are cartoons attractive?
so over christmas break i was hanging out with a bunch of boys one night when they decided that the topic of the evening was going to be "which cartoon character is the hottest?" what followed was a highly amusing conversation/discussion/argument about which cartoon characters these gentlemen thought were the most attractive. so now i'm reading this book "are men necessary?" (answer: yes) and seriously almost spilled my tea when i read the following section: (and all the credit belongs to maureen dowd)
"A friend of mine called after a holiday dinner.
She and the guests had been pondering a conundrum. No, not the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear proliferation. They had been animated by animation. The earthshaking question they considered was: Why are men attracted to female characters, while women are not attracted to male cartoon characters?
It began when one woman at the table said her seventeen year-old stepson found Disney's cartoon heroine Anastasia "hot." The grown-up men at the table all agreed, throwing out names of other cartoon babes, such as Pocahontas and Jessica Rabbit.
The women scoffed that it was impossible to think of a single hot male cartoon character.
"The superheroes, like Superman and Spider-Man, are all wearing leotards, so you've got a Marv Albert panty-hose thing going on there that's very unattractive," said my friend Tammy, recapping the conversation. "And the manly ones are thugs with no necks, like Fred Flinstone. And you couldn't go for George Jetson. It would seem adulterous.
"The cartoon women, on the other hand, have these seductive voices and huge almond-shaped eyes. The animators create the ideal woman. But if a guy fantasizes about Jessica Rabbit, does he think about a cartoon body or a real one?"
"A friend of mine called after a holiday dinner.
She and the guests had been pondering a conundrum. No, not the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear proliferation. They had been animated by animation. The earthshaking question they considered was: Why are men attracted to female characters, while women are not attracted to male cartoon characters?
It began when one woman at the table said her seventeen year-old stepson found Disney's cartoon heroine Anastasia "hot." The grown-up men at the table all agreed, throwing out names of other cartoon babes, such as Pocahontas and Jessica Rabbit.
The women scoffed that it was impossible to think of a single hot male cartoon character.
"The superheroes, like Superman and Spider-Man, are all wearing leotards, so you've got a Marv Albert panty-hose thing going on there that's very unattractive," said my friend Tammy, recapping the conversation. "And the manly ones are thugs with no necks, like Fred Flinstone. And you couldn't go for George Jetson. It would seem adulterous.
"The cartoon women, on the other hand, have these seductive voices and huge almond-shaped eyes. The animators create the ideal woman. But if a guy fantasizes about Jessica Rabbit, does he think about a cartoon body or a real one?"