fear of clowns: real or imaginary?

fear of clowns or coulrophobia is considered by the psychological community to be an imaginary condition that is treatable but i so disagree and think there is really something to fear about clowns...

how do you feel about this vitally important issue?

 

If it's an imaginary condition why would treatment be warranted at all?

 

i love clowns, minus the ones the look like they'll kill and eat me

 

because some people can't unimagine and then become trapped by their imaginations

 

I would prescribe a placebo to cure an imaginary condition.

 

I am only afraid of imaginary clowns.

 

Can't sleep, clowns will eat me.
Can't sleep, clowns will eat me. :uhoh2:
Can't sleep, clowns will eat me. :stunned:

*rocks back and forth* :hysterica

 

I think the generation that started fearin clowns only arrived with the advent of the movie IT - I certainly am not at all afriad of them!

 

some of what clowns symbolise is indeed truely sinister (and i mean that in the common usage rather then "left handed" as it origeonaly ment) and threatining.

it is a superficial pasting of pretend happiness over anything and everything behing which anything and everything can and sometimes does lurk.

not so much the clown as an individual, but rather the whole concept and what it represents, are truely and ligitimately something to fear.

in traditional societies without formal hierarchal structure 'clown societies' were the 'cops'. that is when the only way to get people to behave themselves and not hurt each other was to frighten them into doing so, well the people who took on the job of doing this, and their internal organization, was/were called 'clown societies'.

i don't thing these two concepts are entirely unrelated. the painted circus clown represents in many ways a pretense of sugar coating tyranny.

in many ways the pretense of sugar coating, of what it hides and the dangers of being uninformed of reality, this whole bussiness of doing this to children is supposed to be a kindness and protecting them, then also, the whole appearance thing is to be a bit bizzaar and for children this is like a confrontation with the unknown, and because it is in a sense loud and not gently invigingly to be explored, well that's how all that gets imprinted in the mind, may even be at the root of fear of mystery and the unknown.

so there is definately a wrongness at the root of dominant cryptochrister culture that the painted mask clown face represents. comes to represent do to it's modern day cultural context.

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lol.... I was thinking that too!

Ever since I watched Stephen King's IT movie, as corny as this sounds, clowns now are a bit eerie.

And I've always been terrified of Ronald McDonald, don't ask me why.

 

But when I fell over I just broke my leg and got a hemmorage in my head! HA HA HA!!!

 

anyone in any sort of mask pursuing business with small children is automatically suspect to me.

 

I will probably be flamed for bringing this topic back up, but do what you will.

I am new to this and this is Random thoughts, and I was thinking about how much I hate clowns and did a search instead of just putting up a new thread.

So that said, ............I hate clowns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay random thought shot out of my head, for a while that is.........til they haunt my thoughts both awake and in Dreamland....and come after me..............aaaaaaaaaaaaaghhhhh! Clowns! There they are! RUN!

Anyone else?

 

Personally... I'm not afraid of clowns... but I do find them creepy. Who even thought of dressing up in some crazy costume and oversized shoes with a bunch of paint of their face.... sounds kinda creepy to me... like some serial killer.

 

The kid's clown in Poltergeist was pretty scary.

 

I don't really get what's so scary about clowns, personally. I just find them to be pretty annoying.

I don't know. Who's to say if ANY fears are real or imaginary? I don't get how one fear (in this case, fear of clowns) is any less of a fear than something else (for example, fear of heights). Fears are all relative, and they differ from person to person. I don't see how you can "disprove" a certain fear without attempting to "disprove" others.

 

They don't scare me, they makeme angry for some reason. I want to punch them until their little red noses fall off and their tears wash away the greasepaint. And I'm a peaceful man. So this troubles me.

 

The MacDonalds clown is a fowl creation. Infact all clowns are, really dislike them. No fear though

 

You mean chickens created the arteriosclerosis jester?!!???!?

 

Wasnt John Wayne Gacy a clown?