Physiognomy and Subconscious Associations

[tealin]

Look at these faces ... try as hard as you can to just look at the facial features and ignore politics, if you can:



I think this is why I always got the impression that Stephen Harper (centre, Canadian Prime Minister-elect) was a smarmy leerer.

Comments

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

???

Well, they were all randy little buggers, weren't they?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Aside from that, silly. ; ) Facial feature – the first two's eyes, especially.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

LOLOLOL!!! There's a picture of me next to the definition of "Silly" in the Oxford English Dictionary! XD I can't help it, it's congenital.

But YEAH! It's because they're all of Irish descent.


They're eyes are all baggy, like if they hadn't slept in years. Well, I think we can all attest to what Billy and Jack were diong to all hours of the night in the oval office, but Pandora's Box Bucket-O-Fun has already been opened, so I'll stop here! XP

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

Well, lucky me! I don't know too much about their politics, so the faces is all I have to jugde by.

JFK looks like a decent guy, responsible, wants to do whats good, but not too bright (in that picture).

The guy in the middle looks very much like one of our own politicians, who I always thought looked smarmy too. Economist-type fellow, slightly boring and a bit arrogant.

Clinton looks amazingly honest and sincere for a politician. And allthough we know now that he wasn't always honest, that must have been what the voters saw in him when they elected him. (Most Norwegians miss Clinton. The relationship between the US and Norway was very strong and uncomplicated during those years.)

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Most people outside the US, it seems, miss Clinton. I don't know about inside the US because the only people I knew with an opinion on the matter were the ones counting down the days till he was out of office.

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Add this Yank to that list >.

Me too

[(Anonymous)]

Proud to be a member of that club.
A²

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

You're not only a member – you're also the president!

Well, not president, necessarily ... more Secretary In Charge of Yelling at the Television.

[veronikamg.livejournal.com]

You've lived in Canada for a few years now, right? If so I don't expect you to know about the slight diplomatic differences between the USA and Norway these past few years. In fact, I hope people in Canada - and the rest of the World - don't. It started with 9/11, when the Bush administration noticed that Norway had not signed the list of countries that would support the US in the fight agains terrorism. The reason was simply that we didn't have a functioning government during those days. Our election had been on the 10th, the results were not at all clear, and it took some time to figure out who had the authority to put us formally on the supporter list. It did not help that Norway has a reputation for being leftist.

Over the past four year we've had to appologize to the US government on several occations, and all that time we had a conservative government. Now we have a socialist one again, a coallision, and the latest chapter was when one of our ministers managed to squeek out that we ought to boicot Israel (her party - which is not big - supports Palistine). Goodness grief! It was all they talked about in the news for the next two weeks. (And we did appologize to both Israel and the US.)

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Apology Accepted

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

There have been many of the same 'diplomatic differences' between Canada and the US ... not in specifics, but generally the same sort of growing tension. We didn't earn many points when we decided against going to Iraq, for example.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Republicans in general think Clinton is the spawn of Satan.

Democrats in general, on the other hand, absolutely adore him and think George W. Bush is the spawn of Satan.

I don't subscribe to either party, so I really don't have an opinion.

[mimeofquidditch.livejournal.com]

ignoring the politics, Clinton looks like a nice person. he's got sympathetic eyes.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a paper about politics and sexuality -- my theory, which was totally cracked and I didn't even believe it, was that Western society has a very specific subconscious view of what a leader should be. I drew from pop culture (Independence Day, My Fellow Americans, a few others) to build this cultural view of an alienated, virile male as the ideal president.

I used this to prove that Bill Clinton was the best president ever because he successfully tapped into that collective view of what a president ought to be. And if he was with the majority view on that, odds were he'd be a good representative of majority interests the rest of the time.

Um, which is all a way of saying that men who leer lewdly are probably more likely to become president or PM, I think. :D

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Hm. And I do suppose two American moderate democrats could equal a Canadian conservative...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Aw, c'mon, I liked the comment you made yesterday about Harper looking like Clinton and Kennedy's love child. : )

Harper actually started out as being about as far right as a legitimate Canadian politician can get – approximately a moderate Republican, by American standards. Dunno if he's actually gravitated more centre since the two conservative parties merged, or if it was just campaign rhetoric. We'll see.

[ubiquitouspitt.livejournal.com]

Though, disturbingly enough, I find the idea of a Kennedy-Clinton love affair far more palatable than the affairs they had with the women they selected... Urgh.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

omg. Kenny and Clinton had a kid and he now is prime minister of Canada O_O.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

....that would be.. "Kennedy". 'Kenny' makes for a whooole different story.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

BWAHAAA! Fabulous.

I'm glad the similarity is visible to more than just Ubiquitouspitt and I; I was starting to worry we were both delusional. Maybe it's an art thang.

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

it's true man.. he's totally sporting facial features simliar to both guys xD

[(Anonymous)]

That Kenny/Clinton pic is reeeeeeeally funny, and no, you guys aren't alone in seeing similarities, although I think that, based on this particular picture alone, Steven Harper looks like the smarmiest of the trio, with those eyes and that crooked little smile of his. But what do I know?
---DisneyBoy

[fryingpanofdoom.livejournal.com]

Maybe Captain Swing's (Night Watch) craniometrics has a point? Or is it that politicians are inevitably crooked?

[fordanglia.livejournal.com]

Aw, I love Clinton. I was hoping to get tickets to see in for my birthday, but they sold out in ten seconds.