A classmate of mine likes one of our professors - a rather brusque, highly opionated and mostly angry woman of forty plus, who teaches culture studies. Her chain smoking tendency is a factor, he says. It also appears that middle aged professors who talk of eating breakfast with their children score high on the Sexy Scale with the girls. Dark jeans add to such appeal. There too is a consensus about dark rimmed glasses and how they intensify the academic image.
Imperfections are big as well. Absentmined pauses are intriguing. Nervour tics are inspiring. Sexy is varied, let me just say.
The fact is that Academic Sexy is different from Regular Sexy. What is acceptable (even encouraging) about the former is intolerable about the latter. Because not specialising in some obscure field of material science disqualifies you from having distasteful quirks and a receding hairline. I myself can willingly endure otherwise ugly V-neck sweaters and an obsessively numerical worldview.
However, the crisis as some of us later discussed, is exposure. How much is enough? Full time professor? Personal tutor? Or simply a guest lecturer? (who you can stalk later perhaps?)
The question is - What's your Sexy?
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Intriguing.. There are lots of cases where the students have 'feelings' for a particular teacher and vice versa. This is very common actually. Do you think that its fair for a teacher to lead a student on, being fully aware of the student's feelings, especially when the teacher is married? I read somewhere that in 1993 there was a particular case study in which students or teachers who found interest in the other were either bored or lonely and that most of these relationships ended abruptly due to various reasons, the most imortant being that the initial attraction was simply infatuation and nothing deeper. The human brain is fascinating because it will give you as much pleasure as you seek and thats how it lets you believe whatever you want to believe.
but academic sexy is so appealing. and it's an easy trap to fall for.
hmm....i'll have to think hard about my sexy.
I agree entirely about how you can believe whatever you want to believe. Explains alot in the world, don't you think?
Hello Hobo,
Sure, take your time. Such a thing takes lifetimes to figure out. Though yes, Academic Sexy is the best, ideally.
oh well... yeah, academic sexy is very appealing, just as academic boring is truly the pits. well... my sexy can't be academic sexy right now, although that might be a few years down the line. It's because I've realised I tend to really like (not just in a 'yeah, objectively speaking, s/he's sexy' way) only those people who are around my age or slightly older or younger... so, maybe, a budding reseacrher would be fine now. But not yet a full-blown academic. - Ani.
Academic sexy. I desperately need one right now. If only to turn up for lectures more often.
Aniruddha,
This 'budding researcher' might just be a psuedo academic. Be warned. I am shore foreign shores will bring you a delightful array of choice in this matter. ;)
Fatma,
If you look closely enough, there are little incentives (if not whole living breathing persons) to go to class - a set of perfect teeth, the scent of Issey Miyake wafting your way in a lecture or maybe just a sexy voice (which you can appreciate with your eyes shut). Though I can't resist telling you I have professor who looks like an 'academic version of Jude Law' in the words of most of the female population in class!
*The first 'shore' was actually 'sure'. Talk about nonsensical Freudian slips!
so here's an interesting question people world over have tried to answer - and many have even paid for. mostly to find out the other sides opinion, and not really their explore their own, but what the hell.
to be honest, the only way I would find someone academically sexy - is if they were sexy!
There is only one kind of sexy, I call them the sexy kind. (yes I'm not creative, oh boo)
so much stereo typical blabber, time for some different stuff - have you ever met someone who is SO NOT SEXY, that the person is almost immediately the sexiest person you know?
something like a bad joke thats so bad its actually funny..
Chandna,
You are twisted! And even though I'm checking my memory boxes really carefully, I don't think I have. Though I generally tend to fancy not so goodlooking men (though in my mind they're terribly sexy). Does that come close to what you mean? And who is this person you're talking about? ;)
the nerdier the better! and as for exposure- mysterious and occasional is best!
hmm... I was only looking for spice material from one of the other readers, but hey everyone has different tastes and someone may be sexy to me and ugly to you... (thats me trying to be politically correct so that I can keep my options open ;)
I think I know who it is...
*evil smile*
People that can read, write and spell. There are less of them about than you may think. Sexiness is all in the head.
Hello 200%,
Excellently put. I agree entirely.
I want to be academic sexy.
As it stands, I am likely only to be successful sexy, if I'm lucky, which is not quite the same thing.
For what its worth, I think you have the potential to be academic sexy though successful sexy will get you enough attention until you decide to change tracks to something that fulfils your soul. ;)
Oh gosh. Is this fortysomething woman the fire-and-brimstone 'master of suspicion'? She's scary, def not sexy.
Sexy for me is many different things. Often I go for the sexygeek. But sometimes I go for sexydumbjocks too; as long as they don't talk much, that should be fine!
Welome Jon!
You know who this woman is. Think hard about the women profs in the department!
I once dated the sexydumbjock in college. It was great until he started talking what he thought of the world... I had to end it.
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