I’ll just admit to being surprised by this poll result, just as I was surprised recently to discover that many men do seem to notice and like when a woman wears heels.
Personally, I like beautiful. If I had a daughter, I’d want her to be cute up to the point that she was 12, and then switch to pretty or beautiful or something, but that’s the limit of my desire for cuteness in the opposite sex since:
a) I like grown-ass women.
b) I tend to think that a cute face will become a chubby face as we age. Maybe not true, but so it is.
And I think that women in heels just look like they’re uncomfortable and walking awkwardly for no good reason. (Which I could have neglected to have mentioned, but I figure I’m already going to get enough scorn for this post that I may as well finish the thought.)
I’m surprised by the results. To me someone/something “cute” is non-sexual or anti-sexual. As a straight adult male, one thing I look for in a woman is someone to have sex with. She could be pretty or sexy, or not. I think sexy would be it, and to me the term is non-specific (woman doesn’t have to be pretty or beautiful to be sexy).
I am, too. I usually feel I’m a bit irregular in preferring cute. At least, by my definition, anything going for attractiveness seems to go for either beauty or sexiness. Cute is reserved for young people.
It’s actually the fact that cuteness softens sexiness that makes it work for me. Sexiness is often too blunt. Though it probably doesn’t help that I also associate sexiness with all those dour “sexy” models, and cuteness with smiling, happy people.
I voted “beautiful,” but it can be pretty hard to draw a line between those adjectives when you see a particularly attractive woman. And that’s a good thing!
I checked all boxes, but want a write-in option. How about intelligent in addition to any of the appearance based choices. Women can have all of those choices and brains and personality.
I find brains to be very attractive.