Quarries and Corridors

practicalandrogyny:

deactivated-2012:

Two pictures with the exact same face.
But, in one photo you see a girl and in the other one - a guy.

The fact is that this face was created on computer by mixing male and female face features, which gave this androgynous face. With a change of contrast, our brain recognizes the face on the left as being a female one, while on the second photo, where contrast is higher, our brain recognizes it to be a male’s face. For me, this is the best optical illusion of the century.

Is this true? I see them both as androgynous…

Apparently I’ve ‘broken’ my ‘innate’ gender perception sense to the point when I see an androgynous face as actually androgynous and need more cues than that to judge what gender the person is actually presenting… I shouldn’t be that surprised though, I’m quite often the only one who thinks someone else is androgynous when others have a clear gender reading.