Has anyone ever remembered seeing people when they were small, and having grown up to look similar to them , as good or bad images?
i think (s)he meant: did you grow up to look like someone elses baby photos, except grown up. i dont think i have
Usually as people age they get better (20-50) looking then as they ripen with old age(50 till death) they turn into something that you'd never imagine.
You mean, like a jack-o-lantern at Thanksgiving? Yes, there are no baby pictures that can prepare one for that eventuality. I only have one baby picture, and I'm not really sure it is actually me. I think there was some kind of conspiracy surrounding my birth. I think my parents were trying to smuggle me out of Europe for a fee, and they ended up getting stuck with me somehow. Hey! It could happen.
Rule of thumb: The cutest babies are torture becuase you know they will lose it. Olivia Huxtable (Raven Simone) as a kid was a dumpling and now an odd looking black woman. Gary Coleman was toy-cute, and now he looks all misplaced. All that cuteness becomes a distortion with age- it seems they're only attractive to those that have NOT seen them as children. The only things that don't seem to lose all that cuteness are pets, maybe I'm bias. So pray for an ugly baby, they get better with age when all cute does is deteriorate.
I thought I was the only one who noticed this. I have seen many people and their baby pictures and wondered what went wrong in the process of aging. Yet so many who are drop dead gorgeous now were either ugly as kids or normal, hum drum, looking. Example: Angelina Jolie...sexy now but as a teen looked very plain and not at all becoming of a wild sex symbol. The Olsen twins; looked like mutants with giant foreheads as wee little youngins but grew up to be failry well looking before they starved themselves and went rail thin. Also about 95% of child stars...they seldom age with grace.
Sarge: Not only this, but notice what truly makes something ugly is the misplacing of things you've got classified. You’ve classified a long nose as adult, but on a baby its spooky. An adult shaped head or mouth on a baby looks odd- which is why Jewish babies lose the cuteness around the lips. Midgets look odd because the classifications clash. You expect a saddle-shapped nose or kinky hair on a Negro person, but on a white its weird because its misplaced. Or a Negro person with a horse-face, features usually classed as European. The Braxton sisters and Scottie Pippen are almost enchanting to look at for this reason. All these things are almost captivatingly ugly, yet none are malformed or crippled. Pause. Olsen twins? Olsen twins?
From a heterosexual perspective, I have to agree with sarge. Though blondes in general aren't my type. What kind of women do you find attractive, Gendanken?
Xerxes: The kind with long black hair and beards like your mammy. Kidding. I'm strictly hetero. Neat thing about my gender- I can look at everything aesthetically without being ridiculed. Angeli Jolie is fucking beautiful even though her mouth looks like a preschooler's vagina. But if you say something like Viggo is a god or just 'cute' they look at you funny. You might as well have farted.
I can look at everything aesthetically, ie -I have a great admiration for Brad Pitt and Sean Connery, in a hetero way- but its not considered kosher for me to say so. j/k anyway. I know you're not a lesbian.
Also it is amazing how much hair adds or subtracts from one's appeal. Look at Chris Cornell (Audioslave/Soundgarden)...in his Soundgarden days he looked like every other grunge head with his long curly hair, and now with his short hair and some fuzz on his face he is a resurrected rock god. Dead protein goes a long way.
Xerxes: This, my point. Lies. I turn myself on. Sargelard: So does silicone and wonderbras. But hair really does make a difference- don't know if you remember, Freddy from Its a Different World. One second a nappy homeless chick and the next a corporate goddess...simply because she pulled the dreadlocks back in a ponytail. Ok, this is inane but the cutting of hair can reallllly fuck with your psychology. But that cornell........*drool*. Hair or no hair makes a girl moist. At any rate, as this thread has staled: cuteness triggers the protective instinct. So we see it as adorable. The transformation of it into an adult physiognomy no longer triggers that protective instinct that registers as ‘cute therefore helpless” It now comes triggers a carnal impulse to mate with it or an indifferent one that sees it as object. Notice that people only feel a need to protect things below them- like babies and puppies. For the anal- we're talking people here, not art.
