A few of our female OS bloggers have been whipping up photo-heavy lists of their sexiest men. I have enjoyed seeing these lists, due mainly to my remarkable physical resemblance to every man on them!
I decided to come up with a sexiest women list, but didn't want to bore you with a list of actresses and models. So...no actresses, no models, no pop singers. Certainly, most of the women on this list are fabulous in appearance, but there has to be something a little more to them.
OPEN SALON women are ineligible, lest they dominate the list.
POLITICS AND WORLD AFFAIRS:
Elizabeth Kucinich, she looks like this (I adore redheads) and she used to work at one of Mother Theresa's orphanages, then at The House of Lords, long before she ever met her famous husband.
Rachel Maddow. Absolutely adorable in appearance and with a beguiling sense of humor springing from a keen intellect and a very deep political knowledge base. Don't think I'd get anywhere on a date, but I would love to have dinner with her and stare at that angel face while she makes me smarter just for having met her. (PS--Like I'd get anywhere on a date with ANY of these women!)
Michelle Obama. Beauty, intelligence, class. And by the way, I love the Skippy Jon Jones books, too! I hear she's married, sigh.
Meghan McCain. I think we might fight a little--maybe a lot. But she is not without a brain, and she has gorgeous eyes and a disarming smile.
Entertainment:
Kathryn Bigelow. Director of The Hurt Locker and Point Break. A very beautiful, physically fit, extremely talented woman who likes to blow stuff up. What's not to love?
Diablo Cody. Bright, funny, gorgeous. I loved her screenplay for Juno (which I fell in love with when I saw it leaked online well before I saw the movie or saw photos of her.) I enjoy her columns in Entertainment Weekly even more. She makes me laugh.
Whitney Matheson. Blogger extraordinaire. She writes Pop Candy for USA Today. She loves cool music, comic books and is one of the most accessible moderately famous people you could hope for. And she's tremendously cute. The girlfriend you wish you had in college.
Athletes:
Kerri Walsh. Olympic Gold Medalist. Let's just say it: She looks fabulous in her short shorts. Her "Chase the Stars" foundation promotes health and well-being for children. She really lives up to her nickname, "Six Feet of Sunshine."
Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg
These two beautiful athletes just headlined a top-notch Mixed Martial Arts card in which the more powerful Cris Cyborg won by TKO with one second left in the first round. No more drunks hassling me at the bars if I had one of these ladies for a date! Imagine all the cool stuff I could learn from them.
Danica Patrick. Before the Indy 500, she used to race in Beloit, Wisconsin. Closest I'll probably ever get to one of these ladies! With Danica, I could let her drive without it offending my manly sensibilities. (Except for the high-pitched screaming I would make in banked curves!)
Writers:
Jane Austen makes chaste love seem sexy, but I've always believed she would have been a great lover herself. Smart is sexy; honest is sexy; funny is sexy. Jane Austen is sexy.
JK Rowling. She has many of the same qualities of Austen in that she is smart, funny and honest. All of that, combined with that lovely accent and her good looks make Jo Rowling even more desirable than her huge mounds of cash.
Alice Sebold. Author of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold is one of the few women ever to make me cry. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin...so, another close to home connection for me. If you haven't read Bones you really need to. Sebold is a voice for all those whose lives have been affected by violence. There is much more to her than her grim subject matter. Her characters have humor, compassion and desire.
So, those are just a few of the many women whose beauty lies far deeper than their gorgeous exteriors. And that is sexy.
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Sandy B
I love the way you see women, too. Your list/choices and synopses made me grin.
Oddly enough, I wrote a short play one-woman for one of my high school actresses. She was tall and red-headed, so I wrote her MESSAGE FROM BOUDICCA. She still uses excerpts for her audition piece.
I can see the attraction to Sarah Chayes. I've never read her book, though....to tell you the truth I haven't seen much of her in the last few years. I kind of forgot about her.
Elizabeth Kucinich is also British, but it was not her British humor that drew me to her. It was her stunning beauty combined with her hands-on involvement in helping some of the world's poorest people.
I don't know if I deserve credit for depth. I've just been around long enough and paid enough attention to women to know that there is alot more to like about them then how they look. And I do love the way they look and sound and smell and...
I like to think that it is not that uncommon for men with a little experience under their belts to start to see that sexiness and attractiveness are actually more dependent on factors like intelligence, accomplishment and personability than it is on mere good looks. (Many women are capable of this type of insight, there must be a couple guys around who can think like that!)
I really think that your mother was right, by the way. And judging by your profile photo, you are well out of your awkward phase.
PS--I am still trying to process your Pink Ghetto article.
I'm still around, just monstrously busy.
Gee Bee,
I really want to believe your anecdote, but I have read so many interviews with her, and so many other articles about her, and never heard the slightest mention of "Jen." A quick internet check found several quotes in which Rowling herself says she is "called Jo."
Here is the opening of her 2000 interview with the CBC.
Shelagh Rogers: I just want to explain that Lauren will be sharing in the questioning of Jo Rowling – we have been instructed to call you Jo. You don't like “Joanne”?
J.K. Rowling: No one ever called me Joanne when I was young, unless they were angry.