Get in loser we’re researching the history of Doll FearTM
I found an 1894 reference to the idea that dolls with half-open and half-shut eyes (think dolls with eyes that “sleep“ getting stuck halfway) and dolls whose expressions are too fixed in a pronounced smile are creepy. So that’s pretty much all I’ve got so far, but we’ll see what else google books has to offer up
- One writer in the 1940s expresses that he finds the gimmick of the Dy-Dee Doll “creepy.” Considering that this was one of the first dolls that came with a bottle and appeared to urinate, I’m inclined to agree with him. Or, if not creepy, that I find this function extremely bizarre as an element of play
- The first reference I found to an inherently creepy doll was in 1961. That doesn’t necessarily mean no one ever thought that any earlier, but it does seem to have been an attitude that gain prominence in the mid20th century
- 1965 review of the 1920s short story “the haunted dolls-house“ includes the opinion that old dolls are always creepy. Thus bolstering my previous statement on when this idea began to really take hold in the public consciousness
- there’s a huge spike in results from the 1980s on to the present day. All of this is really serving to suggest that the idea of dolls having some inherently scary or spooky quality is much newer than people might think.
- also, I don’t think the Uncanny Valley effect Re: static dolls is a biological fact. Fight me. If this attitude was almost nonexistent until like 60 years ago, or at least sufficiently uncommon that finding sources on it is very difficult, how can it be some ingrained evolutionary response? if we’re supposedly “wired“ to be afraid of dolls, how come our ancestors were far less so than we seem to be today, on the whole? that’s completely putting aside the fact that, as many people seem to forget, the uncanny valley theory as originally written contains the element of motion. it’s not just about inhuman humanoid figures of any sort; it specifically deals with ones that move
‘whats your hogborts house?’ is played the heck out. what is your TINGLE TYPE? there are four kinds of tinglers and all of them welcome trans, gay, lesbian, asexual, non-binary, bisexual, gender fluid and every other bud because your love is real and valid
*googles “how to make it socially shameful and abhorrent to have 8 acres of treeless lawn”*
Rich people houses have the most blatantly wasteful enormous lawns
I am doing so much on my one little acre…but then I see the McMansion with 10 acres that are just no trees no flowers nothing except grass and I feel such anger and despair…
*googles “how to write an article that says personal choices cause ecological devastation but not if you’re a regular person just if you have a giant house with 10 acres of grass*
How to give a presentation and invite all the rich people to it and it shows them their giant houses on Google Earth next to the regular people houses and then it says "You have 16 normal sized yards and live right next to people whose kids can barely play outside without getting turned into roadkill. You are a feudal lord except you don’t even allow the peasants access to your grain mill or blacksmith’s forge.”
The fundamental American vice is believing everything of your wealth came from hard work, so to deal with the American McMansion problem, someone needs to write a thing in one of those, you know, landscape and design magazines about how flat grass lawns are trashy and lazy-looking, the choice of a man who wants to sit on his ass all day riding around on a dinky little machine.
Are you a Real American Man who Works Hard, or are you a Lazy Bum that settles for the Tasteless, Basic Monotony of Flat Grass
True Elegance and Sophistication is seen in yards that incorporate 22 Different Prairie Grasses and a Hundred Flowers, imitating the perfection of Nature as closely as possible, as only the most diligent, thoughtful, and sensitive individuals can do
Are you willing to put your Rugged Nails in Dirt, or will you placidly ride back and forth, ass planted on your plodding Cuck Engine, like some kind of sheep?
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