Yeah. The cite is my eyeballs. There’s a difference between lashes growing from your lower lid and a painted on dark line on your lower lid. I would think anyone could see this.
There was the example already given of Nestor Carbonell. He does not wear eyeliner. Zac Efron is another example.
Here is a study showing how eyelash length has become a symbol of attractiveness across ethnicities as an evolutionary advantage.
The point of showing that is because what eyeliner is trying to imitate is long eyelashes. Men have longer eyelashes than women on average.
This is a simple observation repeated over and over. This gives some men who have particularly long and dark eyelashes the appearance of wearing eyeliner (which again, is meant to imitate that same visual effect).
I could go on, but I am not making these things up. I’m curious what you have to counter this aside from your own opinion.
Thank you for your examples. I have no cites beyond my own observation, so that may not be convincing enough for you. What I notice in Vance’s case is that his colouring does not seem to be consistent. Sometimes the guyliner is thicker, sometimes thinner. I did read that Trump was impressed by his eyes (budding bromance?) The site does not allow me to embed photos or articles, otherwise I would show you some.
That sounds like the kind of thing you’d expect with a natural feature like eyelashes. My eyelashes definitely look different in different lighting, or if, say, I’ve been rubbing my eyes when I had allergies, and so on.
I don’t think that has much relevance to the questions in this thread.
Who cares if he wears eyeliner. People have been applying makeup and doing things with skin tanning and shine. Enhancing their looks for stage and screen appearances for years.
There’s ways to do it better than some.
If you look like Alice Cooper for a spot on Sunday morning news shows, it’s time to rethink your stylist.
If Vance’s eyes are just like that, that fine too.
I don’t think he’s good looking. I think he looks like the asshole he is.
I don’t know if it’s relevant, but Latanoprost eye drops, which is used to reduce abnormally high intraocular pressure, also causes eyelashes to grow longer. I learned this recently at the ophthalmologist’s office when the nurse told me that the Latanoprost that I take is probably responsible for my eyelashes being so long. I was surprised, both because I hadn’t known that Latanoprost has this effect, and because I didn’t know that my eyelashes are longer than normal.
Nobody believes that Vance fucked a couch. But it’s “believable”. The point is that he looks and acts like a guy where the accusation sounds plausible.
He looks like a couch fucker and if the accusation was true nobody would be surprised.
Also, for everyone “disappointed” that the Dems are using dirty tricks, fuck that noise. I am glad that FINALLY the Dems are fighting fire with fire. I am sick and tired of going high when they go low, and then losing. Time to get into the mud and rumble.
Fully agree with this!! The last time we tried the whole “They go low. We go high” thing, it didn’t work out so well. You have to meet the opponent on their terms sometimes if you want to beat them at their own game. That said, we can take the higher road when it comes to substantial issues. Let them spin cycles defending against stupid stuff while people are laughing at them.
It matters because he has been trying to taint Walz as somehow effeminate for leading changes in Minnesota to have tampons available free at schools. The eyeliner thing is just shoving it back in his, uh, eye!
I’ll wait until JD Vance releases the long form of his book until I make a judgement. But it is suspicious that he has not offered the long form book yet.
I mean presumably all male politicians wear some kind of “make up” nowadays just like tv personalities do.
Though the point no one is trying to score points by claiming Walz wears make up as you except him to laugh and make a dad joke about it. You expect JD Vance to get pissy and storm off in a huff.
TBH none of this makes any difference to their suitability to be VP. And actually that fills me with joy. The Democrats have finally got it. Election campaigns are not about substance they are a popularity contest where vibes and image are all that matters.
The sort of people who say things like “Leaning down to kiss your wife is a feminine trait” and think Taylor Swift is trans because she’s taller than they are, who might be convinced not to vote if they could be persuaded that Vance doesn’t meet their twisted definition of masculinity.
This isn’t new, but the interwebs, outrage algorithms and social media have made it much easier? It’s always been hard to counter.
And, if one already doesn’t like the candidate or they are on the “other side that must be stopped”, and it comes across as “plausible”, then one may easily accept the unfounded accusation as “truth”.
AKA “Make the Sonofabitch deny it”: The Rise of ‘Pig Fucker Politics’
In “Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail ’72,” Hunter S. Thompson chronicled Senator George McGovern’s failed Presidential bid. In discussing McGovern’s distaste for ‘dirty politics’ that undermined his ability to hit back, Thompson regaled his readers with a famous story of Lyndon B. Johnson–who purportedly created a ridiculous rumor about his opponent on purpose:
Who the hell owns his book? Not most of the people who saw the tweet.
I back that citation. It’s a pretty obvious difference if the person is in front of you. And i find long thick eyelashes on a guy very attractive, and have spent a fair amount of time looking at them.
I’ve never seen a good enough photo of Vance to have an opinion one way or the other, but if i met him in person i would certainly know whether he was wearing eyeliner at the time