Typing 101

January 13, 2012

Yes, i missed yesterday's blog! Get over it! I'm submitting this from Utah so it may look like its being submitted late but it's still 11pm in California! Haha!

So, I was having a conversation with my girlfriend the other day and for some reason we started talking about what each other's type was...y'know, what kind of person we found ourselves attracted to. Now, this is a very risky path to walk and a shallow pool to tread in... no pun intended! If you're talking to your girlfriend about what type of girl you're attracted to and your girlfriend happens to be 5'4, 125 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes and has a freckle on her cheek you better say "my type is a girl who is about 5'4, 125 pounds, blonde hair, blue eyes and has a freckle on her cheek...that freckle is essential to my attraction to a girl!"

Luckily I didn't have to lie to her! ...plus she'll read this so I wouldn't say I'd lied if i had! However, it made me think about people's types. I wondered what my friends looked for in a potential crush (or more).

So, I polled about twenty of my random friends, both dudes and chicks from one spectrum of the late teens to early thirties. I got a ton of different responses ranging from "Taylor Swift! If she's not her then she better be a darn good doppelgänger or equally attractive cousin!" to "I just want someone who makes me laugh and is a good person." I found that most of my friends fell somewhere in the middle. I'll be honest, I was a little surprised that my friends weren't that shallow. I'll summarize and generalize what they said:

Dude Recon
Most dudes don't want a super skinny chick. She has to have some substance to her or as one dude said: "I'm not laying my head on a chick who is as bony as the grim reaper!"
Most dudes prefer a girl who is physically active
Hair color doesn't matter really
All dudes said that a sense of humor is important
Most dudes said the girl had to be shorter than him

Chick-con
Dude>Chick ...for my mathematically challenged friends that is not a chick-alligator eating a dude, that's a greater than sign. It implies that the dude must be taller.
Dude can't be slimmer than the chick but can't be monstrous either. Chicks like to feel safe
Dude must have a job
Hair/eye color don't matter
Chicks like a dude with some muscle but yet again not monstrous!
All chicks said a sense of humor is important

These are generalities of course but those were the consensus opinions. Kinda cool! Well, that's the end of my random thoughts for today!