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Jul. 16th, 2007 04:01 pmAfterEllen.com did a response to the Maxim Hot 100 that's pretty fun to browse through. We're so used to seeing the women that men have picked out as hot that I, personally, couldn't be more fascinated by the chances I get to see where women's tastes in hot chicks overlaps and differs.
One thing I noticed from a fannish perspective particularly is that women -- maybe just the women who vote in internet polls, but I think women in general -- are (nature? nurture? both? could care less? right, that last one for me) more responsive to character and personality. I mean, that's why there are fans who think quite average-looking men like Peter Wingfield or Garrett Maggart or David Nykl are SMOKING HOT: because we love *them,* and that makes us hot for them. I think that's why you'll find everyone who was ever on The L Word on the AfterEllen list, as well as lots of other people who gained and cemented their lesbian cred because of one lesbian or lesbian-icon role (don't think we won't love Scully UNTIL WE DIE, unlike those faithless bastards at Maxim); they'll always be hot to us -- they're our whatever the dyke equivalent of a BSO is. BDO? BQO?
Anyway, of course tastes are always different, so half the fun of these lists is going through them, alternating between "GOD, YES" and "Her? Are you HIGH?" Below the cut-tag is the list, and I bolded the ones that I personally am attracted to. Obviously "attracted" covers a range of meanings, especially when everyone on this list is both pretty and, for the most part, righteously awesome. But I sort of confined my responses to the ones I had a really carnal GUH! type reaction toward. Try it yourself -- yeah, why not, even you mostly-straight girls! How dykey are your tastes in women?
( 100 Women that 1000 Lesbians Wanna Fuck )
One thing I noticed from a fannish perspective particularly is that women -- maybe just the women who vote in internet polls, but I think women in general -- are (nature? nurture? both? could care less? right, that last one for me) more responsive to character and personality. I mean, that's why there are fans who think quite average-looking men like Peter Wingfield or Garrett Maggart or David Nykl are SMOKING HOT: because we love *them,* and that makes us hot for them. I think that's why you'll find everyone who was ever on The L Word on the AfterEllen list, as well as lots of other people who gained and cemented their lesbian cred because of one lesbian or lesbian-icon role (don't think we won't love Scully UNTIL WE DIE, unlike those faithless bastards at Maxim); they'll always be hot to us -- they're our whatever the dyke equivalent of a BSO is. BDO? BQO?
Anyway, of course tastes are always different, so half the fun of these lists is going through them, alternating between "GOD, YES" and "Her? Are you HIGH?" Below the cut-tag is the list, and I bolded the ones that I personally am attracted to. Obviously "attracted" covers a range of meanings, especially when everyone on this list is both pretty and, for the most part, righteously awesome. But I sort of confined my responses to the ones I had a really carnal GUH! type reaction toward. Try it yourself -- yeah, why not, even you mostly-straight girls! How dykey are your tastes in women?
( 100 Women that 1000 Lesbians Wanna Fuck )
