Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am?

1. For some reason, clowns with stubble are much creepier than clowns without.

   1. Clowns with stubble are supposed to be hobos, so should be abolished in general for being about 75+ years out of date, and because if they were translated to the present day, they would be homeless people caricatures.

      1. I’ve wondered for years if bum clowns are intended to make fun of homeless people….

2. Thank you!

3. I believe that’s a picture of Emmett Kelly, one of the most important comedians of the Twentieth Century (how do the anti-clown crowd feel about Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin?).

   1. (Personal answer) Chaplin and Keaton, who I have not watched much, didn’t have the really grotesque makeup and dress of the stereotypical “clown”. Marcel Marceau didn’t either, that I remember. It’s ones like the Evil Clown of Middletown that set the “anti-clown crown” off.

   2. Keaton and Chaplin were not just clowns but athletes and professional actors. I’d not lump them in with Emmett Kelly (whom I would not term a comedian anyway). But the ones I would run from are the Three Stooges.

4. No clowns. Particularly Clowns For Jesus, which is doubly creepy.

   This cover is peak 1969. They should have made whoever wrote in it pay for a new one.

5. Oh, I remember that book. I never read it but it was a big seller at the college bookstore.

6. Sadly, the author was a Catholic priest who was sued a number of times for sexual abuse of teens.
   http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2005_11_17_Gutierrez_SettlementReached.htm
   I’m surprised the book is still in print.

   1. That explains why they’re afraid to tell, doesn’t it? 🙁

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