Why are so many people afraid of clowns?
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Just look at the line up:
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Ive tried to analyse it in myself and I think it is that the wig, masking makeup and bizarre outfits, give off a sense of "something to hide" and that in itself is disturbing.
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Eric Idle voices a similar revulsion to these archetypal qualities: “Clowns are grotesquely painted, horrifying, mad people who come lurching toward us, threatening us, involving us…They know no boundaries. They scare us because they are most like us; they are adults who behave like children.”
end quote------- Coulrophobia & The Trickster By Joseph Durwin
I have met other people with the same fear and it always seems to have stemmed from childhood. I think the reason movies portray clowns in such an evil or disturbing way, is because they are playing on an already existing (possibly instinctive) fear.
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Besides, sometimes clown makeups really look scary. T.T
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Suddenly, here's this guy, all in weird makeup, CLEARLY off his rocker, all up in my face saying all this crazy stuff shortly after having the "stranger danger" convo with my parents, but THIS guy (again, who's clearly mad) is okay to let near me...
WTF??
Then of course, a few years later I read Steve King's IT and that pretty much sealed the deal.
You know, there's a REASON they include clowns in haunted houses during Halloween.
It's because they're SCARY.
Yeesh... I need a drink...
The horror of Clowns...
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Coulrophobia is abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. The term is common, but it does not appear to be used in psychology.1 It is common among children, but is also sometimes found in teenagers and adults as well.needed Sufferers sometimes acquire a fear of clowns after having a bad experience with one personally. It can also be the effect of seeing a sinister portrayal of one in the media,needed such as the monster that took on the disguise of a clown in Stephen King's novel and film It.
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Information quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia
Here is link that provide more information about the condition
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1348484/why_are_people_afraid_of_clowns__pg2.html?cat=38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LshnXhYm4_I
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