That Airline Ad

[Hyena Dandy]

There's some ad that I've seen on the Youtubes and such a lot.

It's got a woman with a very attractive guy, and they're flirting. She drops her phone, and he turns on the light to pick it up. But when he comes back up, GASP! He has CURLY HAIR. And ASTHMA! The HORROR. So they switch the light back, and he's sexy again.

This add just rubs me the wrong way. That it's portrayed as, like, a deal breaker that he has athsam and curly hair.

I get that they're advertising mood lighting, but couldn't there have been some other way to show that?

[anakhouri]

My son has curly hair and everyone loves it. What's wrong with curly hair?

[Hyena Dandy]

I have absolutely no idea.

[Ree]

What's wrong with curly hair?

I think, in this case, it's meant to be associated with a geek or nerdy type image.

In fact, if you look at a lot of the "Hollywood" images of geek represented in movies or TV sitcoms, in many cases, they have curly hair.

I have no idea why.

[blas87]

You've never seen the foreign commercial with the hot chick in the elevator, and she waits in discomfort for all the men to leave, and when she's finally alone in there, she exhales and all of a sudden she's several pounds heavier and her clothes barely fit?

[jackfaire]

Hollywood thinks that smooth wavy hair = strong guy image

Curly hair = hot girl image

guy with curly hair = effeminette guy


This has been your Hollywood moron minute

[Ginger Tea]

Try being a man with hair prone to forming ringlets (when its not matted dreads)

One time I swear I could have hair modeled for a Mills & Boon cover

Oh and I'm Ginger in case you hadn't guessed

[anakhouri]

My son is often mistaken for a girl despite the fact that he is terribly manly (for a 2-year-old). Of course, he is also a bit of a geek (he's geeking out on Superhero Squad right now) but I think that is more parental influence than as a result of his curls (and he has long, spiral curls like you see on porcelain dolls...fuck you world, no way am I cutting those until summer when it'll be too hot for him).

[smileyeagle1021]

I think, in this case, it's meant to be associated with a geek or nerdy type image.

Because you know, no one could ever want to be involved with the geeky nerdy type
Personally, I'll take an interesting geek over a boring manly man any day.
That doesn't make good television though

[Ree]

Because you know, no one could ever want to be involved with the geeky nerdy type

I didn't say I agreed with it.
Was just explaining the "Hollywood" ideal of attractive.

Personally, I was always more attracted to that type, too.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Try being a man with hair prone to forming ringlets (when its not matted dreads)
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Yeah, my husband has jet black hair textured like old-style telephone cords. And it would probably dread up if he let it. He used to grow it long and it was breathtaking. It's curled so tight it looked like curly dreads when he was younger.

And he's gorgeous. And as someone who can trace his ethnicity to three different races, he's also very, very different looking. Now that he's deliberately rocking the geek look, nobody who sees him forgets him. He does not look like anyone else. I find him irresistible.

I intensely dislike the incredibly narrow field of vision for what is considered beautiful. Anything other than straight hair, white skin, perfect teeth, and a plastic nose is considered goofy or ugly or weird. And considering that the human species has so many wonderful colors and forms and features, this is unforgivable.

Oh, and while I'm ranting, the hero of my ongoing historical romance project, who is hands down the most popular character of the series? Asthmatic.

So suck it, ad people.

[radiocerk]

I tend to be physically attracted to "unusual" looking people, at least by Hollywood standards, and intelligent people, definitely intelligent people.

[smileyeagle1021]

I tend to be physically attracted to "unusual" looking people, at least by Hollywood standards, and intelligent people, definitely intelligent people.

Hey, I can understand, my celebrity crushes include Andrew Lee Potts, Jake Curran, James Kyson, and Connor Trinneer

And most people I give that list to think I'm nuts.

[guywithashovel]

I have always felt attracted to Kelly Clarkson. I think she's very pretty, though she tends to put on weight sometimes, and the media bawls her out for it. Even so, I've never thought her to be absurdly overweight, even at times when the mags were like "Whoa, Kelly! Put the fork down!" However, I'm not too wild about most of her music. Also, say what you want about Britney Spears, but I never saw what the big deal was when people were making big deal out of her weight gain. To me, she just looked a little more full figured.

Renee Zellweger gets flak for her looks sometimes (scrunchy face, I believe). Still, I think she's cute.

At an old job of mine, someone often left copies of the tabliods in the breakroom, and they would sometimes have "Best and Worst Celebrity Bodies" (or something like that). Sometimes they would catch pictures of ones who had purportedly gained weight, and they would circle the parts of the body where the weight was. Most of the time, it was just a little loose skin around the sides, or maybe a slight paunch (which could have just been because of a big lunch or dinner).

Sometimes I wonder what we're all supposed to look like.

[blas87]

Britney Spears, since she's had kids and toured less, looks like what any normal person looks like. Meaning, women without access to hundred/thousand dollar diet rituals (shakes and foods and whatnot) and multi-thousand dollar training sessions that all the celebrities have.

I never understood why people got on her so much because she wasn't perfect looking anymore. Now, she looks like any other woman her age, oh hell, STILL better, actually. She was never even fat or chubby.

And I never understood the flack Kelly Clarkson gets, either. At her absolute worst, she's still not even chubby. She has a fat face. So what? A lot of skinny girls (Kate Bosworth, human twig) have fat faces. It's a detriment, but moreso when you're a fuller figured woman with a fat face. It's always a little hard to balance yourself all out when you have a round shaped head or really fat cheeks...or if you're really lucky, both of those detriments, like I have

Then add that it also appears Kelly Clarkson has naturally larger upper arms, which is usually genetic and a certain body type. I also have that problem "Fat girl arms" I call it. It's also detrimental and hard to keep yourself looking thin when certain parts of you will always be chunky or larger than the rest, putting it off balance. And you can lift all the weights you want, those arms will never, ever be as skinny as you'd like.