Is this a gender thing?

[elettaria]

You know how some people will take off their glasses during conversation, most often for emphasis? Has anyone else noticed that this seems to be a predominantly male practice? The only time I've ever noticed a woman do it is President Roslin in Battlestar Galactica, and I can't think of any women I've seen do it in real life, while I've seen umpteen men do this, both in real life and in films. If you wear glasses, do you do it yourself? I don't, but then I'm just about into severe myopia, so I never wander around without my specs on and have no desire to make life suddenly foggy.

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Comments

[finnygan.livejournal.com]

Have you considered as well whether people with myopia or people with hyperopia do it, and what the gender differences on that is? I don't know about this, but I'd find it more likely that people with hyperopia took off their glasses when speaking to someone as it would make less of a difference to their ability to focus on the person? It could be worth taking into account, though I have no idea how to actually go about that.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Yes, I said that above. I've also realised that at least one of the men I've known to do this was long-sighted and didn't need to wear his glasses all the time. For me, things start blurring about an inch away from the end of my nose (and are difficult to focus on closer than that) and I honestly can't imagine my vision being any different to that. I have no idea whether there's a gender difference with myopia vs. hyperopia. I know that hyperopia tends to crop up and get worse with increasing age, though.

Am I really the only one who's noticed this trend in film? It's incredibly common.