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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2011-04-09 03:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #1558 ]


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(Anonymous) 2011-04-09 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Not OP, but I sort of get their point of view. It's often a story about how a good-looking girl will find a guy who may be plain/boring/average-looking but ~amazing on the inside~ and rarely the other way around, and honestly for me, looks are important. Not the most important thing, but they're what will attract me at first. Personality will be what makes me stay.
tl;dr Yeah sure, it's nice to have someone with a nice personality but man, can't a boring girl get it on with a stud who is ALSO pretty nice? /shallow anon is shallow

(Anonymous) 2011-04-09 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
...Except that's usually the way the story goes. Average girl lands sex god of a man, they fall in love and live happily ever after.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-09 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Where are you living? I've only seen that happen a couple times in movies, and never in real life.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-09 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Er, what's one example except for maybe Lauren and Puck on Glee? It's almost NEVER like that; it's almost always the other way around. Media is absolutely glutted with average or even ugly guys and the super hot chicks who love them. Ditto old men and the young hot chicks who love them.

Mind you, I don't particularly want a ton of stories that gender swap this because I think it's just stupid to begin with, but it reinforces the message that women are completely defined by their looks and that all guys regardless of looks, personality, etc. DESERVE a super hot girl. I think it leads to a ton of anger when real life guys realize supermodels won't fall all over them everywhere JUST for being men, too. The conclusion usually being that women are vicious and horrible because scores of supermodels aren't sleeping with them.

(Anonymous) 2011-04-09 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it leads to a ton of anger when real life guys realize supermodels won't fall all over them everywhere JUST for being men, too. The conclusion usually being that women are vicious and horrible because scores of supermodels aren't sleeping with them.

I've seen this attitude. Completely disgusting.

[identity profile] msloserrific.livejournal.com 2011-04-09 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't usually see that, though there are examples (Hairspray, for one).
There are some movies when the average girl nabs the hot guy, but in many cases, the girl isn't "ugly" or even "average", rather she's just described that way or just needed a makeover montage.

However, there always seems to be a movie/tv show where the average/not-that-attractive guy gets with the hot chick who is supposed to be out of his league. There's even a trope (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/UglyGuyHotWife) for it, but examples off the top of my head include: Superbad, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, Transformers