His hed is asymmetrical yay

[dreamer_easy]

New Scientist is always full of fascination. Just one issue (23 July) is chocka with stuff which I'd like to rave about - trypanosomes' lazy use of a single promoter for hundreds of genes, a possible cure for IBD using nerve stimulation, that Austrian cardinal (and pal of the Pope) who rejected evolution, yet another study showing that the antidepressants keeping me alive don't actually do anything (but also proof that chronic fatigue syndrome isn't imaginary, news which will not stun any of its many sufferers), etc.

Let me instead talk about the Doctor's head.

Firstly, Christopher Eccleston's remarkable noggin, which would be an ideal candidate for ear shape recognition, as described in that overstuffed issue of NS.

Secondly, the characteristic which David Tennant's incoming bonce shares with Paul McGann's ovary-exploding visage: their faces are both asymmetrical. Have a look at the cover of DWM 359: Tennant's eyes don't quite line up. Now, NS is always running articles about some study or other which shows that symmetrical faces are the most attractive. But what if slight asymmetry adds the spice of interest? Or is finding both gentlemen gorgeous merely another sign of my fathomless perversion?

Comments

[severa.livejournal.com]

I've always found a guy with slightly odd/off features far more attractive and interesting than the perfectly symmatrical. Symmatry is boring.

Like Jack Davenport's squiffy eye.

And as my brother pointed out once: If symmatry is beauty, than spiders ought to be the most attractive animal on the planet, but they're not.

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Not spiders. Sea urchins. ^^

[reveilles.livejournal.com]

Yes, perfectly symmetrical features are a bit boring, but they also make me suspicious of the too-perfect person. If they're too pretty, they're hiding something. Someone with imperfections is somehow more accessible to me.

Though I've wondered for years how Shannen Doherty managed to become a major actress with a face as asymmetrical as hers. I think the viewing public is more accepting of men with interesting faces than with women with interesting faces.

[drox.livejournal.com]

...spiders ought to be the most attractive animal on the planet, but they're not.

Unless you're another spider. Which is how it should be, I guess.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I was watching a documentary about spiders which included stuff about mating, and I was wondering why they haven't become extinct, because if I was a spider and another spider got on me I'd go "Euw a spider!!!!" and flick it away.