Reply #25: Hey. I'm an attractive white woman and it works the same here.

[TalkingDog]

I figured that one out in my teens.

Read the book "Blink".

We all make instantaneous judgments. No one is immune from that particular foible. It is simply how our brains are wired.

But....BUT....the difference is how we react to that instantaneous judgement.
Do we go with our "blink"? Sometimes, for safety's sake, yes. But other times, we need to stop and gather more information. Because although our "gut", our "blink" is generally right. It is sometimes very wrong.

I use a similar idea when I teach 2-D design. I'll have students offer up one shoe and then pick 3 or 4 in a variety of styles. I ask them to describe the "person" that wears this shoe. It's amazing how detailed and rich the feedback from that one little item of clothing can be. Sometimes the description "fits" the real owner, sometimes not. But it teaches them a very valuable lesson about the internal chatter created by visual stimuli.



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