Any rock star automatically has sex appeal.
I’ve long thought that men are more attracted to physiques and faces, and women are more attracted to abstract ideas. The idea of being rich, the idea of being famous, the idea of being a great athlete or a rock star - these are sexier to women, I think, then being handsome.
Really? Shit. That, along with the nose, were her signature features. Apparently she did it for totally cosmetic reasons, not medical ones. Well, color me disappointed. 
In Googling that, I found out that Ewan MacGregor had a few moles removed from his face as well. That’s a good start.
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You’d like to think so, but I can only speak for myself when I say, I’m attracted to physiques and faces. Witness the fact that I have always dated hot, broke men. Apologies to my husband… he’s hot, and when I met him, he was broke too.
On Sex and the City, none of those four women were very good looking at all. Which I’m pretty sure is intentional: on a show like that, four stunningly beautiful women in New York having various kinds of relationships would only stoke the simmering inferiority complex many (most?) women have about their looks. Far better to have someone like SJP in the lead: “she’s ugly sexy and so fashionable! If I moved to New York and had a thousand pairs of shoes I could be just like her!”
Side note: Mick Jagger’s attractiveness to females notwithstanding, as a guy I have never, ever in my life thought of any woman as “ugly sexy”.
Maybe there would need to be a terminology change for women. You know how some women are referred to as “handsome”? I always thought that was a polite way to describe the female version of ugly/sexy. Like, she’s certainly not pretty, but she’s very well put together, dresses well, has good hair, etc. Know what I mean? Someone like Tilda Swinton, or SJP.
I’m pretty sure most people agree with me that Charlotte was very good-looking. At least that has been my experience in informal polls. And a lot of older guys like the slutty one. She’s not ugly, just over the hill.
Really? Kristen Davis and Cynthia Nixon aren’t attractive? I’m really starting to wonder what woman has a chance in this thread, where Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe were written off as not that sexy.
Read more R. Crumb.
I didn’t say you were crazy, I was just pointing out that you misunderstood what Sex & The City was about. But if you think people in this thread have linked to articles where Sarah Jessica Parker is described as “sexy” or “good looking” then either you’re crazy or I am, because I have just looked back over this entire 4-page thread and did not find any such links.
The first couple of pages of Google hits on “sarah jessica parker” and “good looking” are all either people saying she’s NOT good looking, or pages where the “good looking” was referring to someone other than Sarah Jessica Parker. I also see she was named the “Unsexiest Woman Alive” by Maxim in 2007. “Sarah Jessica Parker is beautiful” gets only 31 unique hits, mostly from people saying that her personality is what makes her beautiful. Not even her biggest fans claim that Sarah Jessica Parker has a classically beautiful face.
This isn’t an “Emperor’s New Clothes” situation. Sarah Jessica Parker is not and never has been famous for having a pretty face. She’s got a good body, she seems like a fun gal, and plenty of people (although not me) admire her fashion sense, but no one is laboring under the mistaken idea that her features are conventionally attractive. But so what? I’m sick of hearing people make a big deal about how ugly Sarah Jessica Parker is, like having a big nose and a long face is some kind of crime. I haven’t particularly cared for any of her work since Ed Wood, but is it really so awful that a woman who doesn’t meet the usual Hollywood standard for good looks managed to become a big star?
This is pretty much my exact view on SJP. No one is saying she’s pretty. Sexy? Maybe, to some. Style icon? Yes, though not to everyone’s taste. A big star despite it all? Yes. What’s the big deal about that? I don’t get it. It’s like people are offended that a non-beautiful woman is the star of a show that has the word SEX in the title.
Re: SJP;
I think that most folks know that her face doesn’t fit the normal ideas of beauty in this society. I think people really underestimate the power of ‘jolie laide’ though. That is some sick power that a woman can have that will bewitch you even though you don’t find her ‘pretty’.
In my culture, (only speaking for my own experiences, of course) being pretty/ugly is a huge thing. The idea that someone’s attitude trumps their looks is a big deal. We call it ‘swag’ or ‘steeze’ and girls that have a ‘certain something’ about them that trumps their looks are called ‘attitude gals’.
Certain things that society frowns upon are actually escalated, (fat ass, big thighs, large hips, gap in the teeth, scars, lazy eye, all have been praised to some degree in our culture, through hip hop, dancehall, etc.)
I guess my point is, I agree with Ruby and Lamia. SJP is not ‘pretty’ to most people, but she ‘got something with her’ as we say, and that something is really attractive to lots of folks.
Re: Marilyn Monroe;
She has all the features that don’t do a thing for me at all. Blonde hair, pale skin, blue eyes, nothing really standout-ish in her features…yet, she still has something. She’s got that ‘something with her’ that is really magnetic. Something in the squint of her eyes, maybe? I have no idea.
What somebody fond in Marilyn Monro, she’s so ordinary
or Renée Zellweger yes she is good actress but she looks like nothing special