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A glaring omission in this article was the lack of coverage given to the great many people who are attracted to others not because of mere aesthetics but because they find certain strengths of character irresistible. For a good majority of women, “GSOH” (good sense of humour) is an almost clichéd attraction that is listed as a starting-point requirement in any dating site. Likewise, courage and intelligence are attributes that powerfully attract (something that having a GSOH can prove). As a white woman (English), I found Patrick Hutchinson, the black campaigner for BLM who recently & famously rescued a white counter-protester, enormously attractive; not specifically because he was tall, dark and handsome (which, as it happens, he is) and certainly not because I’m a fan of BLM as a movement (I’m not) but because I found him both courageous and, later in an interview with Prince Harry, articulate. I also happen to find C.S. Lewis and Bear Grylls – two diametrically opposites – equally attractive, all for reasons to do with their individual character strengths. In short, such attributes of character not only tend to trump physical attractiveness but actually go enhance the physical attractiveness of those who fall short of Adonis status. If we didn’t understand and agree with this assertion, then the story of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” would never have been able to offer the meta-narrative it did that makes it such a classic. As such, I find that articles such as this one of Mr Leonard’s end up doing us all a disservice by propagating a fashionable but false narrative.
When is a person asking another person out on a date an individual, and when are they a representative of an inter-sectionalised group?
A glaring omission in this article was the lack of coverage given to the great many people who are attracted to others not because of mere aesthetics but because they find certain strengths of character irresistible. For a good majority of women, “GSOH” (good sense of humour) is an almost clichéd attraction that is listed as a starting-point requirement in any dating site. Likewise, courage and intelligence are attributes that powerfully attract (something that having a GSOH can prove). As a white woman (English), I found Patrick Hutchinson, the black campaigner for BLM who recently & famously rescued a white counter-protester, enormously attractive; not specifically because he was tall, dark and handsome (which, as it happens, he is) and certainly not because I’m a fan of BLM as a movement (I’m not) but because I found him both courageous and, later in an interview with Prince Harry, articulate. I also happen to find C.S. Lewis and Bear Grylls – two diametrically opposites – equally attractive, all for reasons to do with their individual character strengths. In short, such attributes of character not only tend to trump physical attractiveness but actually go enhance the physical attractiveness of those who fall short of Adonis status. If we didn’t understand and agree with this assertion, then the story of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” would never have been able to offer the meta-narrative it did that makes it such a classic. As such, I find that articles such as this one by Mr Leonard end up doing us all a disservice by propagating a fashionable but utterly false narrative.
A glaring omission in this article was the lack of coverage given to the great many people who are attracted to others not because of mere aesthetics but because they find certain strengths of character irresistible. For a good majority of women, “GSOH” (good sense of humour) is an almost clichéd attraction that is listed as a starting-point requirement in any dating site. Likewise, courage and intelligence are attributes that powerfully attract (something that having a GSOH can prove). As a white woman (English), I found Patrick Hutchinson, the black campaigner for BLM who recently & famously rescued a white counter-protester, enormously attractive; not specifically because he was tall, dark and handsome (which, as it happens, he is) and certainly not because I’m a fan of BLM as a movement (I’m not) but because I found him both courageous and, later in an interview with Prince Harry, articulate. I also happen to find C.S. Lewis and Bear Grylls – two diametrically opposites – equally attractive, all for reasons to do with their individual character strengths. In short, such attributes of character not only tend to trump physical attractiveness but actually go enhance the physical attractiveness of those who fall short of Adonis status. If we didn’t understand and agree with this assertion, then the story of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” would never have been able to offer the meta-narrative it did that makes it such a classic. As such, I find that articles such as this one of Mr Leonard’s end up doing us all a disservice by propagating a fashionable but false narrative.
When is a person asking another person out on a date an individual, and when are they a representative of an inter-sectionalised group?
A glaring omission in this article was the lack of coverage given to the great many people who are attracted to others not because of mere aesthetics but because they find certain strengths of character irresistible. For a good majority of women, “GSOH” (good sense of humour) is an almost clichéd attraction that is listed as a starting-point requirement in any dating site. Likewise, courage and intelligence are attributes that powerfully attract (something that having a GSOH can prove). As a white woman (English), I found Patrick Hutchinson, the black campaigner for BLM who recently & famously rescued a white counter-protester, enormously attractive; not specifically because he was tall, dark and handsome (which, as it happens, he is) and certainly not because I’m a fan of BLM as a movement (I’m not) but because I found him both courageous and, later in an interview with Prince Harry, articulate. I also happen to find C.S. Lewis and Bear Grylls – two diametrically opposites – equally attractive, all for reasons to do with their individual character strengths. In short, such attributes of character not only tend to trump physical attractiveness but actually go enhance the physical attractiveness of those who fall short of Adonis status. If we didn’t understand and agree with this assertion, then the story of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” would never have been able to offer the meta-narrative it did that makes it such a classic. As such, I find that articles such as this one by Mr Leonard end up doing us all a disservice by propagating a fashionable but utterly false narrative.