# Am I the only woman on the planet who's repulsed by Tom Cruise? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843 "2001-01-26T07:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/41988e/32.png) [@Tequila\_Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/1 "2001-01-26T07:41:59Z")
I keep seeing all these damned posts refering to Tom Cruise, who to be honest, the only thing I find sexy about him is his WIFE! I avoid movies simply ecause he’s in them! Or are there any other “Hot men” you women (or even guys…hey I don’t care…rant away) are told you should lust after but just make you go…“Ewwwwwwwww”? ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/2 "2001-01-26T08:26:50Z")
…I am speechless. How could you possibly not worship the godly hunk of man known as Tom? No, really. How? Just thinking of him makes me weak in the knees. I even saw Days of Thunder. In the theater- multiple times. What’s worse, I actually kind of like it (don’t tell anyone!). I _do_ wish he’d get a haircut- something like in Top Gun or A Few Good Men- but they don’t get any hotter than Tom Cruise for me. As to your question, I actually don’t understand the fuss made over his freaky wife. Perhaps I am biased, but she just grates on my nerves. And she is too damn tall for him! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/3 "2001-01-26T09:24:56Z")
His nose scares me. ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/4 "2001-01-26T09:46:09Z")
His scientology scares me. ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Doll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@Broken\_Doll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Doll)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/5 "2001-01-26T10:16:06Z")
Brad Pitt! Everybody loves Brad Pitt, but I can’t see what’s so attractive about him…I don’t understand all of the fuss. I find him kind of repulsive. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/6 "2001-01-26T10:22:49Z")
Tom Cruise…blah Brad Pitt- nothing special Leonardo DiCaprio…ewwwwww I’m not over impressed by a lot of the movie “hotties”. The ones that I like are people like Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Harrison Ford, and Sean Connery(though he’s looking wicked old lately-I mean, I saw _Finding Forrester_, and dang…) ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/7 "2001-01-26T10:29:17Z")
no, you’re not. ---
**Author:** ![Sapphire\_Bullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@Sapphire\_Bullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapphire_Bullet)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/8 "2001-01-26T11:59:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\*His nose scares me. \*\* > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by oldscratch_ > **His scientology scares me.** well you guys scare me!! [sub]YOU LEAVE MY TOMMY ALONE![/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/9 "2001-01-26T13:23:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Broken Doll \* > \*\*Brad Pitt! Everybody loves Brad Pitt, but I can’t see what’s so attractive about him…I don’t understand all of the fuss. I find him kind of repulsive. \*\* Have to bring in Simpson’s creator Matt Groening’s quote on this: Brad Pitt looks like Jennifer Aniston in a wig. And I think both of them are at best mediocre looking. ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/10 "2001-01-26T13:29:38Z")
I wouldn’t go as far as to say I’m ‘repulsed’ by him, but he certainly does _nothing_ for me. Brad Pitt too, though he may, indeed, repulse me if I thought about him long enough. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/11 "2001-01-26T13:32:13Z")
Yeah, but for some reason I think of Brad as the kinda guy you wouldn’t mind hanging out with… he just seems, I don’t know… cool? 🙂 But Tom? Tom seems effete to me. He looks vacant sometimes, in a Dan Quayle kind of way. He’s nothing special; he’s just _there_. Plus, to me he seems to think he’s above everyone else, whereas Brad exudes more of an Everyman personality (at least I think that’s what he’s exuding… sometimes my nose gets stuffy)… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/12 "2001-01-26T13:38:54Z")
Tom Cruise? Who’s he? ::yawns:: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/13 "2001-01-26T14:31:41Z")
Tom Cruise - my indifference to him is rivaled only by my indifference to the color green. I cannot STAND Kevin Costner. The last thing I really liked by him was No Way Out. I hated Dances with Wolves, Postman, Waterworld, Message in a Bottle, and any other movie he lowered himself to crap on. His voice grates me. His whiny-ness is like fingernails on the blackboard. Whitney Houston’s attraction to him in Bodyguard baffles me. In fact, he almost ruined Field of Dreams for me. Now Kevin Bacon, there’s a Kevin I can handle. He’s too cute! ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/14 "2001-01-26T14:45:25Z")
Tom Cruise looks like a little sucking ferret. I always do that ferret noise when I see him. Blech. Brad Pitt…he’s alright I guess. Doesn’t do anything for me, really. Awful skin. Of course, fans of those guys would probably be a little bewildered at the men I do find attractive…Eric Stoltz (mmmmm), Timothy Hutton, William Hurt. My husband thinks I have awful taste in men and this worries him. ---
**Author:** ![Ziactrice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@Ziactrice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziactrice)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/15 "2001-01-26T15:00:14Z")
I haven’t liked any of the named guys yet. Especially Brad Pitt… I can’t understand what others see in him. In fact, I can’t think of any male young actors I like at this moment. I can tolerate Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, although he doesn’t have the same elan Sean Connery did when he was younger. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jadis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@Jadis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jadis)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/16 "2001-01-26T15:03:03Z")
I’m going to have to jump on this bandwagon as well…although I have to say that, in general, I have a difficult time getting all moist and flustered over public figures. As far as I’m concerned, being famous does **not** automatically equate with being interesting…and I far prefer interesting over pretty. Tom Cruise? Blah…and short. I’m not into short. Brad Pitt? Blah…and pretty skanky in most of his recent movies, I might add. Mel Gibson? Blah…another short one. Kevin Costner? Blah…weak face. Bad director. Leonardo DiCaprio? Please…let’s not even go there. I also don’t get the big hoo-rah over Russel Crowe, either. Is it me? I just don’t see the appeal. ---
**Author:** ![racerx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@racerx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racerx)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/17 "2001-01-26T15:08:42Z")
Cruise? Scary smile. Pitt? Scary smile. Johnny Depp? Now there’s something worth lookin at. ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/18 "2001-01-26T15:21:09Z")
Here’s the thing. I can understand why people consider Tom or Brad or Mel or any of those other guys to be ‘hunky.’ (With the exception of Leonardo…his best movie was ‘Gilbert Grape’ IMHO. And for some reason I get the feeling that he’s trying to be another River Pheonix, who can never be duplicated.) My mom and my sisters go on and on over these men and I can see why…but when it comes to that little spark in me, well they don’t do it. Never have. Frankly, it’s a captivating character that grabs me. I’ve seen the same actor in different movies and found him charismatic in one and boring in another. Again, that’s just my personal tastes. Brad Pitt in ‘12 Monkeys’ does much more for me than Brad Pitt in ‘Legends of the Fall.’ My sister moons over Mel Gibson. I like John Cleese. My mother thinks Harrison Ford is wonderful (well, he is pretty nice). I like Oliver Platt or Alan Rickman. Or Tim Curry. And I know full well that these are not the ‘hunky’ types. Like I said, it’s just me. But, in a pinch I’d take Tim Burton over Tom Cruise any day. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/19 "2001-01-26T15:31:39Z")
Cruise, Pitt, et al.: meh. I’d much rather have Alexander Siddig. Or the guy who played Vince in the real Queer as Folk. Or Richard Gere, sans gerbil. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843/20 "2001-01-26T16:30:59Z")
> [@](#): > > Tom Cruise looks like a little sucking ferret. I always do that ferret noise when I see him. Blech. As a ferret owner, I’m offended. Ferrets are cute and entertaining. Tom Cruise is a short man with a big nose and a weird religion. No thanks. Leonardo DiCaprio is a little bitch. Somehow I can’t develop a crush on someone who is prettier than I am. Call me crazy. Now, Ben Browder, on the other hand - rrrowr! (Like you’re all surprised to hear that from me, right?) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-only-woman-on-the-planet-whos-repulsed-by-tom-cruise/51843.md?page=2)