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?

[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.)

[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...

[buttfacemakani.livejournal.com]

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

[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.