Who's your type?

[cleolinda]

All right--this is a touch time-consuming, but not really, and it's fascinating. It's a Match.com test (which I ganked from theferrett's journal) that tells you what your physical type is. A lot of the faces they flash past you are kinda freaky--I for one do not believe that all of them are real people. Many of them look like something a computer program on acid put together. Either that, or there are some maaaaajor birth defects going on in this country. (Seriously: if your forehead takes up a clear 60% of your face, and your eyes are huge and yet somehow squinched together? You have problems.) I think they were trying to get specific traits together in one face, and... yeah. These are not tastes that taste great together. Yar.

The interesting thing about the test is that it confirmed things I already knew about myself... and managed to come up with several surprises. The kind of surprises that make you go, "Really? I don't know about th...hey, that guy really is kinda hot." For example, apparently the "pretty boy"/"boy next door" is my type, with a minor concentration in Asian men--and I had no idea about that last one. The weird thing is, a full 62% of women, by their calculations, are not attracted to my type of guy. Ha! More for me.

What I found interesting was that I really dig the very tall, very lean, very rugged look--and I didn't see anything on that test that represented that look to me. Maybe it was there and I didn't recognize it, I don't know. I will say that I had an enduring crush on this guy in high school with long blond hair and Adonis arms and a face just like the one that came up my type--but I've never dated anyone who was "my" type. Which may say something about my priorities (personality is more important. Or something).

I'm going to take the female test now. Why? Because I bet it'll say a lot about the kind of women I write about.

Comments

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

My report:

• Your photo choices suggest a man over 30 is probably getting a little old for your tastes
  
• You seemed interested in dating a man at least 30 or older
  
  *scratches head* How does that one work?
  
  

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you can only date 30-year-olds, and must dump each guy on his 31st birthday. ;)

I think my range was something like 25-40 (I'm 25).

[eclectica.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that test is very interesting -- and kinda depressing. It confirmed the fact that I'm "picky" about the guys I like (according to the test, they have to be very handsome, no matter what ethnicity) and have "unique" features. Gah, that type of dude is so rare. *wistful sigh*

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was picky, too. I'm actually not all that worried, because apparently people I date and the pretty boys I find attractive don't seem to have much to do with each other. If anything, it explains why I like Lord of the Rings so much. ;)

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Huh. According to that, I'm intesrest in the supermodel type. So how come I'm only interested in cute geekgirls in real life?

[thelxepeiakat.livejournal.com]

I got the "boy next door," too, except apparently I like the "surfer dude" look. I'm 19, and my age range was 25-40. It told me some things I already knew (dark hair, light skin, glasses), but 25 to 40? I don't think so. I'm not dating some 40-year-old skank man with black gunk around his teeth and graying hair.

A lot of those guys are really hideous. The one guy with the lopsided eyes freaked me out.

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[despotliz.livejournal.com]

I don't wanna date a 30 year old! I'm 20! I merely want to lust after the more ruggedly handsome older men (see: Viggo Mortensen, George Clooney).

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'll drink to that. :)

[rockgeisha.livejournal.com]

You liked a group of gray or salt-n-pepper-haired men we call "Silver Foxes."

Well, yeah--I knew that!

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[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, I was surprised when the results cut me off at forty. I've had a huge thing for older guys since my early teens. But then, I'm finding that "what I find attractive" seems to have relevance only in terms of celebrity crushes, and I let personality lead the way in real life.