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spectralbovine

You Can't Take the-Oh, Sorry, We Took the Sky from You

Jun 04, 2005 23:16

Does anyone have an extra ticket or two for the Houston screening? I stupidly forgot that my brother's going to be at M.D. Anderson this summer (just like I was six years ago...shit, six years ago). And enshanam is ticketless as well. Both also have transportation issues, though I think Kelsey can work something out because she thinks I'm totally awesome ( Read more... )

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kieyra June 5 2005, 04:53:18 UTC

I'll just make two points here:

1) I think lots of television-watching makes people (well, me) raise our attractiveness demands to perhaps unreasonably high levels.

2) Television-watching definitely expanded my ethnic horizons for perceived attractiveness. Because, mmm, Naveen Andrews.

So I guess it's a wash. Insightful? Not so much. Sorry.

spectralbovine June 5 2005, 05:01:12 UTC

No, I think that's a good point. I mean, I watch a lot of movies and television and read magazines and all that, and pretty people are the forefront, so. Totally blaming the media.

And if Naveen Andrews is responsible for making me hotter...cool.

see, my icon keywords are SANSKRIT. CEREMONIAL LANGUAGE OF THE VEDAS. hobviously June 5 2005, 05:13:29 UTC

Me: My cow is looking for a nice Indian girl to date. Hmmph. *I'm* a nice Indian girl.
Ariel: Except for the Indian part...
Me: ...and the nice part...
Ariel: But you really are a girl!
Me: AND I like India! It's like my Thing!

SO THERE, COW.

jennnk June 5 2005, 05:13:45 UTC

I don't think anyone can change what turns them on. It evolves over time, we might not necessarily be attracted to the same "type" at 14 as we are at 24 or 34, but we can't consciously change that. And I think standards of beauty come from a lot of different sources...most would scream "THE MEDIA SAYS ONLY THIN BLONDE BUSTY WOMEN ARE PRETTY," but that's not even necessarily true...thin and busty IS the "model" ideal, but most men, when polled, prefer a little meat on a gal's bones and say a 34-B is ideal. I don't think there's any crime in pursuing people who look opposite of you (I married a Puerto Rican/Ecuadoran mix who looks half African-American in the summer, he gets so dark, while I look like a short, though typical, Scandinavian), though I can understand the issues when it comes to an extremely traditional family like yours. Personally, I think Indian girls (both Native American Indian and India-Indian) are gorgeous, but I prefer darker skin and hair and eyes (hence being attracted to my husband at first).

vandalisimo June 5 2005, 05:14:35 UTC

My best friend is Indian and she's gorgeous and smart and funny and all that jazz. Anyway, she never found Indian men attractive at all and her theory was that she was looking for something different than herself and what she was used to (or what she was expected to want.) She did end up liking a couple of Indian men after awhile, but now she's married to a blonde/blue eyed dude. I think we all tend to be attracted to people who look differently than what we are surrounded by when we're growing up, if that makes any sense. For instance...me? Completely not attracted to Italian men, even when they're supposedly smoking hot.

And I hereby 2nd the hotness of Naveen.

casinobaden13 June 5 2005, 05:23:52 UTC

You know...what I find attractive has no reason to it at all. I don't find myself attracted to a particular race (although, there are some FINE-ASS black men out there) or NOT attracted to a particular race (except I'm not usually a fan of the latino man).

I think if you're wise enough to realize that your views of beauty are skewed, then you're wise enough to grow beyond it. I loves me some skinny boys, I loves me some chubby-huggable boys, I loves me some muscly boys...*shrugs*

I never really thought that Indian men were attractive until I got to college, but that was probably because there weren't any Indian men in my HS (to be brutally honest, there weren't any AnythingButWhite men in my HS). I happen to think that Indian women are a lot prettier then most white women out there. I mean...come on. Aish. She's so beautiful. Kajol. So beautiful.

I guess the message of my comment is this: I don't really have a preference or standard of beauty. I just loves me some cock.

spectralbovine June 5 2005, 13:12:14 UTC

And the cock loves it some you, Lauren. The cock loves it some you.