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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3197 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 15, 2023

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What's the strangest thing that someone has ever told you was attractive about you? The strangest thing you've found yourself attracted to in someone else?

Once someone was immensely impressed by the fact that I carried a phone without a case.

As for me, big dark frame glasses raise anyone 2 whole points for me, gets me every time. Blame Mrs FiveHour.

Oversized glasses are one of the many artificial nudge/enhancers one can use.

It is an instance of a supra-normal stimulus

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I'm intrigued by your gender neutral comment though. Would you see those oversized glasses on a man face?

Close to zero straight men assume that looks currently.

IMO I think it could enhance a man's look although as usual people have a completely broken idea of what a maximally attractive man looks like.

The strangest thing you've found yourself attracted to in someone else?

I should definitely come back to that question, I am in complete awe with many things that some people do that are quite ineffable yet charming.

Humans are so awkward, imperfect and so fucking lovely.

The best compliment I've received lately was that some of my comments were so semantically dense it were intensely charming. As a semi-sapiosexual that's indeed one of my compliments lifegoal :)

Once someone was immensely impressed by the fact that I carried a phone without a case.

Relatable, at first I was really stressing about it but actually it's quite trivial to not let ur phone fall.

The glasses as a tool to make you more attractive only work if they have non-distorting lenses. I am short-sighted and need an asymmetric focal length configuration and my glasses make my eyes look squished and distorted.

Right although some glasses have nice to have distortions such as a loop effect that makes your eyes appear larger than they are.

You can always wear contact lenses if that annoys you and optionally change the color of your eyes or make them appears reptile or feline like :)

or make them appears reptile or feline like :)

Or the Sharingan from Naruto

That would be so coool :)

Rinegan too!

Who can deny the magnetism of Robert DeNiro in his VR glasses fully defeated and back to picking winners at the end of Casino? It's certainly a striking look.

My mom has worn the same pair (replaced when damaged) of comically large sunglasses for about 30 years (they were the first prescription sunglasses she found that were large and dark enough for her eye comfort. She reports that every 5 to 7 years she gets compliments from much more stylish women.

I mean there's no need to get into stimulus science or whatever, it's simple association. My wife wears big glasses, I like my wife, over ten years I start liking big glasses.

I probably would think men look better in similar glasses, but I don't fuck men so idk if it totally translates, and certainly it's not helpful to those men.

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