Attraction

What makes someone attractive?  Well, beats me.  You could ask me if I think someone is attractive but, if so, I couldn't possibly tell you why.

I was sitting with my mum last night looking at pictures of attractive guys, from the classically attractive like Robert Redford, Paul Newman, River Phoenix, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, to people like Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki and Mark Ronson.  I decided at one point to throw some (for want of a better word) wild card into the equation, so I found pictures of Zachary Quinto, Anton Yelchin and showed her a picture of the fabulous Gideon Graves, aka Jason Schwartzman.  The reaction to Anton Yelchin was acceptable, but when I googled Zachary Quinto I discovered that "he doesn't do it for [her]" (by the way, I love those square brackets when quoting; you can make the quote fit what you're saying), and when I showed her the picture of Gideon I said that I was going to show her a picture of someone looking good wearing a suit that isn't technically a suit.  She looked at the picture and said that he didn't actually look that good.  Well, I wasn't impressed, but it made me think, what does make someone attractive because lets face it, he isn't; he's short (no offense to short  people, there is nothing wring with being short, I just have a "weird thing about guys' heights").  There has to be something attractive about him, but I can't think what it is, I mean, he has a tendency to play really nerdy characters, and occasionally somewhat creepy ones (note: Ethan in Slackers *shudder*).  So what is it?  And Zachary Quinto, other than being 6'1, I can't actually find anything attractive about him.  So why do I find him attractive?  At least with most people I can find one or two reasons for finding them attractive, but for some of them, I can't.

Oh, and then there's the whole Spock thing.  Yes, again, don't ask me why, but for some reason I have a thing for (Zachary Quinto as) Spock.  But, Spock, why do I have a thing for Spock?  Weird.

Another weird thing, my thing for serial killers.  Okay, not real serial killers, but serial killers in films and books.  People like Tom Hanniger, Patrick Bateman, Sylar from Heroes (again, Zachary Quinto), and Mickey from Scream 2.  Why is it, that when I found out that two of those people were the people killing everyone in their respective films, that I found them so much more attractive.  Surely that can't be normal, or healthy.