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Easily the most recognizable aspect of [[Daria Morgendorffer]]'s persona, her manstopper glasses are heavy black eyeglasses with large, round lenses that easily cover a notable portion of her face. (The term was first used by [[Brother Grimace]].)
 
==In the show==
Her prescription has never been revealed in canon. However, as a number of episodes have shown (most notably "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]"), Daria has quite poor eyesight and needs her glasses to function normally, as she kept bumping into classmates when pretending to wear her contacts and had to be guided at times by [[Jane Lane]]. Even with her glasses on she has visual problems, once nearly running a dog over while driving because she had poor peripheral vision ("Through a Lens Darkly").▼
 
▲HerDaria's prescription has never been revealed in canon. However, as a number of episodes have shown (most notably "[[Through a Lens Darkly]]"), Daria has quite poor eyesight and needs her glasses to function normally, as she kept bumping into classmates when pretending to wear her contacts and had to be guided at times by [[Jane Lane]]. Even with her glasses on she has visual problems, once nearly running a dog over while driving because she had poor peripheral vision ("Through a Lens Darkly").
A "future-ego" shot at the end of "[[Is It College Yet?]]" shows her as an adult wearing glasses, though more stylish than the manstopper sort, as does her imagined future self in "[[Write Where It Hurts]]". Her other imagined future self in "[[Lane Miserables]]" gives her larger, square glasses. "Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret", created and set after "College, shows her with the same glasses that she had in the series.▼
 
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"[[Daria Morgendorffer's Greatest Retail Regret]]", created and set after "College", shows an adult Daria wearing the same glasses that she had in the series. "[[Catching Up With The Daria Gang]]", created even later, showed a mid-30s Daria wearing chunk square glasses, not that far off from her "Lane Miserables" future. Evidently, adult Daria isn't too interested in fashion (a shock I know).
 
"[[Through a Lens Darkly]]" presented the most detailed discussion of Daria's glasses and what they mean to her. Jane Lane said it best in a discussion with her amiga:
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*Jane: The glasses are you. They're symbolic of the whole Daria thing. [imitates Daria] "I wear glasses and I'm not going to apologize for it."
 
[[Amy Barksdale]], often taken to be similar to an older Daria, had no problem with replacing her "manstopper glasses" with contacts, but Daria found contacts too troublesome (and painful) to use. Amy has also kept her glasses and sometimes dons them for visual effect (in "[[I Don't]]" to bond with Daria).
 
In "Through a Lens", [[Helen Morgendorffer|Helen]] does make it clear she thinks Daria will get on better socially without glasses.
 
==Fandom Reactions==
FansUnderstandably, many fans of Daria wear glasses. Fans have sometimes commented about their own glasses (or lack of same). [[Kara Wild]] (she who gave Quinn Morgendorffer eyeglasses in her [[Driven Wild Universe]] cycle) began one such thread on PPMB, which is worth reading for the various reactions people have to glasses. [[Medea42]] initiated another such thread on [[PPMB]], and [[Brandon League]] began a like thread more recently, both also worth a look.
 
A recurring fandom term is "Manstopper Glasses", first coined by [[Brother Grimace]]. Fans who use the term argue that Daria is deliberately dressing to put up an unapproachable, 'unattractive' front - on assumption she's conventionally attractive ala Quinn and is trying to hide it - and the unfashionably severe glasses are an attempt to ward men off.
 
==Merchandise==
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==External Links==
* [https://www.outpost-daria-reborn.info/ts_ep301.html Transcript of "Through A Lens Darkly"] at Outpost Daria Reborn
* [http://dariablog2.blogspot.com/2008/03/glasses-are-you.html The Glasses Are You] at Daria Fandom Blog II
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26843 Iron Chef: Glasses No More] at PPMB
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