He he he, the man's done his homework! Haven't heard of half of them, but I couldnt' resist commenting on the ones I knew about. My opinion should confirm that women know nothing about picking women! If I was a man, I don't think we'd fight over the ladies.
Julianne Moore: Mmmmh. Don't know. She has dry and patchy skin! (typical catty woman comment for you there)
Natalie Portman: OK I guess.
Juliette Binoche: Getting on a bit. Good looking in an intelligent way I guess. She looks like a very nice person, though.
Actually, I'm a woman. But I don't think that should prevent me from discussing female beauty! As my boyfriend could tell you, women spend far more time checking out other women than men do. Men may give a bathing beauty in a bikini an appreciative up and down ogle, but it's women who can tell you whether she has split ends, whether the tag on her suit is showing, etc.
As for Julianne Moore, I think she has great eyes, and that the red hair/pale skin thing is very striking. And Juliette Binoche is just so darned cute and classy! Makes me wish I had a French accent. Even if she is older than some other women who have been mentioned, I think she's going to age spectacularly.
Hi Carillion. I 100% agree with you: we women are constantly checking each other out. I think it's great we can just look at other women on TV and stuff and say: yeah, great legs, or disgusting dress or whatever. I think it's so much fun.
I hadn't thought about it yesterday, but the mother on Gilmore Girls (one of my daughters favorite shows), Loreli I think her name is, is definitly one of my favorites... although I don't know if it's her looks or her quirky personality on the show I like more.
The mother is played by Lauren Graham. (And I agree ... she's very pretty. Killer smile!)
true, but natalie portman is still the top actress to me -- plus she's Luke Skywalker's mom! hard to beat that!
Ahaaa, but you have to leave personality (including acting skills) and Star Wars affiliation completely out of it. Am talking purely physical attractiveness here. That's why I think she's just cute, but not mind blowingly beautiful.
I didn't see Jennifer Garner on anyone's list. What an outrage!
yea, i forgot about her.. she is a beauty, yes.
Is Jennifer Garner the one who married Ben Affleck? Because if so, OMG, you find her attractive? I often wonder how she ever could get an acting career with her looks. Definitely wouldn't fight you over her if I was a man. Even her poor little baby has her huuuge sticky-out ears.
Sgould, don't worry too much, armadillo has a pretty out-there sense of taste.
Unless...
of course, there's the possibility that she's just jealous.
Or that she's going to hunt me down and kill me for that comment.
And ok, leaving the Star Wars thing out, and the fact that she was awesome in The Professional, and the fact that she has a sunny personality, and the fact that she is a genius (she speaks at least three languages fluently, English, Hebrew, and Japanese), I'll admit that Natalie Portman...
I'm sorry, she's still hot. She's one of those "normal" skinny people I was talking about.
he he he. I could be jealous of Nathalie Portman. She's definitely cute, but definitely not beautiful (in my book).
I could never in a million years be jealous of Jennifer Gardner, that's for sure! Yuk.
P.S. I speak 3 languages, and am really really really not a genius. I know a mentally retarded kid who's fluent in two. It just depends if your parents moved around when you were little I think.
Yeah right armadillo i don't like either of them too (portman and garner); besides Jolie i like another beauty queen.....Jennifer Love Hewitt......check her out......
Now JLH is extremely cute. Neville, I think we have the same taste in women. Don't worry, am no thread to your patch as I am one myself!
Jim. In real-life, I prefer cute. Am always a little suspicious of someone's values when they pamper themselves to perfection, but I was more thinking of the world's most unattainably beautiful woman than the cutest. Maybe we should have another thread for the world's cutest woman
P.S. I speak 3 languages, and am really really really not a genius. I know a mentally retarded kid who's fluent in two. It just depends if your parents moved around when you were little I think.
Don't care what you say about yourself or Natalie Portman, anyone who is fluent in three or more languages is far more intelligent than the average person (So yes, you're smart. I've said it and I won't take it back :P). In fact, I believe that learning new languages actually opens your mind to possibilities it could not comprehend before. And mentally retarded doesn't mean unintelligent. I taught a writing class for developmentally disabled adults this past winter, and one of the guys in the class was probably the most intelligent person I have ever met, yet he is mentally retarded. I had to actually bow out of several conversations with him just because I did not have enough information on the topic to continue going.
And don't make fun of the ears. I've got elephant ears.
Don't care what you say about yourself or Natalie Portman, anyone who is fluent in three or more languages is far more intelligent than the average person (So yes, you're smart. I've said it and I won't take it back :P).
Thanks for the compliment! But seriously, speaking 3 languages is extremely common place in so manu places. It's just that in places where English is the only language, you'll only get to speak another language if you mom/dad are foreign, because English is such a dominating language. But in most other countries, it's completely commonplace. Take India, Belglium, Switzerland. And all the expat kids with mom and dad from different countries, going to international school in yet another language. That happens to all expat kids I know. I just think we were just really lucky if we got that as kids.
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In fact, I believe that learning new languages actually opens your mind to possibilities it could not comprehend before.
I'd totally go for that. I stand by my stance that you really don't need to be particularly clever to learn languages if you're in that environment from a young age, but it definitely expands the way you think. I love that I get jokes in a different language. That's the best thing about it.*
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And mentally retarded doesn't mean unintelligent. I taught a writing class for developmentally disabled adults this past winter, and one of the guys in the class was probably the most intelligent person I have ever met, yet he is mentally retarded. I had to actually bow out of several conversations with him just because I did not have enough information on the topic to continue going.
He obviously touched your life. I love those moments when you make a true human connection wiht someone. I see what you mean, though. Point taken.
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And don't make fun of the ears. I've got elephant ears.
. I'll only make fun if you're a superstar making money out of your looks!
I live in a very diverse area of the country, and go to school with people from India, Japan, Korea, and many other places. And while they have learned several other languages, I don't think that they're fluent in anything other than the primary language of their country.
I live in a very diverse area of the country, and go to school with people from India, Japan, Korea, and many other places. And while they have learned several other languages, I don't think that they're fluent in anything other than the primary language of their country.
OK, here's my setup and why am sooooo unfased about multilinguism: I live in Holland as an expat, and most of my friends are other non-Dutch expats, in general each of a different nationality. These have kids who go to either local Dutch schools, or international schools, + they speak at least one of their mom/dad's language totally fluently. And I really mean fluently like you wouldn't even detect a trace of an accent. And noone bats an eyelid at our expat barbecues where you see kids speaking Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, English, Dutch, you name it. We just take it for granted in this environment.
I can only speak in my experience, but the majority of kids I used to play with when I was little were at the very least totally bilingual (I did go to international school, so that's a bias). But what about second generation immigrants in sometimes very deprived areas, who speak their parents' language (be that Spanish, Hindi, whatever) + the language of the host country. Again, fluently. And of course there's the countries with myriad local dialects like India, so there are entire pockets of Indian society where people speak, for example, Hindi/local dialect/English and they consider it totally normal.
Same for Belgium: there are 3 languages (German/Dutch/French). In some regions, noone speaks the other language, but in some Dutch-speaking regions, the average level of fluency in French is so astonishing that you don't even know what the primary language is to these people. In some areas of Belgium, you can't be a receptionist, or a bus ticket collector, without speaking French and Dutch. And I can vouch that that average Belgian is no more clever, no more stupid, than the average American.
The kids whose parents only speak a "foreign" language are probably the biggest exemptions to what I know. They mostly are bilingual, but even some of them haven't bothered to maintain their practice in their native language.
But I'm guessing that it is a regional thing, and it depends on the exact setup of the region.
I 100% agree with you: we women are constantly checking each other out. I think it's great we can just look at other women on TV and stuff and say: yeah, great legs, or disgusting dress or whatever. I think it's so much fun.
yea, women do that, then compare and find self-faults.. drives a husband nuts.
true, but natalie portman is still the top actress to me -- plus she's Luke Skywalker's mom! hard to beat that!
Ahaaa, but you have to leave personality (including acting skills) and Star Wars affiliation completely out of it. Am talking purely physical attractiveness here. That's why I think she's just cute, but not mind blowingly beautiful.
there you go.. that's what i always found attractive, even in famous women. A pretty, cute & petite woman who looks real, who looks like a girl you could've gone to high school with or meet at a shop and who has no obvious plastic attachments (or other alterations of that nature).
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