Mirrorless Monday? I'm waiting for Trouserless Thursday...

One of the things about working on a college campus is that you are frequently assaulted with the kind of warm, fuzzy, muddle-headed liberal thinking that seems to inflict most of the inhabitants of said campus. I encountered one of the odder examples of this as I walked into a basement bathroom mid-afternoon to expel some of the three cups or so of coffee that it takes to get me through working at said college and discovered that in an effort to boost the self-esteem of those seeking to relieve themselves, someone had instituted "Mirrorless Monday" and covered up the mirrors with paper adorned with self-esteem boosting proclamations.

Of course, the papered-over mirrors don't change the fact that people will still judge you if you have a booger hanging from your nose or a piece of lettuce in your teeth - they just remove the opportunity for you to know about it and correct it. In the real world, people do judge on appearance, and in the real world appearance does send certain signals - the way you choose to dress, the effort you put into diet and exercise, ect - are reflected in your physical appearance, and they send very useful signals to other people about you.