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.

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[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