Shallow Men And The Women Who Suffer (The Male Lust For The Supermodel Perfect Mate Alert)

Jerusalem Post ^ | Rabbi Shmueley Boteach

[Victoria Delsoul]

Well, good for you. :-)

[wardaddy]

Genetic?

I think the higher the Lower Continental Indian DNA the greater the risk of obesity...and the frame for it.. More European or Mulatto Latin women are no fatter than well behaved Gringas...maybe even less so

[grey_whiskers]

What's really beautiful is the expression of the soul that pours through the eyes. All else fades like mist in the sun. When you love someone, you see beauty that no one else does. Because I love my better half, I see beauty that is not damaged by gray hair or lines in the face. That's the beauty of the soul - the real person.

Aye. But you spelled "grey" wrong :-)

Full Disclosure: From C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet:

"...This love, you say, comes only once while the hross lives?'

'But it takes his whole life. When he is young he has to look for his mate; and then he has to court her; then he begets young; then he rears them; then he remembers all this, and boils it inside him and makes it into poems and wisdom.'

'But the pleasure he must be content to only remember?'

'That is like saying, "My food I must be content to eat."'

'I do not understand.'

'A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hman, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing. The seroni could say it better than I say it now. Not better than I could say it in a poem. What you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure, as the crah is the last part of the poem. When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it. But still we know very little about it. What it will be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then--that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. . . .'

. . . 'And indeed,' he continued,'the poem is a good example. For the most splendid line becomes fully splendid only by means of all the lines after it; if you went back to it you would find it less splendid than you thought. You would kill it. . . .'

I didn't understand it when I first read it in high school. But I understand it somewhat better now...

Cheers!

[Melas]

Disagree. Schmuley properly realizes that set while set "really nice" and set "good looking" overlap, that the subset "really nice and good looking" is in all liklihood numerically insufficient for every man, or even most men to find one.

But what do I know? I'm as ugly as homemade sin, and I married a truly gorgeous 6' blonde.

[COEXERJ145]

I think you know what I meant. :-)

[HitmanLV]

But when religious Jews marry for materialistic and ego-driven values, they degrade a glorious spiritual tradition.

Again, this exibits an implicit (and remarkable) bias against good looking women. Rabbi Schumley is better than that! A shame!

[HitmanLV]

Its not a woman's brains, personality or character that interest men. Its what she has to offer on the outside.

It's both. There is no reason a good man can't find an appealing, and substantive, mate.

[wardaddy]

I think liberal women who live for validation project inner dissatisfaction same as men.

I first saw this in manhattan early 80s when all these hippiechick/women's lib super educated at Sarah Lawrence types woke up at over 35 in a panic for children and often saw it get away from them.,

They got sold a bill of goods by Sontag and Jong and have spent the last 20 years middle aged alone and trying to explain why they were actually "right" even though they know they were wrong as hell.

i am seeing younger girls reject their mom's fembot ways...they see what mom has tried to hide.

[HitmanLV]

Try telling a young woman her breasts are heavenly and she doesn't need augmentation. She'll tell you your full of it and go ahead with her plans.

Well, you might try developing some better lines! ;-)

[metmom]

My sister and brothers and I used to play Barbie and GI Joe. No Ken for us. He was a wimp.

[Melas]

my tallest flame was 5'9" and I'm 6'5"

Gotcha beat. My tallest flame was 6'6" and yes, she played basketball in college. She was a whopping 17" taller than I am. I finally married a woman who was only 11" taller than I am, and our 15th anniversery is rapidly approaching.

[A CA Guy]

I had a cute, intelligent successful lawyer girlfriend before and intelligence is very very sexy.

Ann is rare in that she has an equally great flare for writing and entertainment.

I think she is a total riot and any guy she ends up will have a fun marriage IMO if she does allow enough time at home to conduct a life.

I get the impression she would have her guy constantly laughing with one heck of a mischievous sense of humor.

[HitmanLV]

We guys prefer: full bosom, tiny waist, long legs on a woman. Who ordained, who prescribed that this should be so?  

Now I'm known as Dapper Dan, the lady killer man,
And those that I don't kill I wound a bit.
I run a fancy car, I call it the Mayflower,
On account of all the Puritans that've come across in it.
Now I took 20-year-old Pam up to the wood near Boulder Dam,
Stopped the car and thought that she'd know what to do.
I said, "Get in the back now, Pam," she said, "What the heck do you think I am?"
I wanna stay in the front seat here with you."

Oh, give me an older woman every time, every time,
Give me an older woman every time.
They don't yell, and they don't tell, and oh, they're grateful as hell,
So give me an older woman every time.

 - The Wisdom of Mr. Benny Hill 

[TChad]

"Supermodels" are often quite grotty.

Not always. Supermodel Stephanie Seymour used to visit my favorite coffee shop back when I lived in southern CA. She was absolutely lovely, easily prettier in person than in photos. It was hard not to stare.

Plus, she was friendly.

[HitmanLV]

Don;t fall for this line, Paul. There are many very goodlooking women who have substance. You don't have to sacrifice one for the other. I never have.

[wardaddy]

I confess that some of these legs forever supermodels look enticing


they sure wear jeans well

I really just paid much attention....I was an exploiter of oppotunity and I reckon I attracted more shorter women

[potlatch]

Ya, we all like Ann but she could do with a few more pounds, especially when you realize that pictures and TV are supposed to add 10lbs to a person!!

[metmom]

Diet? Cultural? Genetic? Bush's fault? I don't know.

I've heard that many Indians and Mexican tribals groups are very suseptible to the bad effects of a western diet. Some groups are reported to have aduly onset diabetes rates of 40 % when they adopt a western diet as opposed to sticking to a traditional diet. It sounds like there is a major genetic component involved.