# Is Daniel Craig Attractive? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504 "2008-11-19T19:55:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/81 "2008-11-20T17:00:42Z")
> [@Poonther](#): > > Exactly my point, you didn’t ask for clarification, but often it’s given and I’m just curious as to why? Does it make a man more attractive if a straight guy or lesbian finds him hot? Does it make a guy less attractive if only gay guys and straight women find him attractive? If not, then why is it done? Do we even realize we are doing it? Shouldn’t the question of whether someone is attractive be a simple answer regardless of what side of the orientation/gender fence we are coming from? Again I’m just asking out of curiosity and I don’t think it’s a negative to do it or a positive just interesting is all. Also I’ve noticed this a lot here, not just on this thread and have often wondered why. So I asked… I don’t know if this holds true for everyone, but many straight guys are not necessarily able (or willing) to judge handsomeness in other males. So for some of us who are straight males, it is relevant in that Daniel Craig is _so_ handsome that even we, who are normally blind to such things, can recognize what he’s got going for him. I assume that the same sort of idea is in effect in the other threads you’ve seen where people have volunteered their sex and orientation. ---
**Author:** ![Poonther](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Poonther](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poonther)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/82 "2008-11-20T18:31:49Z")
Thanks **Asimovian** for an explanation of how you see it. I understand what you are saying. So then does it make someone like Daniel Craig even more attractive when straight guys think he’s handsome too? Also is it b/c he’s seen as rugged, manly and plays James Bond that it’s “safer” for straight guys to admit that he’s handsome? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/83 "2008-11-20T20:55:09Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I don’t know if this holds true for everyone, but many straight guys are not necessarily able (or willing) to judge handsomeness in other males. So for some of us who are straight males, it is relevant in that Daniel Craig is _so_ handsome that even we, who are normally blind to such things, can recognize what he’s got going for him. > > I assume that the same sort of idea is in effect in the other threads you’ve seen where people have volunteered their sex and orientation. I agree with you on this. Sometimes, sexual preference _is_ a factor. For instance, I have a sister who is very much a lesbian, but says any time Jimmy Smits approached her and asked for some “sack time”, she’d have to give it to him. For me, as a straight woman, it would be Jodie Foster. In fact, over the years I’ve been around these here boards, there have been a number of threads on who you’d be willing to “switch hit” for. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/84 "2008-11-20T21:24:42Z")
His head is too small for his body: he looks like some kind of weird transplant experiment, like you took the head of a small assistant regional manager for a chain of discount carpet stores and grafted it onto the body of a large porn star. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/85 "2008-11-20T21:44:16Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Oh, btw, I looked at the nekkid picks, and believe there should be an addendum to his contract that requires him to be naked in at least 25% of all his screen-time in future films! Seconded. > [@Poonther](#): > > Does it make a man more attractive if a straight guy or lesbian finds him hot? Well, I’m a queer guy with a self-destructive fetish for lesbian-looking lesbians. So, from my perspective, reading that a self-identified lesbian would consider a man gets me all hot and bothered. I appreciate the substantial amount of gratification I get from those kinds of posts. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504/86 "2008-11-20T23:35:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Thank god. I kept thinking, there is not one attractive feature on that man-how could anyone claim him as sexy? Kira Nerys did. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-daniel-craig-attractive/473504.md?page=4)