lets stop avoiding the elephant in the room
wait are you plax?
<3
who is this clown
he has the nicest hair
lol
and irises like shimmering river water
WHOIS
hair!
okay i’m starting to feel like a crepe
slfnsdkjfnsdkfnmksdnfg
people finding dudes like ruffalo attractive always puts a little more hope in my day
he is a dreamboat fyi; that tumbler’s and this thread’s title are are *understated*
feel like this guy is sort of passe, you all should move on
horseshoe otm.
cooper chucklebutt dead wrong.
always so mad at jho
learing to troll
how much of a percentage of dude’s hotness would you attribute to the hair?
Sandbox needed its own ruffalo pic thread, obv. To fill the swooniness gap while ilx.com is down.
its just like how long can you shlub around ladys fantasies for, you can count on me was like ten years ago
it is a v holistic hotness; cannot possibly be broken down by percentage. also please don’t make me be even more crepey than i already have been itt.
xp gtfo!!!!
I think he’s hot but I also think he’s sorta overrated tbh.
so a bald ruffalo would also be acceptable?
who can even tell the difference between this guy and vincent donofrio
tbh i think vincent donofrio is p dreamy
He’s definitely hot but I don’t think he’s incredible. Feel the same way about Gosling tbh.
I think donofrio is totally dreamy!!
lol gosling is such a tool, in ten years every 30 something lady is gonna be looking back all rubbing their heads confusedly ‘wait what ethan hawke really’
yeah ruffalo has a decent dude vibe which gosling totally does not but let’s keep our eyes on the ball, people
Wait a minute—don’t knock Ethan! He was the dreamiest of the dreamy before something awful happened and everything went to hell.
Ruffalo has a lot of threads. This has to be Plaxico who I will now call Judith from this day forward even if it turns out not to be.
im deeply disappointed my donofrio zing fell so flat, i really thought that one had legs, i have dishonored myself and will now resign from trolling this thread, at least til i get something to eat
Holy shit I guess I never knew what Donofrio looked like. Also v. hot, though I’d have to see him in action to be able to tell if he has anything on Ruffalo.
donofrio is def proto-ruffalo—that was a good connection but the problem is they are both dreamy.
Ruffalo-Gyllenhaal = best slashfic LOTR couple ever.
donofrio has a certain insanity about him that ruffalo lacks imo
donofrio is (was?) a campy genius on law and order: ci. he is a good actor!
I love A Brody. He’s hot.
He’s a great actor!! I loved him on CI.
donofrio could fit ruffalo completely inside him, he might even be ruffalo wearing a ruffalo suit
hahahaha
as a dude who can generally freely admit when other dudes are attractive i have to admit i don’t really see it w/ this ruffalo guy, but the fact that so many people do gives me hope that my schlubby everyman qualities will someday be that valued
u make it hard to h8 u, jho
xp i don’t get why dudes think he’s schlubby tbh
straight dudes, i mean
I love A Brody. He’s hot.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Monday, December 5, 2011 8:32 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
adrian brody is so much worse than hitler, and you are at least as bad as hitler via association
it doesn’t help that the only things i can remember seeing him in he was either doing a weird annoying brando impression (zodiac) or nothing of any consequence (eternal sunshine)
u make it hard to h8 u, jho
― horseshoe, Monday, December 5, 2011 8:33 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Permalink
;)
adrien brody seems like a db, but he is soooooo hot
the first pic itt is pretty schlubby
I wish they had cast Ruffalo as D’Onofrio’s long lost brother on LOCI.
I like that donofrio is bigger. He wears his size well.
Ugh. No. Adrian Brody needs to get his nasty face away from Ruffalo.
Would like Ruffalo and Donofrio in a love scene.
xp—that’s sort of what I have in mind
xp—“donofrio could fit ruffalo completely inside him” i meant
Does Brody seem like a DB? I didn’t know. I just know that he’s fine and that I’ve like him a bunch of movies.
i want to recommend you can count on me to you, al, but i feel no confidence you would like it. maybe 13 going on 30.
donofrio is an exceptionally huge person iirc via full metal jacket
YCCOM is great! Obv so is the latter.
i love yccom more than everything else but it doesn’t really seem like a some dude movie.
i vibe to donofrio tbh—have you guys seen happy accidents featuring marissa tomei its really good
He is a little schlubby but I think that’s part of the appeal? He looks somewhat imperfect in the best possible way.
yeah it really doesn’t, haha (xpost)
I have not but since I like both him and Tomei, I’m guessing that I should.
i vibe to donofrio
yeah, that was classic
in the picture al called schlubby he is just not skinny? he looks like he took a shower and everything unlike brad pitt, for example.
i also now feel bad for always thinking of him as tending to have somewhat awkward/pained facial expressions because i just read about how he once had a benign brain tumor that resulted in partial facial paralysis
wait, what does schlubby mean anyway
woah!
unshaved and slightly chinless can be schlubby w/o also meaning unwashed imo
Like sorta unkempt and . . . ? I don’t really know actually.
i liked you can count on me, although i was kinda offended when someone said i was like the same type of dude as ruffalos character, i was all bitch im not some bumbling conflicted underachiever im gangster! also im incredibly wealthy
I didn’t think he was so hot until The Kids are Alright and then thought whoa.
x-post lollllllll <3
that person was probably hitting on you, jho, fyi.
You know who was really good looking and this is apropos of nothing really other than the fact that Plaxico sat up until 4 am perving on him when he stayed over: Jesse Bradford. Whatever happened to that dude?
oh they were im sure but still there are more important things, like my pride xp
i vibe to donofrio
― mookieproof, Monday, December 5, 2011 8:38 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol i originally wrote ‘i love donofrio’ changed it in a moment of gay panic and then a second after posting went oh wait well maybe no one will notice
You know who was really good looking and this is apropos of nothing really other than the fact that Plaxico sat up until 4 am perving on him when he stayed over: Jesse Bradford
STORIES!
hahahahaha
haha
i think she means she and plax watched bring it on and then perved over him, not perved over him in person, though if it is the latter, erica, you’ve been holding out on me.
oh lol
HAHAHAHAHAHA yes, whoops
Although I don’t even think we watched Bring it On. We just started talking about Ruffalo and like 3 hours later were looking up pictures of Bradford in a Speedo from Swimfan.
yeah well if Jesse Bradford hung out here overnight I might find it difficult to ask him to join me on the balcony.
For a smoke.
they share a vibe.
xxp
is that all
sorry
he looks like a tick gorged with blood
attractive facial hair/earring combo
I first noticed Ruffalo in In the Cut, and I was bowled over. It was a good starting point—him as a cop.
I would definitely not call him “schlubby” (to me that means not just unkempt, but sloppy and defeated-looking—wearing sweatpants, unshaven, but with lint in your stubble) but maybe gritty.
I’d post who I realized fairly recently I think is really hot but you’d all make fun of me because he’s sorta skeevy.
DO IT
mark ruffalo v. colin ferrel
such a ruiner
I am very much saying (speculating, actually) that “unthreatening” (which you determined must refer to asexual boyishness when it in fact refers to a lack of adult ambition or perhaps even intelligence) is in fact what these women want.
lol that you think this is somehow more acceptable
I don’t believe that I was making that suggestion (or acknowledging anyone else as an arbiter).
Do you regard it as unacceptable to make the same suggestion with the genders reversed? If not, why the difference?
ambition makes u look pretty ugly
looks good on blondes iirc
kicking and screaming gucci little ck
If not, why the difference?
you are asking this question
When I am king you will be first against the mattress.
You aren’t answering it.
Guys, I’m kind of starting to think Ruffalo is cute.
(Sorry for the gendered form of address)
“unthreatening” (which you determined must refer to asexual boyishness when it in fact refers to a lack of adult ambition or perhaps even intelligence)
what I was getting at is that you imply that it’s LESS insulting to suggest women are attracted to “a lack of adult ambition or perhaps even intelligence” than to suggest that they are attracted to “asexual boyishness” when in fact both suggestions are patronizing and insulting by their very nature.
xp
You aren’t answering it.
because men and women are not categories that can be arbitrarily swapped out and reversed fyi—these are categories that are informed by billions of years of biology and millions of years of human culture, they are not interchangeable
why am I bothering
i think he has made it clear that minimizing notional offence was not a desired aim
can we discuss Mark Ruffalo’s chest hair kthnkx
what I was getting at is that you imply that it’s LESS insulting to suggest women are attracted to “a lack of adult ambition or perhaps even intelligence” than to suggest that they are attracted to “asexual boyishness” when in fact both suggestions are patronizing and insulting by their very nature.
I implied no such thing, either about all women, or the insult level. I was referring only to a possible reason (among others I’ve listed in the thread) that some women who find Mark Ruffalo attractive might do so, and wished to be understood properly as to the precision of that reason, when others decided my words meant something else, and that that something else was the basis for being patronizing and/or insulting.
Nor did I wholly dismiss the basis of the attraction, and repeated it in less judgmental terms that I think make it more acceptable/understandable, whichever gender is doing the desiring.
keep digging
he’s got a looseness that borders on rakishness. an apparent carelessness, he can seem almost unwatched, but he rubs his eyes, yawns, draws attention to himself. in films he just paws at everything around him.
the more this “threatening” word gets retracted from any commonly understood definition of what it usually means, the more obvious it is that this is some very specific bone being picked and has no actual significance in terms of actually describing anything real.
this is a good one to let go
because men and women are not categories that can be arbitrarily swapped out and reversed fyi—these are categories that are informed by billions of years of biology and millions of years of human culture, they are not interchangeable
I see. Because we are victims of our biology and environment and can not transcend them, even for purposes of academic argument, we need a form of affirmative action in favor of validating womens’ speech and desire such that it is unacceptable at this point to suggest that some women might act in the same fashion as some men (which fashion we have heretofore regarded as sexist)?
can we discuss Mark Ruffalo’s chest hair kthnkx
Yeah, I’m not even that into chest hair* but I just saw that and thought “jesus christ, YES”
*well, except for TY’s weird sprinkly blond chest hair oh god it’s been WEEKS since I posted a Thom pls pls pls I am fit to burst with fuckwant I’m so sorry but I have to...
AAAAAHHHH I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW lookit his eyes are so twinkly
so when ILX proper comes back gabbneb will still be 51’s right
51d
i think he has made it clear that minimizing notional offence was not a desired aim
While I don’t wish to give offense, you’re correct that I don’t seek to minimize it. I try to be provocative in order to provoke thought (which is what I think this place is or should be about). Whether that works is another story.
If I wanted to “patronize” anyone, I would shut up.
can you work thru this idea you have of the ‘unambitious’ even ‘unintelligent’ becoming desire objects
iyo is this functionally pathological or is it merely an undesirable desiring?
dont be mean
he can’t help it
can we discuss Mark Ruffalo’s chest hair kthnkx
i feel like his watch would get caught in all of that
ow
Fuck it, let’s just talk about Hitler hairdoes until the sun explodes
the panic, the vomit
the panic, the vomit
god loves his chest hair
god loves his chest hair yeah
a general girls&gays ws thread might be in order. i think its important to remember the main topic of general affirmation in this thread. mark ruffalo is attractive.
can you work thru this idea you have of the ‘unambitious’ even ‘unintelligent’ becoming desire objects
iyo is this functionally pathological or is it merely an undesirable desiring?
I don’t believe I called it undesirable. And I’m positing “unambitious” or “unintelligent” only relatively to the desirer. Perhaps that is in fact a (socially) desirable desire at this particular point in history—women wishing to be more successful than their partners.
by attractive I assume you mean lacking in adult ambition or perhaps even intelligence
xp
of course. i am threatened by men who are ambitious and intelligent.
You know what Mark Ruffalo is ~about~ to do here?
BITE HIS SHIRT.
It’s a thing. It’s so a thing.
a general girls&gays ws thread might be in order. i think its important to remember the main topic of general affirmation in this thread. mark ruffalo is attractive.
― judith, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 6:46 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
yes! i am sorry, plax, i keep running off at the mouth itt and then i’ll think of you and your clarity of purpose in starting this thread and feel guilt.
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but no, horseshoe you are a delight on this thread!
it started so well! donofrio is probably mark ruffalo in a mark ruffalo suit!
<3
he kind of looks like brando in that shirt biting picture, am i crazy/racist?
xp haha that is one of my fave jho posts of all time now
I think he just looks like some Platonic ideal of hott mediterranean latin lover *insert racist stereotype here* coz even I’m feelin’ that pic. But it could just be the shirt biting.
no i see it! i think there is a brando/ruffalo connection definitely
Wow. Yes.
also gabbneb, i believe that you meant unthreatening in the (nonsensical) way you claim, but that’s not how it’s usually used when describing men, and in your initial post “unthreatening” was certainly legible in the usual sense of “asexual” or “someone 12-year old girls would like because they don’t know anything about anything.”
man, that screentest. he is so bashful!
he seems high to me
also gabbneb, i believe that you meant unthreatening in the (nonsensical) way you claim, but that’s not how it’s usually used when describing me
Fair enough. I’d like to think that ILX is free of that sort of thing.
and in your initial post “unthreatening” was certainly legible in the usual sense of “asexual” or “someone 12-year old girls would like because they don’t know anything about anything.”
Fair enough, again, but I explicated it not too many posts later (and had adverted to a genderless view in the original post).
Why the fuck are we having this discussion here when Ruffalo’s chest hair presents more semiotic challenges?
holy hell @ at FT’s last ruffalo pic
Yeah, can we talk about that chest hair some more?
I explicated it not too many posts later (and had adverted to a genderless view in the original post).
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:07 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
maybe you and i should just get our own thread, but to me saying that mark ruffalo is unthreatening in comparison to dudes who are more like the dude version of “strong women” is not genderless! how we characterize “strong women” and “threatening men” (lol) is all about characteristics that we think of as typically masculine.
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is all about characteristics that we think of as typically masculine.
And I think it’s clear that I don’t, or at least am speaking academically as if they are not. Perhaps because I was raised by equally successful parents (who admittedly are not free of gender roles)?
my dilemma here is the facial hair, i think i prefer clean-shaven ruffalo out of the box but i’m willing to entertain other povs
ah the non-gendered paradise that is “speaking academically”
he has a clean shaven face that suggests three day stubble. he has a mussed look about him. i realise this is getting a bit terius nash.
haha i totally end up feeling all terius nash after posting about mark ruffalo for too long
in the sense of, i am being a creep
And I think it’s clear that I don’t, or at least am speaking academically as if they are not. Perhaps because I was raised by equally successful parents (who admittedly are not free of gender roles)?
― illegal crew member (C.K. Dexter Holland), Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:16 AM (2 minutes ago)
i don’t think it is in any way possible to imagine such a space in which gender is abolished. and to do so would be to imagine a completely different context for desire from the one we are stuck in. what you are trying to do is p much just as dumb as what you are actually doing.
Horseshoe, you know I met stanley tucci, right??
“she got it fixed just so I can fuck it up”
Horseshoe, you know I met stanley tucci, right??
― smoove operator, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 7:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Permalink
HOLD UP
i did not know that
This is an ongoing problem, when some people are “speaking academically” from some abstract “intellectual” position and others of us are speaking from the flesh and bone experiences of our actual lives. And I’m just sick of this privileging of the former over the latter like it just doesn’t ~exist~ or can be hand-waved away.
I need to go to bed. And dream of blond chesthair.
what was he like???
urbanely charming
forthright but with a gentle twinkle in his eye
swoony
have you seen him in easy a btw
he looks like a turtle
i don’t think it is in any way possible to imagine such a space in which gender is abolished. and to do so would be to imagine a completely different context for desire from the one we are stuck in. what you are trying to do is p much just as dumb as what you are actually doing.
What am I doing/trying to do? If I were to speak for myself, I’d say that I’m expressing an ideal of a relationship of equals, whatever the gender, one which I think is often roughly descriptive of reality and will become increasingly moreso. Obviously, there is no true and complete equality between any two individuals, and you could argue that most relationships are founded upon one or more forms of inequality, perhaps shifting back and forth between the participants, but I think it’s a useful notion, both descriptively and prescriptively.
This is an ongoing problem, when some people are “speaking academically” from some abstract “intellectual” position and others of us are speaking from the flesh and bone experiences of our actual lives.
I would not and did not claim to be speaking about your life. Why do you insist upon my inability to speak about others’ and my own because it does not match yours?
well then surely “threatening” is ,in this (irrelevant) formulation, a positive attribute
It’s like trying to talk to someone who insists that the sky is green. And you know, maybe he is actually colour blind? But no matter how many times ppl explain to him “it’s commonly agreed that the sky is the colour called blue” he still just goes on insisting that it’s green.
I really admire horseshoe and shakey mo for being able to keep being reasonable for do long.
He was filming in my home town and would come into the restaurant I worked at a bunch, with his fam and that guy from the sopranos.he was SUPER fucking nice, polite, authentically and easily charming, better-looking irl, and his kids were well-behaved. And he tipped really well. Xp to hs
Also I’m VERY EXCITED to look at that olyphant tumblr when I get home
yay! i knew he was nice! the version of stanley tucci i made up in my head is v nice.
You were otm
WS Stanley Tucci. Only god can judge me.
Stanly Tucci—Only God Can Touch Me
you are not alone, Nicole
I really want Mark Ruffalo to find this thread and read what happened here today.
My interest is much more in discovering the basis of the attraction rather than judging it,
If a person wants to know the answer to a thing perhaps they could think about asking the question insteading of providing an answer themselves
I guess the reason you are walking through this park is.....because shh no don’t tell me I got this one...its because you are subconsciously expressing your secret desire to own....a cocker spaniel!? How about that! I bet you didn’t even realize!
I learned a lot about people today
April A++++ OTM. Excelsior!
Ha, the kids fell in love with my Auntie Joan’s black cocker spaniel over Xmas.
watching donofrio in mystic pizza starring julia roberts
Just read all the hubbub from yesterday. If I didn’t know better, it almost felt like Shakey Mo and everyone else were trolling the hell out of CK Dexter Holland. Good on ya, ‘neb, for sticking up for yourself.
lol
classic thread, revive for his hulk. he’s lost the schlub, but it’ll be back.
horseshoe you are really hung up on this fatness thing—the bloat is holistic, it includes the mind, the body, the head, which expands, the general aura
― max max max max, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:06 (2 years ago)
i think a key component of the bloat is the head-area, when you bloat it almost doubles in size, not just fat but the entire skull and brain probably
― max max max max, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:09 (2 years ago)
<3
horseshoe you are really hung up on this fatness thing—the bloat is holistic, it includes the mind, the body, the head, which expands, the general aura
― max max max max, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:06 (2 years ago)
i think a key component of the bloat is the head-area, when you bloat it almost doubles in size, not just fat but the entire skull and brain probably
― max max max max, Wednesday, 7 December 2011 02:09 (2 years ago)
This bloat has sailed
ok now i get it