I wasn’t going to say anything, but yes, very relevant.
If I eer had reason to doubt your gayness before, I wouldn’t after reading that list.
I found your old thread on this very topic, where I ( somewhat ) disagreed :D.
I really am not voting on her prettiness or non-prettiness, since what I consider attractive clashes with almost everyone, and therefore is useless as a valid opinion…but… I gotta say that symmetrical is not a word I would use to describe Drew Barrymore.
This is not exactly symmetrical. In fact, I think the lop-sided smile is a part of her charm.
I am always fascinated by people’s ideas of attractiveness. I think the jolie laide plays a part in SJP’s ‘prettiness’, but I also agree with those that say it is her personality.
It is that certain something. In the ghetto, we call it ‘steez’. It is something about you that is magnetic, regardless if your body is perfect or if your face is symmetrical.
Outside the ghetto, we call it ‘It’.
Yeah, that thread is why I said I knew people would disagree with me. For me, Claire Danes falls in that same category in my mind with Justin Timberlake-- if they weren’t famous, you wouldn’t look twice at them. They are no more attractive than the average person in their age group, only they have money/fame, professional stylists, and the time to work out extensively. Sometimes, Danes looks really pretty, other times she looks like a man. Imagine if she didn’t have all the help?
Whenever Claire Dane is supposed to play a raving beauty, like in Stardust or Romeo + Juliet, it slightly of harms my viewing of the movie because I can’t accept the premise. It’s another de gustibus non est disputandum moment, I guess. She works for me in Shopgirl and My So-Called Life because she is supposed to be average or maybe a little homely in them.
I’m given to understand that a similar cognitive dissonance affects people’s enjoyment of SatC, because they can’t believe that SJP as Carrie Bradshaw can have so many hot men chasing her. I think it’s more her charisma and attitude that cause her to be attractive. I wouldn’t have watched the show if I didn’t find SJP as Carrie immensely charming, though I don’t know how that would translate if I were a man to being attracted to her.
happywaffle, what are you doing out there? Get back in this ghetto, and get the collards on the stove! It’s nearly dinnertime.
I would agree with you. Claire Danes is absolutely an attractive girl, but hardly a ravishing beauty. Justin doesn’t do much for me either.
Another one that varies from somewhat plain to completely stunning when made up is Isabella Rossellini. Compare this picture to say for example…this one. When she’s done up, she is one of the most beautiful women in the world.
Heh. Makes me think of this fellow student back in university in Texas. He was a blind gay man and really into Barbra Streisand. If things ever got boring, one of us would be sure to refer to Streisand as a “no-talent bitch” within his hearing. Man, that was always good for a couple hours’ excitement. 
Unfortunately, being “done up” these days means being computer enhanced. The flawless women you see in magazines don’t exist as real people. Pounds are shaved off. Skin imperfections are removed. Hairlines are altered and the hair made to shine. I think either photograph of Isabella is beautiful, but the real woman is more interesting to me.
I disagree. People can disagree on what is beautiful and what is ugly. And the standards change. There are women who are considered beautiful now who would not have been in the 1950s. And many women from the 1950s and earlier would be considered overweight and not as attractive now.
There’s more than two classifications – pretty and ugly. Most of us fall into the middle somewhere or think that we do. The last thing that most women want is a man who is interested only in her looks.
Sarah Jessica Parker is a knockout. I don’t care if she’s pretty.
The face that is most pleasing to my eye is that of a Somalian woman who is currently a model. I don’t know her name. She keeps her hair very short and has almost a bashful presence. But when she smiiles, her face is like sunshine. She just radiates beauty. She gleams. I’ve never seen anything like it.
She’s always seemed to me to exude exuding confidence.
Read it carefully. 
-FrL-
“Square Pegs” was when I first became aware of SJP and her role as the “homely” smart girl (who’s really quite cute) pretty much remains at the core of how I think of her. Of course, I’ve never watched a full episode of S&TC so, unlike most people, her role as Carrie Bradshaw hasn’t replaced my image of her. That being said, I think the reason why Sarah Jessica Parker is unconsidered unsexy by a lot of males is due to the fact that when they see her, they see Carrie Bradshaw (i.e., a high-maintenance clotheshorse). If SJP looked like Heidi Klum, she might be tolerable to these people but since she doesn’t, she’s clearly someone who’s not worth the trouble. It also doesn’t help things that SJP is hyped in the media as someone who’s supposedly breathtakingly beautiful.
Now, if in some parallel universe, Sarah Jessica Parker ended up playing the wife of some paunchy average-looking shlub on some sitcom like “The King of Queens,” a lot of the same guys who detest her would likely find her the most irresistible female on Earth.
Cite? 
And I have a buddy who evidently considers SJP as the ultimate example of female pulchritude.
Explains a lot.
The standards for weight change, but the standards for an attractive face do not really change at all. A horse like face was never considered attractive at any point in history.
A woman with a great body and a not so great face can be “sexy,” but she can never be beautiful, in my opinion anyway, because beauty is about the face more than the body.
You can always lose weight. You can’t just transform an ugly face into a pretty one. Even with plastic surgery, which costs many thousands of dollars, it will still look fake.
I’ve come to question the premise of this thread in general. Is SJP known for being pretty or being attractive and stylish? There is a big difference.
I’ve been spending way too much time thinking about this, and my conclusion is that SJP isn’t pretty per se, but her fame and acclaim are a lot about attitude, and being attractive by taking good care of yourself and looking nice via clothes, shoes, hair, and make-up. Considering that she is not inherently a raving beauty, she has done a lot with what she has, and that’s mostly what her image and icon status are all about. Certainly no one can deny that she is well put together, fit, and fashionable (even though she sometimes misses, fashion-wise, she takes a lot of risks and definitely looks great pretty often).
Being attractive isn’t just the empirical measure of your facial features. It’s the whole package, and SJP has other qualities that make her beautiful overall. Of course, I am not looking at her sexually, more as a critical examination of a celebrity. What viscerally attracts you is a matter of taste, and no amount of style icon status will change that. Maybe women like SJP more than men…
A single data point here – I’ve never seen more than a couple seconds of S&tC, as my tastes don’t run that way and I change the channel as soon as I recognize it. (Often accompanied by Beavis yells: Aaah! Change it! Change it!)
No, she’s simply extremely unattractive to this particular male.
Same here. I don’t know the first thing about the show she’s on. My exposure to her comes in the form of seeing her mug plastered all over every magazine from here to the Congo. The only thing she should be on the cover of is the Daily Racing Form.
In Sex and the City, she always seemed to be rather vibrant, smiling a lot. That’ll do much for anyone’s appearance.
I remember she looked cuter in Flight of the Navigator somehow, but then its been a while since I saw that film.
Actually, now that I think of it, maybe we should be giving her a break. I mean, I have never seen such unbridled hatred towards anyone. It’s like you guys are just walking around with blinders on. Would it behoove you to abstain from saddling this poor woman with such a burden? For God’s sake, if she were to read this, she could become mentally un-stable. She could go off and join a colt or something.
Neigh, I say.