To not understand why Clark Gable was considered handsome? <trivial thread>

[Salmotrutta]

I mean, he wasnt really was he? Somewhat rubbery looking if you ask me

I'm sure I read somewhere he had terribly bad breath too ...

I shold explain I've been dipping in and out of Teacher's Pet on TV (Doris Day and Clark Gable)

Give me Yul Brynner/Steve McQueen/James Stewart etc. anyday!

I do get a bit suspect at all the old bodice ripper books and movies where the heroine is kissed and seduced into submission because the guy knows thats what she really wants of course. Used to think it was romantic in my younger days, now it's just plain disturbing and creepy.

I see your point sozzled, there was a thread on here a while back debating whether the term "ravished" was just another word for rape. One poster was adamant that it was, whereas others (myself included) thought it was dependent on context.
If I were to say I'd like Jonny Depp to ravish me, I'm not saying I want to be raped, I'm saying I'd let him give me a darn good seeing to, which cannot be rape as I have consented to it.

IYSWIM

yes, SantasCave - it's a tricky word for 'straight males' - the alternative would be 'seductively taken advantage of' - by Aliona (yes sorry), Noomi Rapace, or my dear Mariella Frostrup. [still]

i remember that thread, might even have been the poster getting her knickers in a twist about the use of 'ravished'.

Isn't 'ravishing' a descriptive word for a person? Therefore it cannot mean rape? Or am I totally wrong there?

MRB - it's two separate words? 'Ravished' - implies some force being used. 'Ravishing', as you say a descriptive word.

Ahh, I see. Thank you for the clarification.

They must have a sort of joint meaning though no? Being that they seem to come from the same word?

It was originally a crime 'to ravish' and dealt with as rape would be as they were considered the same. Most people don't realise it's proper or original meaning. I new someone who was attacked in the street and that was the charge, assault with intent to ravish. Don't know if it still stands as such.

guess so! quite like 'ravishing' - but some confusion - ravishing could be used as a verb as well as an adjective.

I give you Ray Winstone.

Can't be doing with him personally. But ... he apppears to be beloved of filmmakers.

and then there are the big busty blondes of the 60's - Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Munroe and our very own Brits answer Diana Dors...