It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of “the fair sex” to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged race.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Me, I like that women are those things. Broad hipped especially, very nice.
Men smell good. Most of them, anyway. I like the deeper voices of men.
I agree with purplehorseshoe, eating with or feeding a healthy man is more fun than eating with or feeding a food obsessed girly-girl.
I like that men don’t have boobs. There’s a nice solid place for me to rest my head and still see their face, with no fatty mounds in the way.
I like shoulders a lot. My roommate, who I would never fuck in a million years, has shoulders like an ox yoke. It’s his job to clean the house. I could watch those shoulders clean the house all day.
I do like me some cock too.
I like how men get into fights with their friends and are just “whatever” about it. My business partner said something mean to me over a year ago and I am still sore about it. My brother got into a tiff with my business partner a couple weeks ago, over a much bigger thing, and they are just fine now. I think my crush-friend gets in fights with his best friend and his roommate like every other day. But they are fine.
Eeew, I HATE how most men smell. I really notice, if I’m on a packed sweaty commuter train, a faint smell of sperm. I’m not kidding… particularly beefy (not fat) men, even when they’re clean, smell vaguely of sperm when they sweat. YUUUCK!!!
Wow, SanVito, I’m so sorry. If I could smell that I’d consider a little vick’s vapo rub on my nose everyday.
I kinda like men with really short hair. Petting their heads is like velvet. One of my friends keeps her son in a buzz-cut, and I always have to remind myself not to pat his head when I see them.
This made me laugh more than it probably should have.
I like the outward appearance of calm most men seem to manage in a crisis. I don’t know if they’re truly calm or if it’s a facade, but it’s reassuring nonetheless.
Arms
Chests
Beards, and then also, impossibly smooth shaven faces.
Someone else mentioned buzz-cuts…I love the suede-y feel of a buzz cut or shaved head that is just barely grown out.
Logical thinking-sometimes it can be infuriating as well, but I seem to be drawn to super-logical men and I tend to be more of an emotional thinker, so it balances out and helps when there are problems to solve. I think 2 emotional thinkers would be disastrous.
The main thing I like about the gender I’m attracted to (girlz) is that they swell outward from approximately navel latitude on down to hips, and in between them there’s this beautiful perfectly symmetrical V shape that the crease of their legs makes. It looks fantastic when they’re wearing jeans, for instance.
More generically, they come in really nice shapes.
I don’t believe in innate personality differences and behavioral differences. They may exist, I don’t mean I actively believe that they do not exist, it’s a more passive belief, I do not harbor the belief that they do, in fact, exist. There’s enough cultural and social stuff that could explain the differences that are so readily observable.
I like dozens of things about the observable personality and behavioral differences exhibited by the gender I’m attracted to. I’ve always admired their gender for caring, for being better and more responsible members of whatever group they belong to, for being warmer (as others have said) and more open and receptive to people in general, at least as long as they are in a situation where they can feel safe. I like the way they are not generally belligerent or short-tempered or violent (comparing them to the only other gender in town) and I like their longer attention span which leads to deeper awareness on average, although some guys who become relevantly curious can be very aware and interesting to talk to.
I’d have said the above as an 8 year old (OK perhaps an attenuated list). I considered myself capable of keeping up, of competing with those girlfolk. I did not then believe that being male put me at an intrinsic disadvantage at doing well in these areas of life. If girls can proudly acknowledge being tomboys and taking the boys on at their own game, surely I can with equal pride acknowledge being a sissy? (Well I’m sorry, but it’s the best word I’ve managed to find).
Y’all don’t get “innate credit” for characteristics that sociological happenstance has rewarded you for exhibiting while ignoring or punishing guys for manifesting. But I’m really really glad that so many of you are like that! (Insofar as yours is the gender that sends me & all).
Oh yeah and kudos for feminism. All the 'tude shown in this post is derivative. The passion’s real enough but y’all showed me how.
Actually, what’s wrong with this answer? One of the things I love about my girlfriend is that she always looks like she is secretly getting away with something. I’m not sure what it is…but I suspect that it won’t be in my best interests.
Boobs, female genitals (I know some people will be offended if I use the word that I actually want to use, and ‘vaginas’ is inaccurate), soft skin, smelling ‘right.’
That sounds so shallow and in a way it is, but I’ve met numerous men that I really get on well with and could have a great relationship with, and I’ve tried to many times, but they just have the wrong bits. Yes, yes, yes, the person within is important, but we’re talking about a sexual relationship here, not friendship.
I know TONS of women who would only qualify on part 1 of that, and I know tons of men who’d get all but point 1.
Smith, it was an example of something that’s outwardly a compliment but (would usually be) actually a criticism. In the case you describe, it isn’t. Another example would be" Men can act however they want and not care about others’ feelings". Outwardly a compliment but most people who say that would be criticising men.