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My “I’d Lez For” List is Proof I Am a Reverse Sexist

I think boys are neat. I think interesting boys are neat. I am not the least bit attracted to the typical Holy Trinity of tanned, muscular, and chiseled. I’m more into the pasty, tall and slightly cream-puffed, bearded boy and please oh please let him be at least a little blonde. Typical is uninteresting. When it comes to the ladies I’d go gay for, however, my double standard is embarrassingly revealed. I like ‘em hot. Your standard hot. Zooey Deschanel is totes adorbz for sure, but if I’m going to take the plunge and…well…take the plunge, I expect my ladies to be at least a kangaroo to my opossum on the Marsupial Scale of Hotness, © 2011 (the assumption being, of course, that you find ‘roos hotter than ‘possums).

More importantly, a dude’s personality and level of intelligence and utter disinterest in religion is far more important to me than physical attractiveness. Brains first, body second. Always. Women, not so much. The ladies on this list, however, could have the combined IQ of a bag of glazed doughnuts and I’d still be like, “Yeah, ok.” Does this make me a reverse sexist? Maybe. Do I care? No. Because Gurlz R Dumb.

Case in point:

 

Scarlett Johansson

One might think what attracts me to her is her bizarre romanto-friendship with Salman Rushdie. Sexy, no doubt. But really it’s the fact that her lips make me think someone stapled hotdogs to her face. And the fact that I wouldn’t feel at all bad about telling her to shut the hell up if she started talking about stupid stuff like her hairstylist or fair trade coffee.

 

January Jones

But only if she dresses like Betty Draper. Does this mean I want a house wife?

 

The Redhead from Zombieland

There goes my reverse sexism, rearing its ugly head again, because I feel not at all guilty about not bothering to look this chicks’ name up, so I just Googled “Redhead from Zombieland.” Again, I expect some level of fictionality here, because what I like about her actually stems from my innate desire to sexily fire off a steady stream of shotgun shells at a horde of zombies.

 

Jessica Alba

Duh. Obvi.

 

Angelina Jolie

In reality, Angie scares the ever loving shit out of me. She has tattoos I can’t read, a husband I would have been very very pleased to beat the shit out of had I happened to wander into a scene in Fight Club, and way too many fucking babies. Having sex with Angie would be like having sex with a robot you didn’t know was a robot until it bit you and you had to remove its teeth with the Jaws of Life. She is a warrior and an enigma, like Gilgamesh or the Archangel Gabriel. I would probably just spend an entire night playing Marry, Fuck or Kill with her, my rapt attention hanging on her every answer.

Katie Sisneros

 

8 responses to “My “I’d Lez For” List is Proof I Am a Reverse Sexist”

  1. Becky Lang Avatar

    i confess, my first thought wasn’t, “you’re obvs. attracted to scarlett for her friendship with salman rushdie.” lol.

    and it’s emma stone, silly. which reminds me, I should have added chick from Party Down to mine. I always forget her name too, although like ten people angrily tweeted it at me once.

    1. Will Bechtold Avatar

      Lizzy Caplan is kewl

  2. chris bastedo Avatar

    C’mon, Alba? I remember being into her when I had no originality. I’d at least want to bone or be boned by (conceptually, of course) some dudes who are at least a little bit interesting.

    1. Katie Sisneros Avatar

      Didn’t you read my rationale? I have double standards; I am a reverse sexist. I’m not into interesting ladies. Only interesting dudes.

  3. harpoontang Avatar
    harpoontang

    Reverse sexism is sexism AGAINST men, and does not actually exist by defintion. What you are is a female chauvinist pig.

    1. Katie Sisneros Avatar

      sexism against men isn’t reverse, it’s just sexism. The word does not inherently specify against whom the sexism is acting. But yes, I am a female chauvinist pig.

      1. harpoontang Avatar
        harpoontang

        Really? So what is reverse sexism by definition then? I think you need to do more reading. I suggest starting with some 101 stuff: http://thegenderblenderblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/another-101-fact-there-is-no-such-thing-as-reverse-sexism/

        1. Katie Sisneros Avatar

          Technically, sexism is just bias against a sex. So really, I should have just called myself a “sexist.” But it’s more descriptive if I call myself a reverse sexist, because people mostly attribute sexism to bias against the *opposite* sex. Based on that more specific definition, I would be a reverse sexist.

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