tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post8839879003131058913..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Miley Cyrus explains that youngsters' kabuki faces stem from autismagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-84491425240100797492013-09-30T20:45:53.104-04:002013-09-30T20:45:53.104-04:00"My first thoughts are high crime in the 1980..."My first thoughts are high crime in the 1980s and the rise of the 24 hour news cycle."<br /><br />Right, crime rates and cocooning influence each other. First people come out of their cocoons, then shortly later criminals have an easier time finding vulnerable targets. That goes on until the population figures it's had enough, and they begin to cocoon. With fewer targets out in the open, with their guard down, criminals have a harder time and crime rates begin to fall.<br /><br />I elaborated a little more on it here:<br /><br />http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2013/09/mimicry-link-between-crime-and.htmlagnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-76113801453675593772013-09-30T20:43:08.343-04:002013-09-30T20:43:08.343-04:00"Making a zany face is a way to break up mono..."Making a zany face is a way to break up monotony and demonstrate an offbeat personality."<br /><br />That makes it sound like most of the time they're making normal healthy expressions. But their default look is an iPhone zombie, and few or none of their pictures show them with real smiles.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-73973574191086295572013-09-30T15:03:05.380-04:002013-09-30T15:03:05.380-04:00I've thought photo fatigue could be a cause fo...I've thought photo fatigue could be a cause for kabuki faces. When your whole life is documented like it is for young kids today, making the same normal smiling face over and over gets tedious. Making a zany face is a way to break up monotony and demonstrate an offbeat personality.Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-45993363480306952822013-09-30T14:54:07.729-04:002013-09-30T14:54:07.729-04:00Agnostic, it looks like you have helicopter parent...Agnostic, it looks like you have helicopter parenting as the root of a lot of today’s social awkwardness. But what caused helicopter parenting? <br /><br />My first thoughts are high crime in the 1980s and the rise of the 24 hour news cycle. <br /><br />I'm a new reader, so if you've addressed this before, I'd appreciate some direction.Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-87426192694089221772013-09-29T04:02:30.862-04:002013-09-29T04:02:30.862-04:00Millenial generation takes not much pleasure in so...Millenial generation takes not much pleasure in social attention, separately has more anxiety, but is competitive and status conscious.<br /><br />So either doesn't want to be in photos (as being photographed doesn't put them in a good mood), or do and takes a self promoting, image conscious view of having photos taken of them. Or both at once. For more people, photos are more something slightly unpleasant or not that pleasurable that you have to do to promote your image. There's also the element that the photographer (when its not just a self pic) is also not sensitive to the subject giving them enjoyable attention (like a smile) so they're not likely to give positive, relaxing feedback to the subject.<br /><br />Making joyful, unselfconscious photos don't happen so much.<br /><br />You can see the difference in face composites of introverts and extraverts - http://i.imgur.com/5yVhB.jpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-24625825972700601632013-09-29T02:37:27.933-04:002013-09-29T02:37:27.933-04:00Other than the obesity epidemic, nothing comes to ...Other than the obesity epidemic, nothing comes to mind.<br /><br />You might be interested in this old post on the change in body shape, though, between rising-crime and falling-crime times:<br /><br />http://akinokure.blogspot.com/2011/10/ideal-female-body-shape-during-safer-vs.html<br /><br />If you like more meat on the bones, you definitely want to be in a falling-crime period ('50s, 2010s). Of course, women in such periods wait longer, require more investment, and dole less of it out even when married.<br /><br />In reality, voluptuous women in those periods serve more as eye candy for the voyeuristic masses than as "try before you buy" girlfriends.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-85446340064532437362013-09-28T22:32:41.846-04:002013-09-28T22:32:41.846-04:00Gosh I'd forgotten what a cute bab she was bac...Gosh I'd forgotten what a cute bab she was back in the day.<br /><br />ON the flipside, do you think that there is an upswing in fugliness that coincides with millenials?cohonoreply@blogger.com