2. Heidi Julavits
3. Plum Sykes
4.Marisha Pessl
5. Lauren Weisberger
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Ben — 2010-11-29 14:51:36 UTC
Rol82, none of these women are even remotely attractive.
Who else though can't read women writers? I literally have never read a novel written by a woman and I prefer texts/news that're written by men too!
Women waft and most have either too little confidence or too much when it comes to the tone their prose carries.
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Rational Madman — 2010-12-01 00:57:58 UTC
None of these women are even remotely attractive? You must have a pretty absurd standard for beauty then? Anyway, you're missing the point of the list, because these women were not just selected because of their superficial qualities. Rather, their intelligence was a more heavily weighed criterion, but their physical charms also matter, otherwise I might've put someone like Christina Romer on the list. Part of the appeal of the list is the satiation of the desire for a highly cerebral woman that has the added virtue of being sexually scintillating---which is a rare combination. I mean, do you know of any Nobel laureates that resemble Helen of Troy? For some reason that's alluding me, it just doesn't happen. Of course, women with model-like looks can be fun, but then you have to suffer through conversing with them, which is often a brutal experience.
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Ben — 2010-12-01 15:29:13 UTC
Haha, yeah, sadly none of them even slightly appeal to me. Weisberger comes close but is still far. My ideal is 18-22 and model-like.
You're right though, conversing with women like that is a nightmare. Seem to think that everyone has a debt to them because of their physical appearance and that it somehow makes them a good person. Though, considering how often a hot chick is hit on by the cretinous man, it would be hard to not mistake the attention as being given for a reason other than sex appeal.
Sorry, I've a real axe to grind here. Ach ach ach.