Pahonu wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:49 am
ENSHealy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:19 pm
charybdis1966 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:04 amThe french detective was played by a chap with a lazy right eye and was balding and yet Carol was swooning over him, huh ?
I laughed out loud when I read that! I have to admit, I had a similar thought about his appearance and Carol's swooning while watching the episode, he's sort of an odd looking fellow, but upon further reflection, I believe her swooning really starts when Jean Claude lays on the poetry (mahogany orbs, etc.). So it may be more because of his smooth talking than his looks. I've heard talk that women sometimes do prefer personality over appearance...but I can never bring myself to believe it.
In my experience, I’ve come to believe that men are attracted to women by visual appeal more than anything else. On the other hand, women are attracted less by how they feel about the man, looks or otherwise, but more by how the man make them feel about themselves. There are many exceptions of course, but Carol’s attraction to Jean Claude seems quite plausible to me.
Pahonu,
You are spot on, I didn't think Carol's feelings for Jean Claude seemed out of place either.
By the time people have reached their 30's they have sown their wild oats. Women especially aren't looking for boys but men, men who actually listen to what they say, their wants and desires.
Going to bed is all well and good but its the waking up the next day, sharing all the joys and pains of life together that counts. Because at that point looks don't count for much, you couldn't pay me
enough to live with one of those Khardashian creatures in their cretinous world of false values and utterly vapid discourses.
Check out Murphy's Romance(1985), wherein Sally Field at her most beguiling falls for the much older James Garner though her handsome man-child ex husband is still panting for her.
Excellent flick, the Oscar nominated Garner's interactions with Field's son, teaching him right from wrong, are beautifully done, Ward Cleaver would approve.