James Woods’ Nasolabial Lines

In just another measure of how disturbingly Aspie and disconnected from anything entertaining this blog has become, I was asked about James Woods’ nasolabial lines.

As a general rule when anything James Woods has been saying has been placed before me, numerous areas of my brain fire up into high gear as I ponder the genius he’s letting flow forth. The part examining nasolabial lines has not been one of those parts. So I cruised over to do an image search and even more disturbingly, discovered James Woods is an excellent example to highlight what I was talking about. So this blog continues to devolve.

The question began with my assertion that a lot of people who either go homosexual or have a history of traumatic sexual abuse seem to adopt a disgust conformation of their nasolabial lines. Another reader has pointed out that they see this as a double sided sneer of contempt, which is probably a similar emotional response, just directed at people. Before we start, I want to post a previous image comparing the nasolabial lines of Roger Goodell smiling, and Wanda Sykes smiling:

Notice how Wanda’s lines curve markedly, and there is tremendous flexion of the muscles up by the nostrils, causing the nasolabial line at that point to pull up almost horizontal, before curving back and heading down. There is also some chin flexion going on which further pulls the lines down, accentuating the curve. Goodell’s smile consists almost exclusively of muscular contractions occurring above the mouth, and his nasolabial lines are more normal by my standards.

With respect to James Woods, one example which works well here for comparison is Sean Penn. Below will be Sean Penn on one side, with a linear representation of his nasolabial lines below, and James Woods at a similar age, with a linear representation of his nasolabial lines below on the other side:

Now, when I look at this image, I am looking primarily at the nostril area. Sean Penn’s nose and mouth say to me that he is smelling something awful, and can’t stand it. I can almost feel his nostrils closing down, the opposite of flaring, as if to close off the smell. If you look closely at Penn’s nose, there are actually dimples on the outside of his nose just above each nostril, where muscles are closing off the airflow. Put your own fingers there on your own nose, and squinch your nose to close your nostrils off as if smelling something disgusting, and you will feel those muscles contract on your own nose around your nostrils. Imagine how often those muscles are contracting on Penn, that they have developed to the point that they can put visible dimples in the nose exactly where a clothespin might press, if you put it there to block out a bad smell. That is disgust, and there are people who go around all day with that switch flipped in their brain, even absent any specific stimulus precipitating it – and it contaminates and biases every thought they have, whether it is disgust-related or not. A person? Disgusting. An economic proposal? Disgusting.

It is in the rest of the face as well. Sean’s eyes are a little angry. His eyebrows are too. James just has a clearness of focus about him, but no real emotional expression.

I suspect that I am also seeing a flexing of muscles up the entire nose, perhaps closing the airway all the way up the nose, though I can’t really explain why I feel that. I look at Penn, and feel like my entire nose is flexed and braced, almost in anger like a dog snarling, while when I look at Woods, I feel as if my nose is relaxed and not even noticeable. And Penn’s chin is flexed as well, something I associate with frustration mixed with disgust/contempt, as discussed here.

James Woods has no such affect. Here is another pic of him.

As you can see, his nasolabial line actually bends in the exact opposite to a curve of disgust. This is a fun guy who out to have a great time, and bring everybody along with him.

Now it is pretty well known James Woods has Darth Vader, Use-The-Force-level Game. He is well known for zooming around in an X-Wing fighter of fame like a young Luke Skywalker, dropping nuclear penis bombs into vaginal ventilation ducts using solely the power of his mind. It is a fact which is only confirmed by his Google image search results which feature him with young hot women on red carpets all over the world. This might raise the question, what is the difference between him and somebody like Penn or Hefner, and what is that lack of a disgust line telling us about him, given this is a case of possible high sex-drive which doesn’t have the disgust line?

My general feeling of Woods is that he is not a victimizer like Hefner, or Clinton, or Weinstein, and you won’t find women talking about how he hurt them or victimized them, or how unhappy they were when they were with him. I suspect that also speaks to a more K-esque attenuation of the sex drive, to the point he can consider the feelings of others and exhibit psychological empathy. It probably also means when he approaches a young hottie, he isn’t doing so with a desire to hurt them or dominate them like Clinton or Weinstein. He wants to take everyone off on a good time, not dominate others and revel in having it better than their fucked up situation.

Which brings us to what the disgust affect really means. It is associated with hypersexuality, and extreme-r-selected-hypersexuality, aka homosexuality. But it is really a sign of something more. It is a sign of rabbitry. And at its core, rabbitry is evil.

Where gays have the disgust line, I would bet they are victimizer gays who hurt other people wantonly and care only for themselves. Where gays do not have it, I would bet there is probably something different about them compared to their evil, perpetually disgusted associates. Where you see it on heterosexuals, my bet is you will find there are likely more than a few people who got close to them who would swear they are evil incarnate. My guess is disgust lines are, in large part, a mark of disgust with the people who they meet, and that is a seed of evil.

Now disgust lines are not infallible. They can be off. I assume there are normal people who due to simple bone structure, would have such a feature to their face irrespective of who they are. But more often than not they are a good measure. And regardless, they are just triggers for suspicion, which is something you should be feeling whenever you meet new people anyway. So to the extent they trigger suspicion, they are never bad to trigger suspicion.

I like focusing on individual details like the nasolabial line, because they are flags that can trigger your suspicion during the initial meet, when a lot is going on and your amygdala is hitting the afterburner, trying to process a ton is stimuli all at once. At that moment, seeing something that triggers a pause and a recalibration of your suspicion is a useful tool. Don’t use them as absolutes, but they are a great starting point to keep you suspicious and make sure you don’t have one of these tools catch you by surprise.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because shitbaggery is written all over their faces