Bisexuality is a humorous factor. Whereas my crushes on feminine celebrities really feel, to me, pretty predictable—Rachel Griffiths as Brenda Chenoweth on Six Toes Underneath, Rosemarie DeWitt as Midge on Mad Males, Parker Posey fairly actually all the time, and different imply brunettes of that nature—my crushes on well-known males are, properly…inexplicable, to place it truthfully.
I could have grown out of my softboy stage, Baruch Hashem, however recently, I’ve observed that my unattainable famous-guy crushes lean considerably towards the…unhappy, from a lovelorn Albert Brooks in Broadcast Information to James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano.
Provided that context, possibly it’s not so shocking that the most recent TV character to seize my coronary heart virtually towards my will is none apart from a long-haired, gray-stubbled, open-Hawaiian-shirt-wearing Walton Goggins as disillusioned Thailand vacationer Rick Hatchett on season 3 of The White Lotus.
Clearly, it’s not that loopy to lust after Goggins, given he’s a good-looking Hollywood actor who one way or the other makes having the identify of a nonagenarian British detective engaging, however…Rick? Actually? Is that this my style in males now? (I ought to observe that my precise boyfriend is under no circumstances a creep with huge sex-tourist vibes.) Actually, Goggins’s White Lotus character could also be embodying nothing a lot as the numerous, many sunburned, depressed white guys I narrowly prevented having many drawn-out conversations over beachside-bar martinis with on my journey to Bali final summer time. (In truth, this trope was even referenced throughout the present’s season premiere, with a brand new pal of Rick’s incongruously candy and sunny girlfriend Chelsea warning her, “You’ll discover loads of bald white guys in Thailand. The locals name them LBHs: Losers Again House.”) However there’s nonetheless one thing about his dour but completely tanned countenance that I’m discovering undeniably attractive.
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