Uberfluff

The "She's a man, baby," pic of Eliot Spitzer's mistress forces me to wonder about why on earth some people are widely considered hot.  I'm not going to accept any subjectiveness about taste here.  I agree that this can be a factor in your personal attraction to someone, but looks are objective.  People who try to tell you that Brad Pitt or Halle Berry just aren't good looking are deeply in denial or trying to impress you with their offbeat taste.  Of course, they're objectively good looking--they may not be your  type, but don't tell me that you'd shoot down Halle Berry if she came on to you.  (I'll admit the, "but she's crazy," personality component starts to come in to play here a bit, but let's not get sidetracked.  She's an incredibly good-looking human being, and that's objective fact.)

But what interests me more than people claiming that beautiful people aren't beautiful are  the less-than-beautiful people that people go crazy about.  I'm not thinking here of ordinary people in your life--that's a totally different dynamic.  I'm thinking here of . . . well . . . people like incredibly annoying pop musician Fergie.

I've known guys who would put Fergie in their Top 5 Hottest Women on Earth cheat list.  That's what I don't get.  She's not royally ugly, and she has a good body.  But this is a fantasy girl.  There's no way on earth that your average guy is going to get this girl.  So why are you wasting fantasy slot on her?  There are easily a dozen actresses, models, or musicians who are objectively better looking.  And I'm not even going to mention how she peed herself at that concert.  (Oops, guess I did anyway.)  I know it's not her talent.  (Yeah, "ooh, the flossy, flossy," is pure poetry.)  It makes no damned sense at all.  A lot of these guys have fantasy football teams, and you don't see them picking Kyle Orton over Tom Brady or Peyton Manning just because he seems more approachable.  So why on earth do they downgrade on their sexual fantasy team?

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