glamor photos and social science

[sistawendy]

But first: m'boy and I had a fabulous PCC picnic in the perfect weather on the far side of Green Lake, which of course involved walking around the lake. There was Eastsider spoiled teen whining about all the walking, to be sure, but less than usual.

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You all remember my photos from a few days back, right? Well, I've noticed something about the reaction to them: people seem to either like the first and third (the pic for this entry) best as the photographer leenerella, my mother, and I do, or they like the second and fourth best, as do maida_mac, gement, and the Siberian Siren.

Why is this? My theory is that it's because leenerella and I are both hippy chicks to a considerable degree: less artiness appeals to us, even if leenerella is the one who conceived the art in question. Mom's hardly a hippy, but she's a very left-brained woman who came of age in the middle of the last century at the height of modernism; she's also disinclined toward what John Lennon once called jiggery-pokery. It's also hard to get less hippy than the Siberian Siren.

I'm not going to take a poll about who likes which photos better, much less adjust any dating sites accordingly. My preference may say even more about me than the photos themselves.

Comments

[maribou]

I like the 3rd one the very best of all of them. And I am a 2nd-gen hippy, so I think you are right.

[maellenkleth]

I do also view the third one as being the best of what, on the whole, is a very good lot of portraits! As the old saying would have it, "you clean up right good!"

Calibration point: definitely a died-in-the-wool hippie-chick and engineer; have suffered to bother wearing makeup something like three times in the past almost-forty years (it'll be forty years since I ran away, in September of this year).

It's all good.

**hugs** from afar.....

/elane

[gement.livejournal.com]

I dig and totally agree with your reasoning. The most profile-worthy pictures are the ones you think look most like you. My taste for glam is pretty meaningless in that context.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

It's what you think that matters. :)

I am actually somewhat of a part-time hippy chick. I think it's just the eyes in those two seem more *something* to me. I'm not sure what that something is.

[tmfkan64.livejournal.com]

I like the second (and to a lesser degree, the fourth) less because of your hands. Nothing wrong with your hands, mind you... I just don't like the way they are posed, and so I prefer the 1st and 3rd.

I am most emphatically *not* a hippy. :-)