"hot" 100s - informal comparison
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dustdaughter this morning and took a look through, liking a good bit of what I saw and wondering about the lacks (no Claudia Black? No Gina Torres?), and being skeptical of AfterEllen.com's claim that "Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different", took a look over at what they were comparing to, namely Maxim's Hot 100.
Well...
I'd say "a little bit different" is fairly accurate. There's a goodly amount of crossover of the usual suspects (Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba) and the great majority on both lists are young, thin and busty (but, then, that's Hollywood - it's not as if most actresses are something different), but AfterEllen includes elegant older women (Helen Mirren!) and wonderfully curvy women (Queen Latifah!) and cute geeky women (Alyson Hannigan!) Also, is it just me or do all the Maxim photos seem to be from swimsuit or lingerie shoots, and AfterEllen photos seem on average a bit.. well, classier?
Other notes: most of the women on both lists are very feminine (but, again - that's Hollywood). Very few of the women on either list are openly bi or lesbian (but AGAIN - Afterellen marks them with an asterisk) - I wonder why Honey Labrador didn't get enough votes to show up? I mean, you look up "hot lesbian" in the dictionary and I'm SURE she's what pops up...
Jordana Brewster is on the list, which I found kind of amusing given that the only thing I've seen her in was the lesbian comedy D.E.B.S., yet I've been seeing her on the cover of a wedding magazine in supermarket checkout for the past month.
Conclusions: AfterEllen.com's audience and whoever made the list for Maxim do have slightly different taste in women, given the limited variety in choices. I think the difference can be summed up as such: Tricia Helfer (Six on BSG: tall blond hyper-feminine lingerie model) made Maxim's list, while Katee Sackoff (Starbuck on BSG: buff, curvy, kick ass and tomboyish) made AfterEllen's.
I tend to agree more with AfterEllen.com's list, but then, it's me :P Note: I make no assumptions about the relative tastes of all men who like women or all women who like women based on these two HIGHLY unscientific collections - demographic groups are not monolithic in their turn-ons and not being a dude I have no idea why guys are attracted to who they are :P
dustdaughter this morning and took a look through, liking a good bit of what I saw and wondering about the lacks (no Claudia Black? No Gina Torres?), and being skeptical of AfterEllen.com's claim that "Clearly, what straight men and lesbians find sexy in a woman is a little bit different", took a look over at what they were comparing to, namely Maxim's Hot 100.Well...
I'd say "a little bit different" is fairly accurate. There's a goodly amount of crossover of the usual suspects (Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba) and the great majority on both lists are young, thin and busty (but, then, that's Hollywood - it's not as if most actresses are something different), but AfterEllen includes elegant older women (Helen Mirren!) and wonderfully curvy women (Queen Latifah!) and cute geeky women (Alyson Hannigan!) Also, is it just me or do all the Maxim photos seem to be from swimsuit or lingerie shoots, and AfterEllen photos seem on average a bit.. well, classier?
Other notes: most of the women on both lists are very feminine (but, again - that's Hollywood). Very few of the women on either list are openly bi or lesbian (but AGAIN - Afterellen marks them with an asterisk) - I wonder why Honey Labrador didn't get enough votes to show up? I mean, you look up "hot lesbian" in the dictionary and I'm SURE she's what pops up...
Jordana Brewster is on the list, which I found kind of amusing given that the only thing I've seen her in was the lesbian comedy D.E.B.S., yet I've been seeing her on the cover of a wedding magazine in supermarket checkout for the past month.
Conclusions: AfterEllen.com's audience and whoever made the list for Maxim do have slightly different taste in women, given the limited variety in choices. I think the difference can be summed up as such: Tricia Helfer (Six on BSG: tall blond hyper-feminine lingerie model) made Maxim's list, while Katee Sackoff (Starbuck on BSG: buff, curvy, kick ass and tomboyish) made AfterEllen's.
I tend to agree more with AfterEllen.com's list, but then, it's me :P Note: I make no assumptions about the relative tastes of all men who like women or all women who like women based on these two HIGHLY unscientific collections - demographic groups are not monolithic in their turn-ons and not being a dude I have no idea why guys are attracted to who they are :P
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Date: 2007-06-17 02:30 pm (UTC)Oh my goodness YES! So sultry. She had a guest role on "The 4400" and when the lead character exclaimed "I don't even know this woman!" D. and I shouted simultaneously, "Can I know her?" :P
Re: "The L Word" - let me know what you think of it. I never thought it was all that good, and never finished season 1 (AFAIK, Lombard left the show by s2).
Jennifer Connelly... book me a suite for a long weekend with her and Catherine Zeta-Jones
With you on Connelley (she's got that vintage movie siren thing going on - did you ever see "Dark City"?) but not so much Zeta-Jones. She seems kinda snobby to me - is that just me?
Gillian Anderson... her, I'm kind of this-way, that-way about. Dana Scully, on the other hand,
For some reason, neither she nor Scully ever did it for me - dunno why. I do understand though that sometimes it's the character that's hot, not the actor...
Love Parker Posey, although I can't shake the feeling that she's a serial killer.
:D!!