Eternal Padawan wrote:This phenomenon you refer to is what I like to refer to as "Ice Skater Cute" Watching petite little ice skaters in "revealing" outfits zip around the ice at a distance makes them look really tasty. but then when you get to them up close you're all "ugh". This also applies to Gymnasts and swimmers.
I must respectfully disagree.
You see, the phenomenon you mention, while common (and I shall henceforth adopt your name of "Ice Skater Cute"), results in a different conclusion. You see, under this phenomenon, the female in question is attractive at a distance, but nauseating up close. This is especially common among female athletes.
Similar to both the other unexplainable phenomena in question is the "butterface." A woman is, as you are likely aware, a butterface if she is attractive from the neck down, and a harpy above. For instance, the Asian woman from Sideways, who is pretty decent up to an altitude of approximately 4.5', above which she resembles the unholy coupling of a horse and a praying mantis.
No, "fugly-sexy" is even stranger. A woman is fugly-sexy if she is just plain, unarguably unattractive, but possessing some intangible quality (often related to personality, or maybe to voice) that inspires one to simultaneously think the seemingly incongruous thoughts "Dear sweet God, why do her keepers let her out of the house?" and ""I'd give my left nut to press her up against a wall, pull off her panties, and fuck her brains out until one or both of us died of starvation."
Using the aforementioned Joan Osborne as an example, we have an unmistakably "ugly" woman. Her teeth make British people say, "Dear me, you have some bad teeth." She is chubby, and not in a sexy "Marilyn Monroe" sort of way. On top of that, her face looks as if it belongs to someone who weighs at least three times what she weighs. Her hair is permanently disfigured as the result of a truly unfortunate perm accident years ago, and she made the questionable decision to sport a truly unflattering nose-ring. And, she probably has worms.
And yet, sir, I challenge you to watch the video for "Right Hand Man" without fantasizing about all the things that one could possibly do sexually with this woman. It makes no sense in an evolutionary sense, as it would tend to point toward survival of the ugliest, but it does exist.
This is not to be confused with "devolving," in which a woman declines at a remarkably fast rate, usually before her prime, and without any visible cause (such as drug use or illness), often bypassing the butterface categorization entirely. Cameron Diaz is a prime example of this unfortunate phenomenon. You would be hard-pressed to find a sexier woman than Diaz in
The Mask. But now? Ewww. Just ewww. And she's boinking Justin Timberlake, which makes it even worse.
to the nth power.
