"Body double" conspiracy theories, when you start pulling the thread by looking at other images from the same event with no time for a switch, really underscore how weird the way our brains process faces can be.
https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1322273820972097540
Like, I get it... I think the Fake Melania meme is hilarious and I look at the comparison pictures people make of "Real Melania" and "Fake Melania" side by side and the features they highlight and to my mostly faceblind self they do appear quite different.
But, like. Faces are geometry and a three-dimensional object with soft contours can look jarringly different when viewed at slightly different angles. This is why people have a "best side" and why the tilt of a head matters in portraiture.
Big dark sunglasses and a different way of framing your face with your hair can change a lot. Just obliterating the context in which people are used to seeing the other features of your face can be a disguise - it's the Teacher In The Grocery Store problem.
The very simple fact is that we see in our brains, even if we see with our eyes. And our brains can't make sense of every single detail that the eyes are sending them. There's a lot of kludgy hacks and shortcut happening in the visual processing.
"But how do you explain that she sometimes seems happier to see him than other times?"
...I mean, why do I need to explain that? Is that supposed to make her seem *less* like a real person?
...I mean, why do I need to explain that? Is that supposed to make her seem *less* like a real person?
I mean, yeah, also this. Like *this* would be the secret they managed to keep?
https://twitter.com/JRobie_1970/status/1322282667065384965
And I get it! It's nice to think that the monster of a man is so fundamentally unlovable that even his own wife refuses to be seen with him, but lest we forget: she ain't that great a person, either.
Melania is not a damsel in distress or a princess locked in a tower any more than Lindsey Graham is a hapless victim of blackmail.
Please don't hate Trump so clumsily you make excuses for his chief enablers in order to "explain" their shows of support for him.
Please don't hate Trump so clumsily you make excuses for his chief enablers in order to "explain" their shows of support for him.
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