maniac1075

VLRGA

In movies/shows/books, the character that's supposed to be intelligent is almost always wearing glasses, and the people wearing glasses are almost always with a higher than average intelligence. Why is this?

It's not as if having bad eyesight (the reason you'd have to wear them) makes you brilliant or something. It's pretty much a stereotype that most of us buy into anyway; we usually tend to assume that a person in real life with glasses is a "smart person" unless it's very obvious they're an idiot (probably the case with me). And if an actor/actress that doesn't normally wear glasses suddenly puts them on, it somehow makes their character seem like a genius instead of average?

I just thought of something: Maybe in the old days, a person that was an intellectual would read a lot, and they had glasses to see words better, and somehow the two became associated? I don't know, give me an explanation.

deed rape · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:49 am Post subject:

I don't know why but this seems true in my family. None of my parents, aunts, uncles have glasses and they were C students in school. Now my cousins and myself all have glasses and are either in high school, college, or graduated from college. And out of all my cousins, I'm the dumb one with only a 4.0 GPA. I have a cousin that will be going to Yale next year, I have a cousin that did great in college and is now a nurse, and a few more cousins in high school that are in the top 20 of their class.
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Maniac1075 · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:59 pm Post subject:

its the geek stereotype.
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thunderhayes · Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

yeah, i mean i wear glasses and im not the smartest person youll know, in fact sometimes i act a little goofy

thunderhayes · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject:

VLRGA · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

Yeah, suspenders would help someone in a pantsing situation; I never thought of that.

What about bow ties?

thunderhayes · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:39 pm Post subject:

Ahh, the bow tie...to keep with the nerd look I guess...I don't know really.

VLRGA · Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow_tie

I Googled "bow tie" and found a Wikipedia page on it. Apparently architects are supposed to wear them often because they don't dangle like a necktie when drawing.

thunderhayes · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 9:47 am Post subject:

That makes sense, I mean, it's like long hair. Long hair fits with rockers cause they look cool, but someone like an architect or a preacher or some other "normal" profession wouldn't look that good.

Maniac1075 · Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 8:26 pm Post subject:

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architect, least the one who did the shit they call "art" around this city anyway
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thunderhayes · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:24 am Post subject:

Therapist...or "the rapist"?