# Oh my god please shut up about the stupid dress already **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016 "2015-03-02T15:48:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/21 "2015-03-02T17:16:38Z")
What color is the dress after it’s been through the ALS ice water challenge? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/22 "2015-03-02T17:17:17Z")
There are all kinds of fascinating optical illusions all over the internet. What’s puzzling is why this one was blown so far out of proportion. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/23 "2015-03-02T17:29:26Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Why did **you** have to be the one who made this post? I like you. Why couldn’t a set up line like this have come from somebody I don’t like or, at least, somebody over whom I wouldn’t feel bad for taking a cheap shot?:mad: Go ahead, take the cheap shot, now I am curious. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/24 "2015-03-02T17:32:44Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Bite my butt, both of you. Good Christ, where are they even supposed to _start_?:eek: ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/25 "2015-03-02T17:35:28Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It was never amusing or interesting. It was stupid from inception. One image showed one colour and the other image showed another depending on whether or not the white balance was blown out for that particular photo. That is absolutely and completely wrong. People were seeing both colors from the same images on the same screens. Some people saw both from the same image on the same screen. It had nothing to do with multiple images. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/26 "2015-03-02T17:39:30Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It was never amusing or interesting. It was stupid from inception. One image showed one colour and the other image showed another depending on whether or not the white balance was blown out for that particular photo. See my comments re the 6 page thread. According to the experts there, you are incorrect. You \*are \*pulling off the condescending part though. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/27 "2015-03-02T17:43:37Z")
Some people just see a blue dress, some can only see the white… wait, are we talking about Monica again? ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/28 "2015-03-02T17:44:18Z")
I’ve been hoping for at least one dress-color-argument inspired homicide before it does pass. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/29 "2015-03-02T17:56:45Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Good Christ, where are they even supposed to _start_?:eek: Imagine the left cheek as a (very) large clock face. Put the initial bite at right about 8:30. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/30 "2015-03-02T18:24:47Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Some people just see a blue dress, some can only see the white… wait, are we talking about Monica again? Well, I sure hope the semen stain wasn’t blue and black! :eek:😛 And the dress is clearly green and orange. Duh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/31 "2015-03-02T18:28:41Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KVbr37_yPeY/maxresdefault.jpg "Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels-Devil in a Blue Dress") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVbr37_yPeY) ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/32 "2015-03-02T18:31:16Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > :rolleyes: I felt like bitching about it. I came to the Approved Portal of Bitching. Bite my butt, both of you. in order for them to do that you would have to pull up your dress (of undetermined color). ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/33 "2015-03-02T18:42:48Z")
Thanks, **Duckster**! Blast from the Past! ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/34 "2015-03-02T18:45:00Z")
Social media doesn’t know when to stop; they always drag on a story about 2x too long. The dress color issue was interesting for about 1-2 days. Not 3-4 days. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/35 "2015-03-02T18:47:01Z")
The problem isn’t with #thedress, which is actually a really cool sort of crowdsourced citizen-science demonstration on the physiology and psychology of color vision. The actual problem is twofold: 1. Societal sexist assumptions that the subject is automatically trivial and mockable because looking at dress colors is just girrrrrrrrrrly. (I guaranfuckingtee you that if the photo in question had been a similarly color-ambiguous amateur snapshot of, say, a striped shirt on a famous male soccer or rugby player, 95% of the people now sneering at #thedress would instead be eagerly discussing how interesting and informative this serendipitous optical illusion turned out to be.) 2. Topic saturation on all forms of digital news and social media, which nowadays are expected to be constantly active 24/7, so they all keep repeating and rehashing and revisiting every story over. and over. and over. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/36 "2015-03-02T20:02:35Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > It was never amusing or interesting. It was stupid from inception. One image showed one colour and the other image showed another depending on whether or not the white balance was blown out for that particular photo. That’s…not at all what was going on, nor why it was so interesting to people. And, really, the MOST interesting thing about it were the superior, dismissive sorts who thought they knew exactly what was going on when they actually missed the point entirely. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/37 "2015-03-02T20:59:11Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > The problem isn’t with #thedress, which is actually a really cool sort of crowdsourced citizen-science demonstration on the physiology and psychology of color vision. The actual problem is twofold: > > 1. Societal sexist assumptions that the subject is automatically trivial and mockable because looking at dress colors is just girrrrrrrrrrly. (I guaranfuckingtee you that if the photo in question had been a similarly color-ambiguous amateur snapshot of, say, a striped shirt on a famous male soccer or rugby player, 95% of the people now sneering at #thedress would instead be eagerly discussing how interesting and informative this serendipitous optical illusion turned out to be.) > > 2. Topic saturation on all forms of digital news and social media, which nowadays are expected to be constantly active 24/7, so they all keep repeating and rehashing and revisiting every story over. and over. and over. Your guaranfuckingteeing it doesn’t make it so. I don’t care what it’s a picture of, it’s gone way over the top. So your number 2 is correct. You’re number 1, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/38 "2015-03-02T21:02:41Z")
Just shut up about it. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/39 "2015-03-02T21:27:29Z")
Who cares what color it is - does it make my butt look big? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016/40 "2015-03-02T21:30:33Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Who cares what color it is - does it make my butt look big? > > Regards, > Shodan You look mah-velous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-my-god-please-shut-up-about-the-stupid-dress-already/714016.md?page=3)