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I'm with her.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

well i'm sure i hate bjork in the same way you do, but still i would enjoy humping her glasses clean off - which demonstrates the cute/libido connection.

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute and not sexy: Bjork and kittens.
Cute AND sexy: Beth Orton and Joanna Newsom

(I know I'm in the minority with the Bjork!=sexy thing)

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

some find kittens sexy

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

They are also in the minority.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/bjork.gif

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm also with Kate, in that I find premeditated cuteness in girls really off-putting. It ought to be something you ARE, not something you LOOK LIKE. Or something. I haven't thought it out, tbh -- too annoyed.

NB: I say this as someone who always wanted to be striking and Amazon-like and ended up fresh-faced and short.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Abbott called me cute on wdyll.

― grady (grady), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute does NOT mean unthreatening. Believe that at your peril.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't mind being called cute, when and if that ever happens. (Rarely these days)

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

http://scoopsnoodle.com/lix/kit.jpg

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I am with everyone who finds Bjork non-sexy.

― 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

I tend to be more attracted to folks that I consider "cute" than would normally be called "hot."

Yeah, me too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

(Which is probably absolutely no surprise to anyone who has met anyone I've dated.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Coming from a busty Amazon, I've spent my whole life wishing I was *cute*. Can't win, can you?

― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah. Or rather, we can all win -- just not with the strategy we'd planned ahead of time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

You want to protect cute things and preserve their cuteness, not fuck their glasses off. Err, right?

No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never been "handsome", "hot", or "studly" (not that anyone says that, not anymore). I've always been "cute", which I've never really known what to do with.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

NB: I say this as someone who always wanted to be striking and Amazon-like and ended up fresh-faced and short.

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

"That's a cute top you've got on."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Y'all should read the chapter on "cute" in Daniel Harris's Cute, Quaint, Hungry, and Romantic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

dude has a pretty impoverished version of cute

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I was gonna say -- unless that chapter gets more interesting (and I did just put the book on my reading list), he's not really hitting the mark.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:06 (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:

http://static.flickr.com/94/231933325_a2360e15c8.jpg?v=0

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

anyway, i came on here to say that i would call my maria cute more often if i weren't so staggered by her beauty. true story!

― scott seward (121212), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

(xpost) It's an interesting take, though. Dude is cranky.

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

too true. on the dark side of cute, aging animals bred to look like babies - ie a 15 y/o poodle. yr just all what have they done to you?!

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 1 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm also with Kate, in that I find premeditated cuteness in girls really off-putting.

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

"hewwo, do oo wike my buttefwy?"
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00226/Kim_Jong_Il_226574s.jpg

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno, that soldier looks kinda evil to me.

― sundarsubramanian (SundarS), Friday, 1 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

weird unresolved daddy-issues.

THE WORST

― friday (lfam), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess that i think that "cute" and "hot" are two different things, but i would be lying if i said that i didnt want to fuck the glasses off of both cute and hot girls. its just different kinds of attractiveness maybe.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i have been called cute and hot by the same person, but in different circumstances. i think that is a key point maybe.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link

ihttp://www.2xy.org/2004/blotter/shitbitch.jpg

― PappaWheelie III (PappaWheelie III), Saturday, 2 December 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/cuteanimal04.jpg

― scott seward (121212), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link

When I was five, my sister's friends would always call me 'cute,' but circa fourth grade, that stopped. I remember in seventh grade, some girls made a list of boys and how cute they were. After finding out about it and bugging my friend for a day or so, i found out that i was considered 'ok' by girls. Everyone thought my nose was my best feature. ???

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 2 December 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute seems a natural thing to call people on the online. I just really despised the word for about 3 weeks after I got this job at a diner waitressing half the time and dusting the country-time patchwork angel knicknacks up front. Jesus aitch, I heard so many dipshit arteriosclerotic red hat society bitches call all that tacky shit "cute" every goddamn mintue. I came home from work the first day and said, "OK, the work cute is now banned in this house."

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

people use it really differently. don't like the hot term unless it is for someone i don't know - very random person, celebrity, person i would never... for me, cute is a simple and probably not adequate way to say you find the person hot/pleasant/adorable so feel some measure of affection for them etc. on top of wanting to xxxx them usually. and i rarely feel moved to point out things that are just plain old cute---babies, etc. seems unecessary, trite.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 2 December 2006 08:25 (seventeen years ago) link

C/H: Jenna Fischer?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

more hot, i'd say

― paresthesia hilton (get bent), Thursday, 7 December 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I always feel like I'm quoting Seventeen magazine if I call someone "hot." The worst slangy for this idea was "fine," as in "he's so." It's as bad as styrofoam rubbing together.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to do a lex-like googlerun to find her out. From the couple of eps I've seen she's a LOT like the british The Office receptionist - cute rather than hot, but somehow my brain got tricked into thinking she was hot. But cute, I think, then hot.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link

As far as I know, I've never in my life been called "hot". I usually get "handsome" and occasionally "cute", but never ever "hot". That said, I'm like Susan w/r/t using "hot" myself.

― Rodney and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (Rodney J. Greene), Thursday, 7 December 2006 09:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not entirely sure who thinks I'm cute, who thinks I'm hot, and what the difference is.

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

I have NO IDEA what women see in me. (They usually don't, but that might just be my inner cynic talking). I think I'm more likely to be hot than cute, since tall-ish people like me are NEVER cute.

― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Thursday, 7 December 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

So cute things, like baby animals and people who are charming/appealing/non-threatening/etc -- my mental shorthand for them is "snowglobe", meaning I want to have them around to enjoy their appealing qualities, and the pinnacle of that wd be to keep them in snowglobes on my dresser and shake 'em up whenver I want a laugh/coo. There are definitely strains of my own convenience and of ownership or...possession, and perhaps for some people also a little exclusivity too, ie, that no one else can partake of their cuteness?

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

cutness rules f u guyz

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

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

Please note that I said "her feminine sexuality", not "hers, yours, and everyone's, forever and ever amen." Didn't mean anything else by it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha, Kingfish -- I've been annoying my girlfriend lately by talking about how hot Jenna Fischer is -- I don't think she's ever actually seen The Office, though. I'm realizing now that part of the reason I used the word "hot" (besides the jokey annoyance factor) because a) she's cute, and b) she's on TV -- which has the effect of translating her cuteness into something else. When my girlfriend finds women on TV attractive (like Penelope Cruz, or the actress who plays Marta on Arrested Development, or Alexis Bledel) she says they're "beautiful."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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Oh, that's so cute!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

skunk rape is never cute when you're experiencing it

― latebloomer (clonefeed), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Puppy rape is. WHEN YOU'RE DOING THE RAPING AMI ETC

― Johnney B's got a system (stigoftdumpilx), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Never has kitten rape been so adorable.

― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

someone plz to embed the "AW MWAH MWAH MWAH" kissy-whatever dialogue effect

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i love how its little feet are splayed helplessly in opposite directions.

/crepey

― emsk ( emsk ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

the disgusted look on the kitten's face is the opposite of cute.

― La Monte Jr. (LaMonte Jr.), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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