The one where I really like White Collar.
So far, any positive comments I've seen about White Collar - including my own - have made a point of saying that it's brainless (if extremely pretty) fun. But I begin to wonder exactly what we mean by that.
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
I mean, it is tv, which is usually not your high water mark for intellectual stimulation, and by virtue of its very premise, White Collar has ( Read more... )
But now I think about it, her husband keeps his hair fairly short, so perhaps she's been immunized against the charms of Magic Hair. How sad!
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Any more handsome or chiseled or whatever, and I'd probably like the look of him less! But as it is? I APPROVE.
Hee.
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meeeee toooooo. And most of my friends do not understand this at all.
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Viva la cuteness unconventional!
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(I had the biggest crush on Harry Kim, by the way. It was ridiculous.)
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Oh you AND me AND valancy_s! They were always doing such horrible things to him. He was always the one getting infected or kidnapped or threatened, and he was such a dear, LOL.
Clearly we all three like our Henry Tilney, too. ;o9
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Henry Tilney is easily the Austen hero it would be the most fun to meet. He's not the swooniest, perhaps--but swooning is overrated, as Austen might say: "Beware of swoons, dear Laura....Run mad as often as you chuse, but do not faint."
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This is intriguing. I have to think of my categories. Because I really can't separate physical attractiveness from personality and charm... not to say that I have to like someone to find them attractive, just that their features need to be enlivened by some kind of charisma or quirkiness (is this perhaps why Bryce never did it for me?) or I'm left cold.
Do your categories apply to real-life crushes or just actors?
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When I think back on the guys I've had a thing for they are really all over the map, skinny to built, blonde to black hair, little nose to big nose, blue eyes to brown eyes, whitest of white boys to Asian boys. But there is a certain set of attributes I'm often drawn to: big dark eyes, dark curly or wavy hair, contrasting paleness, long lean build. (Zachary Levi would be the latest instance of this pattern.) I put this down to my having imprinted on Matthew Broderick at a very young age. However, it's also weird, right ( ... )
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A few years back, my friend Brady, who is a science magazine kind of guy, told me he'd read about a study that showed people tend to be attracted to others who look just enough like them, but not too much like them, if that makes any sense. People who looked as if they could be, say, first or second cousins. The theory was that we have an evolutionary drive for self-preservation, so we're programmed to seek out potential mates just different enough from ourselves so as not to degrade the gene pool, but to do it with an unconsciously narcissistic twist. 'Cause it's our own genetic material we instinctively want duplicated, and our cousins are the nearest relatives (and the ones who shares the most genetic material in common with us) with whom it is safe to procreate.
I guess there are a lot of married couples of my experience who do like as though they could be related to one another... Though there are plenty of exceptions, too, of course ( ... )
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