oh i meant medical/covid ones. could also consider furry masks and the cat masks that femboys often wear (e.g. to obscure masculine facial structure), which feel cute rather than ‘cool’, though they are more like the natural human face in that they display an expression (“the face is a mask we wear over our skulls”)
Yeah, I meant medical/covid masks imply the wearer is diseased. I would have also believed the cat mask is a medical/covid mask if you hadn’t give a different reason for wearing it, so it has that going against it in terms of coolness. It also has a lack of plausible deniability going against it too. If you’re wearing sunglasses there’s actually a utilitarian reason behind wearing them outside of just creating information asymmetry. If you’re just trying to obscure half your face, there’s no such plausible deniability. You’re just trying to obscure your face, so it becomes far less cool.
oh i meant medical/covid ones. could also consider furry masks and the cat masks that femboys often wear (e.g. to obscure masculine facial structure), which feel cute rather than ‘cool’, though they are more like the natural human face in that they display an expression (“the face is a mask we wear over our skulls”)
Yeah pretty clearly these aren’t cool because they imply the wearer is diseased.
how? edit: maybe you meant just the first kind
Yeah, I meant medical/covid masks imply the wearer is diseased. I would have also believed the cat mask is a medical/covid mask if you hadn’t give a different reason for wearing it, so it has that going against it in terms of coolness. It also has a lack of plausible deniability going against it too. If you’re wearing sunglasses there’s actually a utilitarian reason behind wearing them outside of just creating information asymmetry. If you’re just trying to obscure half your face, there’s no such plausible deniability. You’re just trying to obscure your face, so it becomes far less cool.