I have these arguments with a friend of mine where she keeps saying that his face and forehead is weirdly unappealing.
OMG, that's exactly it! To me, he looks like a baby (remember that other discussion?), and it's in partially because his forehead seems to be squished down around his little pea of a nose (I have the same problem with Peter MacNicol). Yeah, it's clearly an aesthetic choice for me - I tend to like high foreheads, high cheekbones, big eyes, long noses, and full mouths, and he's pretty much the opposite of all that. But I get the tall thing, too - I'm really short, just barely over five feet, so anyone is taller than me, and there are some small men who I think are beautiful (more RL than media-wise, because tiny guys rarely make it in commercial contexts). But Eccleston's long legs? Yeah.
There's an anthropological theory that people tend to go for either people who look very much like them (endogamous drive), or who are very different (exogamous), and I'm something like 98% exogamous in my tastes.
Jensen is very pretty, but more attractive now to me, because girly doesn't do it for me ;-)
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Date: 2007-07-05 11:33 pm (UTC)OMG, that's exactly it! To me, he looks like a baby (remember that other discussion?), and it's in partially because his forehead seems to be squished down around his little pea of a nose (I have the same problem with Peter MacNicol). Yeah, it's clearly an aesthetic choice for me - I tend to like high foreheads, high cheekbones, big eyes, long noses, and full mouths, and he's pretty much the opposite of all that. But I get the tall thing, too - I'm really short, just barely over five feet, so anyone is taller than me, and there are some small men who I think are beautiful (more RL than media-wise, because tiny guys rarely make it in commercial contexts). But Eccleston's long legs? Yeah.
There's an anthropological theory that people tend to go for either people who look very much like them (endogamous drive), or who are very different (exogamous), and I'm something like 98% exogamous in my tastes.
Jensen is very pretty, but more attractive now to me, because girly doesn't do it for me ;-)