But surely I can't be the only one of around my age who had the hots for Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman (and thought Jane Curtin was pretty cute), can I?
Or does "witty" in the quotation only refer to making use of the cutting side of wit, not folks who use all the various aspects of wit?
I think it ties into men being intimidated by intelligent women. Look at the "sex symbols" today. Do any of them stand out to be particularily witty or intelligent?
I think the smarter you are, the more you are attracted to intelligence over appearance. And now that I think about it, I understand why I don't like personal sites or ads. I don't really care that you are a fit 6'2, SWM that likes long walks on the beach and live music. That's secondary to your personlity and intellect. People rarely write witty or intelligent profiles so I have little interest in them.
Er ... being a bit out of tune with pop culture despite watching too much television, I'm not certain who today's sex symbols are supposed to be. For example, I always notice Tina Fey, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Alyson Hannigan, Emily Procter, Pauley Perrette, Emily Deschanel, and Michaela Conlin ... but I don't know whom the entertainment industry wants/expects me to think of as a sex symbol, nor whom "most ordinary folks" are drooling over. Admittedly all would be hot based on appearance alone (they are, after all, actresses working in television), but I don't know which of them are considered "sex symbols" rather than merely beautiful in popular opinion.
"I think the smarter you are, the more you are attracted to intelligence over appearance."
Hmm. Makes sense. And from my list above, there are some whose characters I'm attracted to more than the actresses themselves -- so their writers have something to do with it -- and some who have also seemed very attractive to me on late-night talk shows, obstensibly portraying themselves.
Goodness knows I'm capable of noticing (and being distracted by) "eye candy" around me, but (in general) I'm not attracted to them any more than I am to a sunset, a pretty cat, or a beautiful flower, until I get a sense of Who They Are under that skin.
Hmm. I would find Amy Sedaris either ignoreable or grating, except that when I've seen her on talk shows she has made me laugh -- by saying witty things and thinking quickly on her feet, not just by reciting stock comedy tropes -- and that makes her kinda hot.
So maybe I'm not (merely) strange, just in "the wrong intelligence-demographic"?
I think it ties into conservatives being intimidated by humor, which in turn ties into the conservative fear of men being intimidated by intelligent women, which ties into a Gordian Knot that only a Democrat can undo...
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Or does "witty" in the quotation only refer to making use of the cutting side of wit, not folks who use all the various aspects of wit?
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I think the smarter you are, the more you are attracted to intelligence over appearance. And now that I think about it, I understand why I don't like personal sites or ads. I don't really care that you are a fit 6'2, SWM that likes long walks on the beach and live music. That's secondary to your personlity and intellect. People rarely write witty or intelligent profiles so I have little interest in them.
Life is cruel for us intelligent blondes. ;)
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"I think the smarter you are, the more you are attracted to intelligence over appearance."
Hmm. Makes sense. And from my list above, there are some whose characters I'm attracted to more than the actresses themselves -- so their writers have something to do with it -- and some who have also seemed very attractive to me on late-night talk shows, obstensibly portraying themselves.
Goodness knows I'm capable of noticing (and being distracted by) "eye candy" around me, but (in general) I'm not attracted to them any more than I am to a sunset, a pretty cat, or a beautiful flower, until I get a sense of Who They Are under that skin.
Hmm. I would find Amy Sedaris either ignoreable or grating, except that when I've seen her on talk shows she has made me laugh -- by saying witty things and thinking quickly on her feet, not just by reciting stock comedy tropes -- and that makes her kinda hot.
So maybe I'm not (merely) strange, just in "the wrong intelligence-demographic"?
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