I personally think you are generalizing your "gender" based on yourself, or your acquaintances and good fellows, a little too much for this to be a concrete pitch. Honestly, I'm seeing more "beer boy" thinking than "mature man" thinking IMO, which usually tends to simplify *everything* in human interactions to mere black and white, either due to lack of experience or going through experiences with no hard drive.
Attraction for many people, men included, is stimulated off more than physical looks even when you first see a person. Presence [the way one carries themselves, projects aura, and affects others so intangibly is also used to define "sexy"] has a stronger weight over that, and there will always be men who will raise their flags for Keira over Eva, just as there will always be men who will prefer Eva over Keira. These aren't matters of being "gay" or "dead."
Like women, men have different standards/tastes, and the stereotype that they'll all "hump *anything* with T&A" is exactly that.
...And honestly, when we just find someone "hot" then we look to the next *even hotter* thing [if available; it's all a matter of WHEN it's available] walking by the bar after ten minutes of losing interest in the former hottie, unless they're "interesting" enough outside of their looks to hold our attention.
Curves or lack-of doesn't exactly validate or invalidate someone's desire to sleep with another person all the time, either. In many cases, these are just bonuses.
The actual sex drive/sex connection/skills in bed of whatever person is the real grit, something curves don't really "mean/show" the majority of the time [this is a terrible mistake lads make by thinking innocent D-cup carriers are instant sex kittens simply because of that].
I've seen a lot of young men entertain the, "The hard-bodies are horrible and lazy lays; they're like *beep* a quilt because they're used to not doing anything except being *beep*" stereotype to sleep with "less physically attractive/hard-bodied" mates who are "desperate sex kittens."
Regardless, neither women are excruciatingly attractive in this movie for me, and the movie doesn't go on a ledge to make those *physical* [just mental, IMO] comparisons in my opinion; Eva Mendez being the more average of the two for my personal tastes. Although the classical-faced Keira is thinner, I wouldn't exactly call Eva's body "above average/curvy" either, coupled with the average face she has. She is indeed attractive, but altogether, not someone enough to exaggeratively be deemed "impossible to resist." That's batting higher than what it is.
Being a Californian myself, she would not be considered exactly "thick" or "above" many of the women in my own family; she actually looks just like all of them in body-type and etc, along with the majority of women in the inner-city/suburbs. I would think the body types of Beyonce [back in the day], Esther Baxter, Draya Michele, Christina Hendricks, Iggy Azeala, or Kim K would make more sense if we want to go for the, "damn how do they resist that!" poll, but Eva Mendez? Not so much. Not even in face. She's interchangeable among daily pedestrians, *especially* my Latinas.
But "hard bodies" are interchangeable amongst each other in general. Urban magazines and "Video Vixens" prove that.
Keira? She is not as interchangeable as Eva is, unless we are batting against -- not daily pedestrians, but fashion-models with unique attributes....but again, she is not excruicatingly attractive in this film either.
They're both eh here, but in two different ways.
But I don't feel like Michael's attraction was riding on Eva's "face/body." An added bonus, and a part of it, but I'm pretty sure the attraction even stuck because of the chemistry, and actually having any connection at all. Anything else, like I said, is a bonus, but not the ruling factor for the glue.
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dontshootthemessengernl
11 years ago
In reality it happens that the persons someone cheats with is actually less beautiful than the partner. Why? because sexual realities are messy.
Because he or she wants diversity maybe or because it is not only looks that count.
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Word-Weight
11 years ago
So true, you are. I think it's mostly Hollywood that paints the picture of cheating being centered around the temptation being more beautiful than the partner. That happens, of course; just not as much, or as black and white, as Hollywood makes it. A lot of times, the cheater wants the sex they're not getting, to be acknowledged and feel needed, etc.
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