Anyone here afraid of CLOWNS?

[some_of_us_are_sane]

Other than the clown in Stephen King's "It"- (like that BIG CLOWN in the middle there) - I've never understood the huge number of folks afraid of them.



Do you suffer from this phobia? Why?....... Do you know?

[hlthe2b]

1. Just MIMES!

(Kidding... I used to like the Barnum & Baily clowns--the horror movie types, not so much).

[some_of_us_are_sane]

3. Poor mimes!

They just can't speak up for thenselves.

[Walleye]

2. Not afraid of them, a little creeped out, with some of them, but in human ways, not supernatural

[some_of_us_are_sane]

4. I understand that

and never thought of that before. What are they HIDING under all that makeup?

Interesting!

[Walleye]

7. When I first started working for the paper, I got a really good shot of two clowns backstage with very serious expressio

Expressions and a dog all dressed up with a little hat. It’s still one of my favorite pictures I’ve ever taken because of the way they were looking right at me I have thought different about them since then

[some_of_us_are_sane]

10. They are wonderful to study

The creativity and variety are mind-boggling. (Glad you got your shot of them.)

[Aristus]

5. Only clowns, like Pennywise, that are intended to be scary.

That's different.

When I was a kid, I loved clowns. I loved that they could be silly, and funny, and do pratfalls, and make people laugh. I loved the colorful makeup and creative outfits. This was before John Wayne Gacy. I felt safe around clowns, because they were viewed as safe and kind, and caring of children. I guess Gacy fucked all that up.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

12. ABSOLUTLEY. GACY brought down all clowns!

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But I DID LOVE CLARABELL on the Howdy Doody show!

[markodochartaigh]

6. I've never been afraid of clowns.

But I'm very much afraid of kkklowns, like in the current regime.

[Walleye]

8. Yep. The only thing we have to fear is stupidity itself. Apologies to FDR

[some_of_us_are_sane]

16. Ditto!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

13. Yep!

[debm55]

9. Clowns creep me out. I do not like.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

14. You're in a BIG CLUB, debm55.

I was afraid of Santa Claus when I was tiny.

[Ocelot II]

11. I'm not afraid of them but I don't like them much.

There's something creepy and vaguely menacing about the makeup style.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

15. Maybe that's part of what people fear....

who or WHAT is under that greasepaint?

[2MuchNoise]

17. Just the orange ones.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

18. Wink!

[Blue Owl]

19. Just punch those orange ones

HARD!

[some_of_us_are_sane]

20. ROFL!

[Borogove]

21. Not afraid of them. Just never saw the appeal.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

22. That's fine, Borogove

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