[ SECRET POST #2565 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2565 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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08. [SPOILERS for Shingeki no Kyojin / Attack on Titan]



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09. [SPOILERS for The Walking Dead]
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12. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]
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Comments

Re: White Collar silliness about eyewear.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, a lot of younger people do wear reading glasses if they're farsighted; it's more rare than myopia in young people, but it certainly happens. If it's strong enough that they need them for more than reading, you'll see that their eyes, to you, look magnified. (Obviously, in film, that clue hardly ever exists. In fact, chances are, the actor, costumer, director and writer haven't even THOUGHT about what type of vision the character really has).

But yes, in TV world, nobody is nearsighted unless they are intellectual or a nerd, and nobody female wears glasses and is the lead unless a makeover happens, and NOBODY ever can't use contacts when the makeover happens (aside from the comedic montage of them using them the first time and then magically never having problems again). It's extremely rare for somebody to just be nearsighted without it being part of one of those tropes; for them just to happen to need glasses and that that not MEAN anything about their character.

The reasons are obvious - it is fucking hard to film real glasses. Actors who don't need them have a hell of a time of it - GOK only goes so far and is uncomfortable - and (at least before anti-reflective coatings and modern materials) they are hard to film. The refractions change the shape of eyes and eyes are a huge part of the actors' toolbox. It's also really hard to get actors (whose face is their product) to alter their face without a really good reason - like playing a famous person who wore them, or a part where it's a main plotpoint.

Not to mention, that even in RL a lot of people who don't wear them have ZERO CLUE about how glasses work. People ask me to read things for them because "Oh, you'll be able to see this - you wear glasses," like their a magic vision talisman and I have to remind them, no, with glasses, I have vision EQUAL to theirs. Or, "Come sit in the front so you can see," when, again, glasses mean I can see in the back JUST FINE, now, thanks. (That REALLY bugged me in school when it was a fucking RULE that kids with glasses sat in the front. Grr.)

I've had perfect strangers tell me I shouldn't wear them because they ruin my looks. And I've had people that KNOW me go on about how obviously, if I just ditched those things I'd be able to snag a partner. I've had SEVERAL people feel they had the right to reach out and REMOVE THEM FROM MY FACE and then didn't understand why I got very upset.

And media about glasses ends up reflecting that - glasses in fiction show that a person is a particular TYPE rather than that a person has a particular eye condition. Sexy glasses, librarian glasses, BCGs... pages and pages on TV tropes for what each type of frame "means". and people get used to decoding that costuming language, and damnit, it refilters into RL. So people see me my frames will make a lot of shitty assumptions about me, my character, my sexuality, my personality, etc, and it all SUCKS.

*ahem*

Like I said, I have a few issues.

Also, hey, at least the White Collar example ended up being JUSTIFIED. Disguise glasses!