому +1

    Because some people are different, they are called ugly... wow 😑

  • @ben_jamin4529
    @ben_jamin4529 5 років тому +1

    **Steps out my home**🚨🚨 📢👮👮👮👮📢🚨🚨

  • @AlexanderLayko
    @AlexanderLayko Рік тому +1

    Why didn't the people arrested under the historic ugly laws that existed from 1867-1974 just have confidence if they didn't want to be arrested for being ugly? If only they would've believed in themselves and didn't internalize their insecurities! People could see their insecurity on their face! They were ugly on the inside! If only they would've had better body language!

  • @bpayne3602
    @bpayne3602 5 років тому

    Love your videos keep em coming

  • @mary-amablankson6387
    @mary-amablankson6387 5 років тому

    The real monsters (those with evil hearts) have existed since the beginning of time. Can you just imagine what these people were wrongly subjected to??

  • @ngantnier
    @ngantnier 6 років тому

    So much injustice :(. Side note, is that a heaxapodal human? If so that's very interesting, kind of like snakes have repetitions of their vertebrae/ribs.

  • @Hugo-ey3wc
    @Hugo-ey3wc 3 роки тому +3

    If this were still around i would be doing 25 to life 😂😂😂

  • @1arualblack1
    @1arualblack1 5 років тому +2

    Curiosity Stream has viruses?!? Oh, and destruction and ok it's a title.