Just a little debate I was having with my mum…
She refuses to show any enthusiasm for my new found interest in unicycling and circus stuff unless I stop referring to myself as a clown because she doesn’t like clowns and is afraid of them. She seems to think she is really original in this but most people I know seem to be scared of clowns and reckon even clowns themselves probably find clowns creepy.
Any thoughts…
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I am too frightened of my own thoughts to express them.
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a lot of people are afraid of clowns…this is partially because of the movie It, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.
And clowns do just look scary, with all their freakish make up, it just creeps people out…
they don’t scare me
James,
I think the book It by Stephen King and the movie that was made from it have little or nothing to do with the phenomenon of fear of clowns. I’d be willing to venture that the incidence of this phobia has been negligibly affected by that story which was itself certainly inspired by the condition.
I’m not scared of clowns, I find them quite interesting and fun. Though I do agree with you that their are a ridiculous amount of people scared of them. I think there has been a few to many shows where they show clowns as evil demon spirits things out to kill everyone.
Why should anyone be afraid of clowns?
Maybe the pharmaceutical companies can get fear of clowns made into a syndrome or condition, create a drug to treat it and then hawk it on TV.
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To me, clowns aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kinda scary. I’ve wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
that could be, but, a lot of people I’ve talked to say that their fear was either started by or at least accentuated by the movie It…
A while ago, National Geographic did this study on the fears of chimps, and how when they saw other chimps become afraid of something, they automatically registerred that fear as a permanent one. Even if the item was something as common as a flower or a balloon. Our brains react in the same way commonly, so when we see others bieng afraid of clowns, we too register a fear. It’s noth like Thousands of people all have traumatizing clown experiences as a child…
We fear what is unknown, as a fate. However, if you don’t believe in fate, then you can deduce that all outcomes are unknown, so you should be afraid of everything? Right? Wrong.
Bieng afraid of things unknown is why so many people are afraid of the dark, aliens, ghosts and death.
I myself am afraid of burning my bacon, so this post has ended.
Sure I read somewhere that the traditional clown costume was originally worn by Norwegian murderers or something.
This is true. I also read somewhere that the Vikings originated the pie in the face routine.
Yes, and Jack the Ripper wore a wig 
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back to the clowns tho, here’s an interesting read to (hopefully) set u off on a journey of discovering the roots of clowning
or at least some of them
Does it contradict the Norse/Viking history we’ve suggested here? If so, I don’t want to read it.
u should know me as unconfrontational enough to never do that
this is simply approaching the issue from an italian perspective
some of these concepts did develop simultaneously in different parts of the world
giving credence to the phrase ‘look at those clowns in their UFOs’
if your name is Chicco von Danniken, anyway
not at all. my dad was a clown, and he does magic and juggles. also my sister has been a clown and theyve got god paying gigs. ive dressed a clown myself but just got paid in stares.
so your dad isn’t a viking then??!?
How much does God pay?
Was that on a reality show? Was it a boy or girl clown?
