A few weeks ago, someone told me that I'm "fairly attractive." I understood exactly what he was trying to say, but still, I was shocked with his choice of words. My response was, "Fairly?" "Uh, isn't that a good thing?" he asked, afraid he had said the wrong thing. Curious to see where this conversation would go, I said, "Saying that I'm 'fairly attractive' is equivalent to saying I'm kinda ugly."
I haven't been able to forget this conversation. Sharing this comment with friends never fails to receive roars of laughter. (I'm sorry! I know we're laughing at _____'s expense, but I can't help it! It's too funny!) Some of my friends said, it's great! I barely made the cut. It won't hurt the eyes to look at me! Ha ha. Well, it might help to say that he prefaced this comment by saying, "You have a nice smile." If I want to look at it a different way, he could have meant, "You have a nice smile, but everything else is ugly." "You sure have beautiful hair, but looks like everything else got beat with the ugly stick. Twice." "Your eyes are breathtaking, but the rest of your face? Crap. Wear a paper bag over your head and cut two holes for your eyes. Will ya?"
The poor guy. He intended it to be a compliment, but as one of my good friends said, "Oh my god, _____. What have you done?" Without knowing what he intended to say, how would you react if someone told you that you're "fairly attractive?"
5 comments:
Your friend is a moron. First of all, even if that's what you think, you NEVER say that to a woman. When a person asks someone else how they look, they expect one of two answers. Either "Fantastic, gorgeous, awesome" or a LIE! If you don't think they are that pretty, you either say nothing, or if they asked you, then you make up a nice answer. Fairly attractive is not among those answers, by the way.
Besides, Josephine. He must be blind. Because you are beautiful. Inside and outside.
Except when you are hating me, then, not so much. (In Borat voice)
:-)
Fairly attractive huh? I completely disagree.
I was waiting for the joke after reggie's comment. You know, fairly attractive. I disagree, zero attractive. glad he didn't go there - LP
hmm, not to defend the guy, but I assume he's a decent guy who was probably really meaning a compliment but not trying to go overboard..then he stumbled a bit. Usually, you can see that 'between the lines' if he was genuine
I have no idea who you are, I found this web page by googling the phrase "fairly attractive", but based upon your profile photo, you are extremely beautiful.
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