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femmenietzsche:

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femmenietzsche:

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When you visualize the Overton window, do you picture it widening up and down or left and right (or something else)?

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existentialterror:

Roughly constant size, sliding in various directions (right, left, diagonally, etc) on a wall. Very House of Leaves.

a-point-in-tumblspace:

Constant size, sliding left, always left

holomanga:

Vertical, like the image on the Wikipedia page.

bpd-anon said: up and down

\nshacklesburst said: a gaping hole that gets bigger, basically

eww

\neaglesnotforks said: Left and right

\neternalfarnham said: up and down

\nitsbenedict said: left and right

akaltyn said: left right like \u00a0box stretching in two directions

That\u2019s kind of how I see it as well. Well, actually I picture one of those quartile graphs you learn about in high school:

The box is the Overton window and the whiskers are the fringe opinions, and all of the elements can slide around relative to each other.

Anyway, based on this small sample no one visualization predominates, and there were more non-standard answers than I expected.

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