Do you think it is acceptable to discuss a celebrity who is NOT trading on her looks / sex appeal by their f+ck@bility?

[GhostofHedTwig]

say a politician, author, inventor

someone who has become famous due to their cerebral efforts and doesn't trade on their looks

do you think it is OK to then discuss them solely based on whether you'd like to shag them?

[2shoes]

yes lets discuss malfoys dad in harry potter. then

[GhostofHedTwig]

?

[Butterbeertroot]

you leave Jason Issacs alone

[ELR]

why would anyone care? surely such a conversation would be in jest and or bad taste!
I suppose it also depends why when and how you were discussing that person

[anorak]

It's a free country. It's not an offence to speak in any way you choose. However I find it quite boring the way people discuss celebrities all day long as if their sex life were a matter of huge importance or the way they look were the only thing that mattered.

[2shoes]

oh please lets discuss him

[JoolsToo]

someone like Ann Widdecombe you mean?

[Enid]

yes

[Kewcumber]

I personally don;t think its fair game (similarly the pasting Cherie Blair gets about how she looks. Does it matter provided she's reasonably presentable- she's not trying to get a modelling contract?)

however I think people should be allowed to discuss it as it gives me an idea of who not to invite to my bestest friends tea-party.

[Enid]

I think its a bit odd to go on aobut how UN shaggable someone is if they arent trying to be shaggable

I think its fine to say someone IS shaggable even if they arent trying to be

although the media pick up on it and then go on and on about their fuckability ie Gordon blody ramsey

[DaddyJ]

Zeitgeist, Ghost.
Everything gets sexualised, mainly to attract interest.

If you are referring to a recent thread
I have to confess, there is mileage in discussing
whether J.K. Rowling is fuckable or not.
Weird, I know, but undeniable.

[GhostofHedTwig]

I thought the JK Rowling thread set women back about 100 years to be honest

[DaddyJ]

Well...you could argue that it might have been
more appropriate on a different forum.
Or maybe not, given recent threads along similar lines.

Why do women discuss the fuckability of Gordon Ramsey or Gordon Brown?
Does that set men back 1000 years?

[harpsichordcuddler]

hmm, well I think it is probably ok to discuss men like this but not women
that's the downside of several millennia of oppression.
live with it guys

[DaddyJ]

Boo hoo, not fair!
We didn't mean to oppress you, we love you really!
All forgiven..?


Discussing JK Rowling sex appeal could in fact
be another side effect of what harpsi refers to:

Now it's us men who lust after rich old women!
Surely, that's progress from a feminist pov, non?

[Piffle]

Hell yes
I'd do Jon Snow and so would my mum. WE ogle him all the time
but only for his brain

oh but I guess you mean women which obviously is very different

[Kewcumber]

are we descibing JKR as an old woman now? Blimey no hope for me then

[harpsichordcuddler]

I didn't see the thread
was it depressing
I do often lust after clever blokes
Simon Schama
Andrew Marr
Charles Hazelwood
I wasslavering over David Robertson watching the proms last night
am I unreconstructed?
am I objectifying??

[MrsBadger]

(hiya harpsi, you not under water yet?)

[harpsichordcuddler]

[MrsBadger]

[harpsichordcuddler]

[pointydog]

Yes it is acceptable.

Of limited interest though.

[pointydog]

However, on a site used mainly by women it is not advisable for a man to start such a thread.

On a more male-dominated site, thaT thread would have bombed. ON mn it causes a furore.

[DaddyJ]

Sorry, Kewcumber, I should have said 'older' women.

Ghost, in many ways people/slebs
who have achieved something without trading on their looks
are so much sexier than the perma-exposed lot.