Comments on this recent post got me to researching what fades in our coloring as we age, makeup application, and a bunch of related topics. For example, did you realize that the facial skin of a Caucasian woman typically darkens with age? I certainly didn’t! Having been called “Casper” for many years, I was not …
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In light of my recent “old” trauma (stealth pun?), I did a little research into how it is we humans so quickly assess what kind of a person we are seeing. Among the various models I found of recognition, I think feature-matching is most often employed. Feature-matching: search for simple but characteristic features. Undoubtedly, gray …
Since reading How Do 50+ Women Become Visible? at the blog Privilege, I have been ruminating on this quote: … people are hard-wired to make sense of other people by matching them to a known visual pattern. (Really. It keeps coming back up.) 😉 Mainly my thoughts have been colored by the question, what known …
