Julian Assange, Sex Symbol?
Not to me, no. But to some, Assange's allegedly naughty behavior between the sheets is all kinds of titillating.
Tracy Quan at The Daily Beast asks:
Are allegations of sexual misconduct involving two different women in Stockholm turning Julian Assange into a new kind of celebrity pin-up? Is the WikiLeaks founder now a civilian porn star?...
Subversive guys with cavalier notions about female consent are nothing new. Think of late Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, who described rape as “insurrectionary” in his bestselling memoir, Soul on Ice. Nor have women always been put off by such attitudes. Cleaver’s feisty radical lawyer, Beverly Axelrod, started a romance with her client while he was doing time for rape.
Meanwhile, biological anthropologist Helen Fisher thinks that Assange's massive dossier is what makes him sexy:
Fisher sees Assange as “a hunter,” she says, because “look at what he’s done. He’s got information and today, information is power. It’s like raw meat. Or money, and it makes him very powerful, very sexually attractive.”
So what do you think? Julian Assange: sexy or no? Come on, I know his sickly pallor, blotchy skin, and greasy hair get you going. Personally, I can't quite decide if Assange reminds me more of an evil character from a Bond movie, or of "Harry Potter" villain Draco Malfoy's weird, unmentioned uncle (every family has one!).
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Sep '10
Re: Julian Assange, Sex Symbol?
He looks like Gollum before the hair loss and drug addiction.
Jul '10
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Personally, if I gotta go the guy route, I'd rather sleep with Chris Christie.
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Yes, he's very Gollum-like. Something about his skin...he just looks like kind of sickly! Definitely NOT sexy!
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Christie's not a bad looking man.
Jul '10
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Emily Esfahani Smith, Ed.
Christie's not a bad looking man. · Dec 14 at 8:35am
Yeah, in that picture, he looks like an over-inflated Sylvester Stallone.
Oct '10
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Beady eyes, sallow complexion, and the physique of a 10 year old girl... how can any woman resist him?
Jun '10
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Assange makes my flesh crawl. Even those pundit remarks about Bill Clinton in his blue jeans -- something about the jeans crackling with electricity -- and pictures of his flabby, doughy boddy in jogging shorts were less repulsive.
Christie has a pleasant face. Not really good looking in my opinion, but he'd be somewhat attractive if he lost more than a few pounds.
Isn't politics said to be Hollywood for ugly people?
May '10
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Julian inherited none of Lucius Malfoy's fashion sense, but extra helpings of Bill Maher's 'baggery. He's an Austin Powers wannabe (so, in essence, a wannabe wannabe). I stand firmly with Gutfeld. It tears at my soul that he has groupies. Euro-groupies, but groupies nonetheless.
I still haven't heard of any revelation he's published that damages the US. Just stuff that puts the little guys in danger. Creep.
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Having spent most of my life in one university or college or another, I have had ample opportunity to study the mating habits of radical chic women. All that I can say is that their tastes are peculiar.
Aug '10
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Mr. Rahe, I now have the voice of David Attenborough running through my head, giving a lecture on the mating habits of radical chic women.
Good job!
Jun '10
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What is it with women and "bad" boys? Some guy gets arrested and jailed for sadistic murder and mutilation of twelve women and there are sixteen more women looking to start a pen-pal relationship with the guy. Now, I know guys have an entirely different problem, i.e. thinking with parts of their anatomy not grey in colour, but I have yet to hear about ten or twelve guys lined up to date Lorina Bobbit. That's cuttin' way too close to home for a guy to be a viable proposition. Is it that guys are some kind of outreach program for women? What are women thinking? Do women really think that a guy who snorts up a coffee table twice a day will magically change after marriage? Why? because he's misunderstood or he'll never have it so good as he has it with you? And in what way are you special? Ah! yes, I know, you can offer him something he can't get anywhere else. Now I see it, I've lost my argument to a blinding vision of pulchritude, sorry to subject you all to my angst. I'm fine now.
Sep '10
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I like the answer Rush Limbaugh gave once:
Because women are dumb...
(Dramatic pause, audience gasps everyone on pins and needles)
...about men!
Dec '10
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I, for one, was shocked that his "crime" involved a woman. Just goes to show how good my gaydar is.
Also, I assume he's not allowed within 100 feet of an elementary school.
Edited on Dec 14, 2010 at 12:06pmMay '10
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We wimpy, pasty guys revel in it.
May '10
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Cas, the simple answer is that women would rather share a Julian Assange than be stuck with a patriotic Bradley Manning. You should check out Assange's profile on OKCupid, pretty hilarious. He's doing what any nebbish, pasty white male is going to do to elevate himself in the eyes of women who think their feminine wiles (to put it mildly) are going to be so irresistible that men would settle for them. Tiger Woods, Eliot Spitzer, Charlie Sheen, the list goes on. Why should Tiger opt for a Perkins waitress when he had Elin at home?
Jun '10
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Given the fashion of the time I suppose he is vampiric, and in most stories it is the campy vampire that gets the girl...evil, light sensitive and international.
As I reflect on it, this guy’s got it all…probably plays lead guitar, too.
May '10
Re: Julian Assange, Sex Symbol?
Note Whoopi Goldberg's feminist assertion that John Edwards was more hurt by his public embarassment of having an affair than Elizabeth Edwards was by John's betrayal of his marriage. Assange not only bedded two women, he got them to pay him for it. He's come a long way since his boring, anonymous 2006 OKCupid profile. Why WOULDN'T he continue this kind of behavior? No one called for Charlie Sheen's head when he got caught in a hotel room with a scared prostitute. His TV show's ratings are higher and higher. Modern urban feminists love these guys.
Jun '10
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Cas -- Please ammend your post to read SOME women. My dull, suburban world may not include jet setters like Assange, but it is filled with good solid men who are greatly appreciated by equally good solid women. It just doesn't make the news.
Tim -- My daughter does fancy a certain lead guitarist over other suitors, but I assure you that none of them carry even a hint of campy vampire vibe.
Jun '10
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StickerShock, you are right. Although I'll leave my post as is, consider my thinking amended.
Oct '10
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Pale skin is no good for men. But light alabaster skin looks great for women.