Day Thirty-One: Prince Charming

I was thinking about this while sitting in the doctor's office waiting room the other day. I was playing with my iPhone passing the oppressive minutes of waiting for your turn to see the doctor with a game of Bejeweled. I am quite accustomed to people watching. It is one of my favorite activities. People are so interesting. So diverse. Some very gorgeous, some very strange-looking but still interesting. I could never call someone ugly. Not really. Around the time that I was returning the clipboard with all my information on it to the nurse in the red uniform at the front counter, a man walked in that didn't speak English very well. I heard him speaking quietly to the receptionist trying to communicate his problem. I signed the papers and handed the clipboard to the nurse and threw a glance at the man. He was leaning over the counter so I couldn't see his face, but he was tall. I noticed that much. He was tall and thick-bodied. Not skinny. Not fat. He had a huge butt. Bigger than mine and I'm a big girl. I took my seat next to the squeaky nurse's station door and continued playing Bejeweled. I heard over the buzz of my mind matching like colors that the receptionist was reading out the form to him, because he didn't understand what he was supposed to do. I felt a twinge of sympathy for the guy. After about 15 minutes he turned around and took the seat 3 chairs away from me. I got a good look at his face and I had a jolt of "Oh that's nice" in the pit of my stomach. It wasn't like..."Oh I want to fuck that guy right now" or anything like that really. It was more like a moment of attraction. A recognition of sexual preference. And it got me to thinking about the kind of men I prefer. Every woman has it...a preference. Every man has his preference in woman. Or vice versa if you're of the homosexual orientation. It's just those physical characteristics that do it for you. Although I will admit that sexual attraction is not solely a skin-deep issue. There are personality aspects of it and mannerisms. For instance, a guy could be completely physically attractive to me but once he opens his mouth and he's either a dumb fuck or really mean or petty...he's no longer attractive. But that's a level of attraction that I'm not going to cover in this entry. I'm talking about physical things that make me fall for a guy.
I also will admit that I have to be physically attracted to a guy to have a relationship with him. You could be the sweetest guy in the world to me, if I have to look at you everyday and when I do I go "ew", it's not going to work. It just isn't. I know "blah blah beauty isn't forever" and everything like that...but I'm sorry. That's just the way it is. I can't love someone and get close to them if there isn't that initial physical attraction. *cue the hate comments* I'm not a shallow person but that's just the way it is. I'm sorry. But I don't really care what you think.
Now there are two aspects of what I like in a man. First are more general characteristics that every man has. First and foremost, I'm a smile person. Before I notice anything else, I notice your smile. If you have a great smile you're 50% in my heart. If you've got messed up teeth...sorry..I can't be attracted to you. Dental care is a sign that you actually care about the way you look. If you've got yellow teeth and they've got fungus growing on them, that just means that you're disgusting. If they're all snaggled and messed up, that just means you need to go to the dentist and get your mouth reconstructed. They do that now. It's called braces. Now they even have the invisible ones so you have no excuse. Second of all I notice eyes. They don't have to be a specific color really, although I do tend to like guys with light eyes like gray, blue and green. But honestly I don't care. It's really the shape that gets me. I don't like guys with small close-set eyes. But I don't like bug eyes either. I like them to have a nice shape. I like Asian, almond eyes and I like medium sized round eyes. I also like a guy with a piercing stare. The third aspect that I like about a guy is nose. I like guys with strong noses. I like strong facial features. Guys that are Hispanic and Middle Eastern, Indian, they have GREAT noses. White guys that have German or Scandinavian ancestry have nice strong noses too. I don't call them "big noses" because that sounds negative. And to me it's not a negative feature. It's a nice feature. Guys with angular faces really look nice to me. Strong cheek bones and chins.
Now let's get more specific. I like guys that are tall. I cannot CANNOT date a guy that's shorter than me or the same height. I already feel like a beast because I'm big-boned and have a little more to love on me, I don't need to feel like a Neanderthal towering over my significant other. 5'10 is usually the shortest I will go. I'm 5'4" and I like to be able to put my head on my man's chest when I hug him. In addition to the tall thing, is the skinny thing. I used to like bone-thin guys. I guess I wanted him to compensate for the fact that I was huge. But now I like guys to be thin but not too skinny. They can have some meat on them and I won't be upset lol. I like guys that have broad shoulders and ooh, my utter weakness, nice arms. I don't like RIPPED GUYS. RIPPED GUYS freak me out. I don't want to see like MUSCLES *FLEX FLEX*...I don't date Johnny Bravo. I like guys that are thin, wiry and have a nice shape to their arms. My ex-boyfriend, Jude, has PERFECT arms. They don't appear muscular. They have a nice shape to them but when he flexes, he has some nice bulges along his arms. I love that. I also really like a guy's hands. I hate hands in general but I like guy hands. I like them to be bony with long fingers and I like it when you can see the veins in the tops of his hands. I like his hands to be bigger than mine, broad, and big-boned. Long fingers and knobby. Again, my ex has really nice hands too.
And now even more specific...
If I can find a guy that has all the above characteristics and a good personality, we're usually good. I don't really care what color you are, or what kind of hair you have, unless your hair is like ridiculous. If you have like....a butt cut or a weird square-shaped, buzzed on the sides and tall on the top hair cut I will laugh at you. But generally those kinds of things don't matter. Everything else is just a perk. So I will list some of these perks here. If you are....

1. Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and all the rest of those) you're hot.
2. Indian (You're fucking super hot)
3. Middle Eastern (you're super hot)
4. White (you're cute)
5. Hispanic (you're sexy)

Yes. I like my men colored differently than me. My highest preference is Indian men. That's odd I know. Most white girls don't even look at Indian men. I don't know WHY. That's great though. More for me. LOL. We have a population of these chilling out on campus around the engineering department. Sometimes...I will position myself in the window in Jazzman's coffeehouse just right so I can see the entrance to the engineering building and I will watch them...come in and out of the building with this look on my face :3 Most of them don't speak English. Most of them are afraid of me. That's ok. I don't mind. But these are also the hardest to get. There seems to be this cultural barrier that is pretty much impossible to mix. It's been done before, but it's difficult and I think both parties understand this and that's why we tend to avoid each other and pretend like the other doesn't exist. We smile politely at each other and are civil to each other, but it's one of these "we don't mix" attitudes. Which of course, I don't heed. I will continue my quest for my super fucking hot Indian boyfriend even if I have to rope one of them, kidnap them and force him to make out with me. No that's never going to happen. I'm just kidding lol. But generally I'm extremely turned on by the brown skin with the red undertone and the dark "Prince Aladdin" hair and the big soulful puppy dog brown eyes. YES. *gimme gimme*. Now I don't know why I'm not attracted to black guys. Hmmm....maybe it's a cultural thing. I like black guys if they have dreads....ANYWAY. That's not what we're talking about. Indian guys also always have an intellectual look on their face...either that or intimidated...usually by me....as I try to speak to them and giggle and twirl my hair. And they all have nice pouty lips and strong facial features.
My second preference is Middle Eastern men which in MY opinion is harder to cross than white and Indian. Even though our religions are much more similar than Hindu and Christian, Muslims and Christians are at war with each other which has this like...racial tension thing going on. Indians and Americans don't really have any serious problems with each other...not that I know of anyway. So it's not like you're crossing war zones. But you literally are when you date a Muslim man. Even though they are SO pretty. They're skin is usually lighter than Indian men, which is still nice. I like my man's skin dark, doesn't really matter what shade of dark...anyway. I like how they have strong noses, like the dark thick eyebrows thing. LOVE the Aladdin hair...and yes...Prince Aladdin IS my favorite Disney Prince. I drew him in all my notebooks when I was a kid. This is a deep-seated attraction lol. Goes way back to childhood. I like when they have the loose jet black curls. That's nice. They all look very similar to Indian men. They don't look very ethnically different. In fact...I couldn't really tell if Waiting Room guy was Middle Eastern or Indian. After looking at him for a few moments I decided he was like....Pakistani or something. His name was Shah. Which is cute. :D Like "Sha maaannnn" lol.
Third preference is Asian guys. I know I KNOW Indians are technically Asian too. I think. At least that's what I was told. But they fall into their own separate category for me. Because that's how cute they are. ANYWAY. Again..not what we're talking about. I think it's fascinating how Asians have fallen in my ranks. A few years ago, all I ever wanted was a cute Japanese boyfriend. Now every now and then one will catch my eye. I think it's because I found things I like better. *waggles eyebrows* lol. I like the way their eyes are shaped and again, the natural thick black hair is great. They usually have strong noses as well and are skinny. But I find that they're too short. And too skinny. And I'm kinda big. Well I'm smaller than I used to be but I'm 25% German and I have the bone structure to go with it so I'm never going to be like....8 year old sized. And that's how they typically like their women.
Fourth preference is white guys that have all the previously mentioned characteristics...the height, the hands, the arms....I generally like white guys with light eyes and dark hair. I don't really like blonde guys. But GET THIS.....this is where I don't understand myself.
My ex is 5'11, probably 6 foot now, with longish, loose curly reddish blonde BLONDE hair and big big blue eyes with an angular face and big lips and a strong nose and facial hair and he is one of the most attractive men to me. He's like translucent white too with a pinky undertone. And I would settle with him any day. But I think it's because we're best friends and we do LOVE each other very much. It's that personality thing.
Anyway. That's my man preference. I will probably end up with a white guy based on the fact that I live in America but I really have high hopes that some day Prince Aladdin will indeed come home to me. And by then I'll be skinny so I'll dress up as Princess Jasmine and we'll be awesome. But nevermind because Aladdin isn't Indian........nevermind lol. Never settle for anything less than the BEST! lol
Well that's my rant.

Have a good day everyone!

End Day Thirty-One