I am sure somewhere there is a detailed explanation of this--either from some scholarly journal of psychology or, more likely, from a particularly astute comedian. Same thing.The stereotype here is that this is a “girl thing”. As usual, the stereotype is correct. We have all noticed that women embrace the word cute much more than men. Ladies, men don’t like being called “cute” to our faces. Like the words ‘menstruation’ or ‘commitment’; cute is word better left spoken only to your girlfriends. In other words, calling a man cute is exactly the same as saying he has a small penis.
For some reason absolutely anything small is cute. As many of you know, I recently purchased a Cooper Mini. “It’s so cute!” Like a kitten, or a Keebler Elf. If the value of money were set by women, the dime would be the most valuable denomination.
As a man, I have struggled with the reason for this all my life. Why the hell is ANYTHING small immediately and unquestionably “cute”? The answer is so simple. It’s part of the genetic, instinctive desire to possess, create and care for something small. A baby.
Babies aren’t cute because they are small. Small things are cute because they are like babies.
I guess this is typically why men like things to be large. We hate babies.
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Sorry to taint this post with a semi-serious response, but I've wondered the same thing, and I have somewhat of a theory. When it comes to anything animate (your Mini Cooper/Cooper Mini/Anderson Cooper aside), the reason little things are cute is because the one organ that living things are born with full-size is the eyes. So eyes are disproportionately big on babies, kittens and puppies. And for some reason, we read that innocence, cuteness, whatever. Not sure why. Your car is cute because the headlights are like eyes. Yeah...
That's a really interesting point. True I think. I remember a girl in high school who was a complete skank, a little pudgy and fairly stupid. But she had the biggest eyes I've ever seen which made her irresistible. So there's some truth in that. However, it can't explain the rest of it.
I mean, little beer bottles are almost as "adorable" as tiny shoes or a small phone.
I thought men only say "adorable" when they want to get action out of a girl or they want to get out of trying not to say someone's kid is actually annoying and not cute.
You can take the dispropotionate thing too far. Those Precious Moments figures have enormous eyes and totally freak me out. Unless its the fact they are children placed in adult roles that freaks me out. I don't know, either way its not cute!
And who was the skanky girl?
Forgot to add one thing: Scott, your penis is very cute.
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