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    Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Also: a snub nose=snooty. Hooded eyelids=seductive and/or 'dopey'. Small eyes=distrustful. I may have looked like an Aryan poster child when I was lit... more »
    TurtleSpeak: That is a weird goddamn book. I especially love the "Deceitful head". And that narrowheaded bird looks pretty dangerous to me. more »
    squirrelcop: Shifty-eyed dog finds this all very questionable. more »
    AfroJezeBella: I think Disney just makes the villains as wacky looking as possible without considering race. more »
    clevernamehere: Doesn't baby-faced killer just mean too young to shave? To me, the most fascinating examples of "scientific racism" are the mid-19th century British c... more »
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    Raederle: I prefer this take on things, from Roald Dahl: "A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and ... more »
    Perpetual Ingenue: Facial reading, people do it whether or not they have a manual. Hence all of the plastic surgery. Its why women get their lips injected, because peopl... more »
    badmutha: Phhttt! Why are you trying to extrapolate this fine and surely accurate information, which is clearly only about teh mens, to features of teh wimmens?... more »
    BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): Jay Leno is evil. It's not just good comedy that he's murdered. more »
    Questioning Everything: Wow. According to this book, half of the elderly people I encounter cannot be trusted. With age, noses continue to elongate, eyelids begin to droop,... more »
    shorty63136: Apparently, if you had Morton's Toe (toe next to the big toe is actually LONGER than the big toe), you were dishonest and possibly a whore. more »
    badmutha: I always thought that it was less about ethnicity and more about classical "the ideal" until I realized that "the ideal" was developed by European whi... more »
    bluebears: I don't care what you say, Ben Franklin was a vicious bastard! Damn you Ben Franklin! You and your bi-focals can rot in HELL. more »
    shorty63136: OMG we totally studied this type of "anthropology", as it were called back then, in my Diversity and Concepts of Race class. By the end of the semeste... more »
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    "Practical Character Reader" A Lesson In Xenophobia, Racism & Disney Villains

    A 1902 book called Vaught's Practical Character Reader, scanned and posted on Sociological Images, demonstrates the false assumption that you can assess a person's character based on his or her physical appearance. More »