It's better than nothing!! If cute is what I have, I might as well work it. I will never be striking glamazon or Busty Russell.
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (Allyzay Ei, Friday, 1 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, me too.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
No.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
OTM X 1000!
As for men and women using the word cute in different ways - I also use it to describe things that are not cute in a physical sense, to mean "sweet" and "mildly amusing," and I have never ever heard a man use it that way.
― Maria e (Maria), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://static.flickr.com/94/231933325_a2360e15c8.jpg?v=0
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Also worth reading: "A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse," by Stephen Jay Gould, in which he claims that "babyish features [in both actual babies and in animals] tend to elicit strong feelings of affection in adult humans."
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
It depends on how far it goes. If it's wearing a little cardy, I don't mind. If it's "hewwo, do oo wike my buttefwy?" it makes me want to throttle them. "YOU'RE FUCKING THIRTY! GROW UP!"
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
THE WORST
― friday (lfam), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie III (PappaWheelie III), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Now I am over that and can describe my freakishly exponential crushed-upon folks as cute, fucking cute, totally adorable, good goddamn they are cute...I don't know how well the sailor talk and the fawning intertwine, but so goes my mouth.
― Abbott (Abbott), Saturday, 2 December 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 2 December 2006 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Thursday, 7 December 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I know what most women seem to think my best features are, though.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm thinking that for me there's no sexual component, I don't want to get off with the cute object, I just want to take it in, make it mine forever (cf also, "I could eat that kitten's head in ONE BITE" -- didn't someone write that eating something is the ultimate loving destruction? I forget). But then one of the wise ladies of a certain age said on another thread that she feels the key to her feminine sexuality is the knack of enticing things to cross her threshold willingly, rather than a desire to invade them so maybe there's a male/female divide here.
Discus.
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Is this where I've been going wrong?
No, this seems like such a narrow view of feminine sexuality. but maybe that's what you're getting at - that this is the *cute* stereotype, as opposed to the hott one.
― masonic boom (kate), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link
She's on tv therefore she must be attractive/her attractiveness has been tacitly approved therefore I find her (random appealing but nonsexual qualities) attractive? That doesn't necessarily seem like you, John, but it's the only chain of reasoning that comes to mind.
― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
i was searching for pictures of Iraq carnage and stumbled upon the cutest lil' soldier you ever did see. awww, she couldn't hurt nobody. i'll bet bubble gum comes out of her rifle:Have you seen the "OMG HOT ISRAELI SOLDIERESS" blogs?
― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link
No you are very wrong! George-ous is also acceptable.
I am neither cute nor hott I am more: I am kv_nol, hear me roar!
― kv_nol (kv_nol), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
http://myspace-901.vo.llnwd.net/01424/10/95/1424025901_l.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/SLiTHERGrant/Halloween.jpg
(runs her own myspace, she does)
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link