JessamyEmotional hot spots (LINK)
April 26th 2008 08:12
After doing my blogging rounds, and reading the various entries by my most loved and most despised writers, I came across something truly....average. By someone that's an average, predictable blogger. More experienced than me, definitely, but also....boringly awful. So I thought I'd put my own little, female two X chromosome spin on his tacky, tastless blog.
Sam de Brito has an annoyingly presumptous blog entitled 'All men are liars (except this one)' blog over at The Age. The title alone is enough to give me shivers of anticipation not unlike that when I've eaten something two weeks out of date- vaguely horrified, a token dry retch, and attempt to pretend it didn't happen.
But his latest effort-listing his 'shopping list' of what he requires in a female- is boring, familiar and is something all men do once in their life. I say once because I believe males assess this in their late teens/early twenties, and constantly target the same women of the same age for the rest of their lives. Sam is no exception. He lists his ideal woman as tall, olive skinned, brunette, with blue or green eyes, and congratulations to his avoiding the 'blonde hair' cliche. However, he also says:
"It gets crazy when guys overlook faults in women like stupidity, sociopathic tendencies, selfishness and venality just so they can press those anatomical hot buttons, but such is their power over men."
And that's when it occurred to me that I believe women do the exact opposite thing. Well, sometimes. I mean, give me a music loving, arty, semi-sensitive-yet-still-play s-sports guy with a penchant for occasional happy outbursts, and I'll follow him all the way to Europe and back. I have emotional outbursts, and I will happily overlook some physical downfalls in order to settle for what (I believe to be) is a happy temprement. Much like taking the runt of the litter because you know they'll love you forever for saving them (hey, if Sam can refer to women as 'gals', I can refer to them as puppies).
I'm not saying that I'm not superficial, because I am-to a degree. But my choices in men have sometimes be considered 'borderline' by my girlfriends-an example of these include the guy shorter and skinnier than I with very crooked teeth and sligh squint (but he was funny and provided great conversation).
In all seriousness though, do women have emotional hot spots? And is this any more or less superficial than men's physical hot spots?
Sam de Brito has an annoyingly presumptous blog entitled 'All men are liars (except this one)' blog over at The Age. The title alone is enough to give me shivers of anticipation not unlike that when I've eaten something two weeks out of date- vaguely horrified, a token dry retch, and attempt to pretend it didn't happen.
But his latest effort-listing his 'shopping list' of what he requires in a female- is boring, familiar and is something all men do once in their life. I say once because I believe males assess this in their late teens/early twenties, and constantly target the same women of the same age for the rest of their lives. Sam is no exception. He lists his ideal woman as tall, olive skinned, brunette, with blue or green eyes, and congratulations to his avoiding the 'blonde hair' cliche. However, he also says:
"It gets crazy when guys overlook faults in women like stupidity, sociopathic tendencies, selfishness and venality just so they can press those anatomical hot buttons, but such is their power over men."
And that's when it occurred to me that I believe women do the exact opposite thing. Well, sometimes. I mean, give me a music loving, arty, semi-sensitive-yet-still-play s-sports guy with a penchant for occasional happy outbursts, and I'll follow him all the way to Europe and back. I have emotional outbursts, and I will happily overlook some physical downfalls in order to settle for what (I believe to be) is a happy temprement. Much like taking the runt of the litter because you know they'll love you forever for saving them (hey, if Sam can refer to women as 'gals', I can refer to them as puppies).
I'm not saying that I'm not superficial, because I am-to a degree. But my choices in men have sometimes be considered 'borderline' by my girlfriends-an example of these include the guy shorter and skinnier than I with very crooked teeth and sligh squint (but he was funny and provided great conversation).
In all seriousness though, do women have emotional hot spots? And is this any more or less superficial than men's physical hot spots?
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