I was musing about how it appears to me that a lot of guys do seem to go for the Pamela Anderson type, but how there’s rarely a woman who wants to look like that. So I was wondering if some of the straight people care to list some of the people they would like to look like or whose looks they admire who are of the same sex as they are. Gay people can list people of the opposite sex.
There are going to be lots of actors, musicians etc. listed, so maybe this belongs to Cafe Society (mods feel free to move it there if that fits better), but I’m more interested in what sort of looks are deemed attactive when the whole “sex” thing is left out of the equation (up to a point as IMO no one is 100% straight of gay) and how different the list would be from a normal list of heartthrobs than a discussion about the attractiveness of certain actors, musicians as such.
Attracted to isn’t the right word, but these are the men I’d choose to look like if I had the choice - Pierce Brosnan or Harrison Ford, maybe Patrick Stewart…
I’d have to say Catherine Zeta-Jones or Gwen Stefani. Completely different I know, but I think they both have that old Hollywood-style glam going on and I love it.
Given the first and last names on your list, I’m guessing you really enjoyed the movie “The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, which features both of those actresses nude. One of my favorite movies, by the way, and two of my favorite women.
Straight male here: I’ll second Harrison Ford and Pierce Brosnan and add Sean Connery. I like their ‘rugged good looks’, though perhaps Brosnan is a little too ‘pretty’. I think it would be nice to have those features and they are admirable, if not quite attractive to me.
I hereby nominate Sean Connery as the Man I Hope To Resemble When I Am His Age.
I guess Tom Cruise would be the one I wish I could have looked like in high school and college; it strikes me that a guy who looked like that would have to beat them off with a stick, as the saying goes.
But seriously. Maybe “attractive” was putting it absolutely the wrong way. I’m not really looking for the people straights have a gay fantasy crush on or vice versa. Just what you think is a good looking man/woman from an “objective” aesthetic perspective, rather than a “I want to smooch this person” kind of perspective.
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Salma Hayek. They both have some serious curves in a stick-thin Hollywood. I would love to look like either of them, but especially Salma. I think I indentify with her because we have somewhat similar body shapes (though she is much more curvey and attractive!). Sadly, my husband considers her “fat.”
