He had me on the floor!
October 8th 2006 10:08
What do women actually want in a partner? Magazines will go to the enth degree to find out exactly the qualities that attract a female…this is because they use those same qualities to attract their readership. For example, humour is the most exploited quality. "Hamish Blake: A man's opinion" column epitomizes this with his all so funny "manisms" e.g. Blake on huge hats, "To you it's 50's chic, but to us it looks like a localised solar eclipse," Cosmopolitan, October '06 issue. Magazines depict humour as an attractive quality through this young, attractive, successful, male columnist…thus females are cultured into believing that the ultimate attractive quality is humour…when it is in fact the vessel the humour comes in that we will desire as a partner. This is precisely why women never know what they want until they find what they don't want -that is, Mr. Chuckles, and figure he's not all he's "cracked up" to be. Humour is the new "tall, dark and handsome": The statement that epitomizes my argument is "I just want a guy that will make me laugh". This is the line most women reel off, it is politically correct as it allows you to come off as sounding economically, socially and culturally liberal with the allusion of superiority as you, assumingly, do not care about this "barrel of laughs'" appearance!...and given that stereotypically anyone that is any funny is "unattractive" (magazine standards) e.g. Magda Zubanski, Jerry Seinfeld, Rosie O'Donnell, Ray Romano, Ben Stiller etc….this makes you a REALLY good person. This is usually a completely self-hedonistic statement we use to make ourselves feel like a "good" person, and for others to believe it. The truth is that, we all don't want to be in stitches twenty-four hours a day, but we do want a sexy partner…humour isn't sexy, but desiring a good sense of humour is. This is because someone that desires the quality of humour above all in a partner must have the aforementioned liberal qualities…now that's sexy! So even though, women's magazines portray humour as sexy, this is only so due to the sexiness of the vessel of which it is delivered…much like pictures of models in bikini's…getting your own Woody Allen might not be exactly the same…this is, trying the same bikini on in the overly well lit change room. Yes, superficiality is out and political correctness is in…but just like fashion, it's an illusion….and just like fashion, we all just want to make ourselves look good!
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