Why are some scaredy cats afraid of clowns? Did they get affected by the Stephen King movies It or some other movie you can think of with killer clowns?
There is also a movie called Clown from 2014. It is just a movie meaning it is fake but some people believe what they see on the screen.
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You must watch too much TV. Watch out for the Insane Clown Posse.
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I have heard of coulrophobia, (fear of clowns). 🤡 😨 The fear of clowns dates back to John Wayne Gacy, the killer clown of the 1970's. He murdered a little over 30 young men and boys. When Stephen King's It (1990) miniseries was released, more people viewed clowns as creepy people. I know clowns are supposed to be funny. Any person with a rational mind who sees a clown walking by at night will be like, WTF? In a sense, it gives birth to fear.
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People - at least some people - have phobias. If you've ever met someone who has a phobia - like a girl I knew who had a phobia for (against?) spiders - you realize that their fear really is **unreasoning**. They can't help it. They can't explain it. They can't (by a simple act of will) overcome it. They're terrified, no matter what the circumstances. (I had a plastic halloween spider - obviously fake - and even so she was simply terrified. And not appreciative...) *** The unreasoning fear (phobia) of clowns, I think, dates back well before any (of the many crappy) Stephen King movies. But regardless: if it's a phobia, it's an unreasoning fear. I'm not sure what it takes to overcome a phobia, but I know it takes more than a silly plastic spider and a smile...
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Often times, criminals dress as clowns to serve the dual purpose of intimidating their victims and obfuscating their identity.
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You are right in that part of the reason is the way they are portrayed in books and movies. If you really want to know the reasons read this: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-weird-reason-were-afraid-of-clowns/#:~:text=Coulrophobia%2C%20or%20the%20fear%20of,a%20lack%20of%20focused%20research. But I suspect you just wanted to call out and make fun of people who are afraid of clowns. At any rate I enjoyed learning about it. However, the fear of clowns far predates the movie images, they just perpetuated the idea. Here is some history of the fear of clowns: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-and-psychology-of-clowns-being-scary-20394516/
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