September 3, 2008
Beauty Question
I keep hearing people say that Sarah Palin is good looking. Do they mean now? And compared to what–John McCain? Jesus, maybe I need new lenses, but she doesn’t do it for me. I just can’t get past thoughts of dog sleds I guess. And here’s another question: how much of the way a person is (voice, laugh, intellect, and so on) tends to interfere in a serious way with what your eyes are telling you about a person’s beauty? I have to say that sort of thing comes into play for me big time. I have a really hard time thinking, for instance, that anybody who decided to be a Republican could be beautiful. When I think of Laura Bush, for instance, I think of those standing signs with a slot that one rests one’s chin in for the purposes of picture taking….
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Before her speech tonight, treat yourself to a couple/three drinks, then judge her physical attractiveness…
Oh - and imagine it’s very, very cold.
Scenic, but cold.
I’m glad you asked this, because I don’t see it, either. I’m quick to praise beauty (male or female), but I’ve been perplexed by all of the declarations of Palin’s hotness. She looks to me like she stepped out of an ad for EyeMasters.
I feel capable of addressing this.
First the general.
I tend to think of female attractiveness in four categories: pretty, beautiful, handsome, hot.
(This is not a spectrum, mind you, just categories.)
A woman can be beautiful and handsome. Or beautiful and hot. I think it’s pretty hard to be pretty and hot. For some reason, to my eye, those don’t necessarily overlap. It’s something to do with the sexuality of womanhood: a real woman isn’t pretty, a real woman is sexual / hot.
With my epistemology out of the way, I would say that Sarah Palin is beautiful and hot or handsome and hot.
She’s definitely hot.
But now to the second part of the equation, and you touch on this, Daryl.
The older I get, and the more I realize how much religion and conservative politics have fucked up this country, it’s very difficult for me to imagine a woman who buys into either of those systems as attractive. It serves as a signal of mental deficiency. A darwinian warning system that says stay the fuck away.
Have fun responding.
…now imagine it’s closing time, say..oh, 3:00 AM.
And it’s cold outside. Did I mention that?
cold outside at 3 am is something I can get behind.
She has several of the lamer outward signifiers of attractiveness. Also, her stylist, I think, has committed to the new Stripper-Who’s-Going-to-Law-School line from Talbot’s.
Perhaps I am not a man after all.
“Ohhhh gAhshhhh–it’s getin a lil Nippy owet here taNight Ain it?” I’m sorry, hot or cold, it still doesn’t get me excited. And we’re not talking erectile dysfunction here. Another way of saying she doesn’t call the meeting to order, I guess.
Here’s a nice shot of her. She looks better with bears and crabs.
Who doesn’t look better with bears and crabs?
I hear beaver is big up there too.
I see “Realtor”.
Can’t put my finger on whether she works for Remax or Coldwell Banker, but I’m quite sure I’ll see her this next Sunday afternoon shoving an “Open House –>” sign in the median and releasing the sad, half-filled balloons. She’s a good realtor, but she’s not good enough for an assistant that can handle the grubbier aspects of the job. It’s been weighing her down.
I do hope it’s for the one down the street that just went on the market…been dying to get into that place. I’m crossing my fingers it’s an open floor plan.
I love all y’all.
this is fake but has a certain oh I don’t know what.
If I recall correctly, wasn’t she only the runner-up in the Miss Alaska contest?
So even back when she was in her prime she was second best.
It’s the glasses…well, for me. Dark-rimmed “smart girl” glasses are like beauty MSG, enhancing whatever good qualities are there and adding a certain flavor of their own. Should I ever end up with a girl who where’s them, it’s gonna be awkward conversation that first night. “Oh, everything else can come off, but those should stay on. I want you to be able to, uh, see me…”
On a related note, a girl I knew in high school was the youngest delegate at the 2004 RNC. Pretty girl; a photo of her even got flattering tongue-in-cheek treatment by the BBC. Still, seeing that photo was a bit bittersweet. Good for her, I thought. She’ll make some conservative, pro-gun, WSJ-reading Republican a beautiful wife. But not me.
Wow. She has quite a pair of tatas.
This has been pointed out to me. In truth, though, my eye is more drawn toward her profile. I’m attracted to girls with a well-defined jaw line. Perhaps because genetics gifted me with something of a parabolic curve from chin to chest. Gotta put back into the Dresser line what nature is taking away.
Hotness is as hotness does.