glasses! [with bonus poll! and exclamation points!]

[wisdomeagle]

Apologies if posted twice. Email post didn't seem to work?

Theory: glasses are often used as visual markers for intelligence!

Daniel Jackson (yes - glasses come from movieverse - "basically, he's a geek, sir.")
dorkverse!Sam Carter (very much yes!)
ETA: ZELENKA! (how did I forget him?? Adorkable! Also? Glasses = smart.)
Giles (ditto!)
William (but not Spike) (not only intelligence, but also dorkitude! Glasses = the opposite of cool)
Seth Green wanted to, but Oz doesn't (just sayin')
Wesley (but he stops wearing them in later seasons!)
Fred Burkle (she also stops wearing them in later seasons! No one knows why.)
Janine Kishi (*cough*)
Karen Brewer's two pairs of glasses, one blue, one pink (err!)
Mallory Pike (and they are VERY DORKY. And Mal HATES THEM.)
Jessi Ramsey for reading (right?)
Mary Anne for reading (I think this is Portrait Collection canon.)
Harry Potter (more dorkitude than intelligence)
Minerva McGonagall (omgsexx. Err.)
Are Dumbledore's canon?
Simon (from The Sentinel) (not so much dorkitude, but just a Thing, iirc?)
Logan (Dark Angel) (v. much with the dorkitude)
Normal (Dark Angel) (omg teh_dorkitude)
Alistair (ATGB) (I quite like this as a counter-example.)


The poll is kind of unrelated to the above thoughts, except insofar as both are about glasses and I haven't posted a poll in several hours and omg wtf is wrong with me?

[Poll #545839]



PS: I might be writing Sam/Daniel weddingfic set in the "When I Am Old I Shall" verse. *headdesks happily*

ETA: Eek! Preliminary results are worrying me! Have you all been ruining your eyesight by staring too long at the computer?

ETA2: Okay, so not the computers, then. Still, am worried! *huggles blindish!flist*

Comments

[silent-chris.livejournal.com]

Yay, Sam/Daniel!

And might I add to your list of smart specs-wearers.

The West Wing: President Bartlett, Leo McGarry, Sam Seabourne, Will Bailey, Admiral Fitzwallace.

Futurama: The Professor

Babylon 5: Dr Franklin (in the final episode).

Batman: Barbara Gordon/Oracle

Even James T Kirk wore reading glasses.

[wisdomeagle]

Ooh, thanks! (Don't watch any of those shows, so it's good to know.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

You don't watch The West Wing??? Never? This is just so very, very wrong!!!

Will you let me lend you my S1 DVDs?

There's something just... exalting... about the first four seasons of this show.

Please say yes!

[wisdomeagle]

Just a couple of episodes of, um, some random season? The president's daughter had just been kidnapped? I watched 'em last semester -- have been considering taping, but don't have enough tape.

Will you let me lend you my S1 DVDs?

Uh, yes? That is, yes! I'd be delighted.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

Yay! E-mail me at lcbergstrom at cox dot net with mailing instructions.

*happy dance of fannish sharing*

I highly recommend watching several episodes in a row if you can make the time. I watched 12 eps in one weekend when I first started watching and it was one of the more remarkable experiences of my life. Just incredible. Aaron Sorkin is brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[glimmergirl.livejournal.com]

Usually, I wear my glasses, but I also have contacts. :)

Have you all been ruining your eyesight by staring too long at the computer?

Alas, I have been wearing glasses since I was a wee, bitty pre-computer glim.

[wisdomeagle]

I've been wearing glasses since before I was regularly on the computer, and have needed them for even longer.

:)

*random snuggling of teh_glim*

[jedi-penguin.livejournal.com]

Now I feel old. I've been wearing glasses since before the advent of home computers, when they were just big mythical things in laboratories with punch cards.

*feels old now*

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Not just Will Bailey, but also CJ, for reading and when she wants to cow the press, and Jeremy Goodwin (Josh Molina, before he got the role as Will Bailey on West Wing), because he was very, very, dorky, and very smart. I seem to recall he knew all the punctuation rules or something.

Dumbledore's are canon ("half-moon," looks over them, twinkles a lot).

And of course, "men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses." (It's just all the women who see McGonagall and squeal at the utter sexiness of repressed witches of a certain age.

[wisdomeagle]

Oooh, CJ wears GLASSES? (I've seen ~2 eps of WW, and was v. tired at the time, but developed instant infatuation with CJ, even though I don't now remember what she looks like.)

thx re: the HP canon check.

If men don't make passes and girls in glasses, that means more glasses-wearing!women for me, right? I see no bad. :)

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

CJ is hot, and smart, and there are the glasses (reading only, I think) [and she went to Cal!]. They're really cute, and she's self-conscious about them, too, I think. I don't watch it any more, so I have no idea what Chief of Staff CJ is like (I wrote CoS, and then thought, Chamber of Secrets CJ? Now there's a pairing that hurts my brain).

I also have no problem with the fact that men are stupid, because I love women in glasses.

Sam was fantastic before dorkdom, and but afterwards... she's great in glasses, and really ought to wear them more often.

[that_mireille]

Eek! Preliminary results are worrying me! Have you all been ruining your eyesight by staring too long at the computer?

I've needed glasses since before I learned to read (though I only got them at age 7... for some reason that I really wish my parents had asked more questions about, I spent five years being made to turn somersaults several times a day, in an attempt to improve my vision. I really, really want to know what that was all about, but my parents just shrug and say, "it was 1973. We trusted doctors back then."), so I don't think it's the computer's fault.

[wisdomeagle]

I think I recall that when I was young (probably around 6 or 7) my parents took me to an eyedoctor and I was told I needed to stop reading so much. I didn't, and I got glasses when I was, uh, 11 or 12.

I don't blame the computer either, but I worry for my near-sighted flist.

[that_mireille]

No one ever told me to read less. Of course, I think it was just assumed that I would need glasses, because everyone in my family, on both sides (whether they read a lot or not) needs glasses, though not everyone wears them. (Except two of my cousins, but they're totally blind, so that doesn't really weaken my argument.)

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

I've worn glasses pretty much full-time since college and that was the oldest anyone in my nuclear family lasted not having to wear them full-time. We have good teeth and crappy eyes.

And I have bifocals, actually, which is the computer's fault. And the lady was all, "well, you can get the kind with the visible lines or you can pay more for progressive lines," and I said, "BITCH, I'm THIRTY, GIVE ME THE PROGRESSIVE ONES," minus the BITCH because she was nice, but, you know, THIRTY.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

Progressive lenses - I meant to type. IE, you can't tell they're bifocals unless you wear them or I tell you.

[mice1900.livejournal.com]

I started wearing glasses in my grade four year. My focal length when not wearing them is maybe two inches. I have reading glasses, but the adjustment back and forth is slightly problematic. *sigh*

*hates the headaches*

[melwil.livejournal.com]

I wear bifocals and I have since I was ten, when they were the chunky plastic, Karen Brewer types. (Purple and pink on one pair though. Karen couldn't meet that!) I had issues with seeing things to the side, and the optomitrist thought focusing my eyes would do we wonders (and it did)

Also, not reading in the dark . . .

Now there's no lines and that's much better.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I'm supposed to be wearing contacts, the problem with that is I can see perfectly fine. Being nearsighted I can see very well, though for way far away things it tends to get a little blurry -- but not enough so I cannot make out what it is, you know? Out of every family member I have with glasses or contacts, I'm the only one that can survive without them to live a daily life. So to speak, really.

I do need the contacts for driving or for being at college, though. When I was younger -- elementry school younger -- I needed glasses. Then in junior high I got the contacts. Now I'm contemplating whether to use contacts or to get lazor eye surgery like my mother had several years ago. Even though I don't really need it per se, it would be a relief to finally see things in a clearer state if I do get the surgery.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

damn, now you've reminded me that my first icon idea when I got photoshop was a shot of fred with the line "men seldom make passes?" never could find a good glasses shot of her that worked, though. will have to try more.

Jean Grey wears glasses in the Xmen movies, right? or am I imagining?

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I've been wearing glasses since i think 5th grade, and my prescription hasn't needed changing since about 4 years ago, so clearly the computer-intensive-ness of the past 4 years of my life have not been detrimental to my eyesight.

I was gonna state that Dumbledore does in fact wear half-moon spectacles in canon, but i see someone has already left a comment to that effect.

Janine wears glasses?! You need to alert me to important facts like this. Do we know if she is near-sighted or far-sighted? (This question can of course wait until you are home with your Big Book of Canon.) currently, fic=approx. 700 words

[wisdomeagle]

At least according to the cover of Claudia and Mean Janine, she wears glasses. I'll go fetch my Big Book of Canon now, and email you what I discover about her.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

As stated in e-mail, i later today checked out a copy of said book; and upon seeing the cover i thought, "Huh, Ari was right." My second thought was "short-haired!Janine :)" I look forward to your e-mail.

[mayhap]

I mostly wear my contacts because I can see better in them so I put that down. But I still wear my glasses because they're sexy. :D :D :D

Hmm. Trelawney's glasses aren't really intelligence or dorkiness. More like battitude.

[karendreamer.livejournal.com]

Worn glasses since I was 12. I have always tended to be attracted to guys who wear glasses. I also like very intelligent men, so the whole glasses make you look smart thing is probably true. I think they are also used in some shows/movies to indicate "good guy, but not hero, hero's friend."

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Have you all been ruining your eyesight by staring too long at the computer?

LOL Nope. I've started wearing glasses when I was in CE1 which means I was six or seven at the time - don't remember when exactly during the schoolyear *g*

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

i am farsighted by genetics, and have been wearing bifocals for over 4yrs (farsighted folks tend to need them sooner than nearsighteds do) and this year i had to get a 2nd paid of glasses... one pair bifocal distances & close, and the 2nd is bifocal distance and midrange (up to about 10feet - called inlines) that i use for computer, doing stock at work, and other 'not near like reading' tasks :)
also,
Gil Grissom (& William Petersen) CSI
and in RL
Richard Dean Anderson
Scott Bakula
Brent Spiner
etc :)

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

and i was wearing them before we got a TV (i was 8 when we got that, and it was 5-6 weeks b/f my 8th b-day when i got the glasses), so it's before i started w/ computers (i was 16 when i started w/ them - 1982)

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I got glasses in grade 3, but no surprise as both my parents wear glasses too. There are few Chinese people I know who don't wear some type of glasses. Poor genes, yo.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I've worn glasses full-time since I was ten; I'm near-sighted and astigmatic. In the last few years (I'm now 47) I've also become farsighted and so have made the switch to bifocals. The adjustment was Not Fun *glower* but I finally got used to them after six or eight weeks and now I'm not even aware of any difference.

And yeah, glasses can be either dorky (Normal) or sexy (Giles) or both at the same time (Ray Kowalski on due South). I think it's part of the whole Smart = Sexy thing.

[triggerhappy.livejournal.com]

I've been wearing my glasses since...sophmore or junior year in high school - and did not yet have a computer.

Doesn't Velma from Scooby Doo wear glasses?
Also, Kerry Weaver from ER.
And the best of all? Alex Cabot from Law and Order SVU; I think for reading. Mmmmmmm.
Or, maybe, also for the impact on the jury. Ha!

[silent-chris.livejournal.com]

I have to say, girls in glasses are teh hot.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

And I have to say you're absolutely right.