I dated a really muscular, hot guy once. He was so boring that at one point during dinner, I found myself contemplating stabbing his hand with my fork, just to see what would happen.

I’m 5'2" and I tend to date tall guys. My current bf is 6'2". My theory is that your first boyfriend/sexual experience somehow wires your brain for what you find attractive, and my first boyfriend was 6'4". Believe me, it’s not a daddy-dauther thing. If it helps, my dad is 5'4". Maybe I’m trying to date men who are…

Well, yeah. Everyone knows that you can write better music when you’re wet and shirtless. Duh.

Oh, come on now. I’m sure there’s something. What if going on a date with this man would get Trump out of the White House immediately? What if... going on a date with this guy would end world hunger? What if... the rest of us got to secretly watch your date and be endlessly amused, and then you could come back here…

I did, too!

I just figured he did a bunch of pushups or something right before he posed for his awesome pics...because, yeah, if your veins and muscles are bulging that much when you’re holding a violin, you probably broke the violin. But you’re probably right, photoshop seems more likely.

Oh. My. God. This guy just loves himself SO HARD. It’s kind of hard to look away.

My HS boyfriend went off to college in LA and got into one of those I-worship-her-and-she-lets-me-do-stuff-for-her “friendships” with a tall, blonde, very thin aspiring actress. I’m 5'2", not blonde, and was never stick thin, so this just exacerbated all of my body image stuff. After several months of making me feel…

Wow. That is just super, super shitty. I can imagine how that would destroy your self-esteem and your relationship with your sister. I’m so sorry.

I’m sure you’re lovely, and please don’t be so hard on yourself - I hated how I looked in HS, and now looking back at pictures of myself, I wonder WTF was wrong with me - I was adorable.

I thought this was a generic model pic that they put into the article to make a point about the hot people not playing instruments? Was this actually the Benedict guy in the article?!?! Oh my god.

My question is... these “average looking” partners that these “stunningly attractive” people have settled for... can they read? Have they seen this article? Are they still with these douchenozzles?

I dated a guy who was SO scared of losing his hair, he talked about his “full head of hair” all the time. Like, all the time. It was a real preoccupation. There’s a reason he’s past tense.

My favorite experience of this was when I was at some group dinner thing in my 20s. Some bro-type guy was down at the far end of the table, we didn’t say a single word to each other all night (mostly because I was chatting with the people sitting near me). When I got up to leave, he shot out of his seat, insisted on…

That’s my favorite thing - the post-rejection insult. It totally works, too. Destroys the ego and makes you realize that you really DID want him after all, right?

You could wait until all of the episodes have been released, and then do the free trial, right?

Me too. I loved the book back when I read it, and I keep meaning to re-read it, but I just... can’t. I don’t think I’ll be able to watch the series, either.

Me too. I’ve been meaning to re-read it since before the election, but I just can’t make myself do it. It feels too real. I’m not sure I’ll be able to watch this series, either.

Wait, if you had a “no neck” rule, wouldn’t you also have a “no FACE” rule?!?! I mean, seriously, a giant ice cream cone across that guy’s face is ok, but a tiny word on the side of someone’s neck isn’t? That makes no sense.

I wondered that, too. But then it occurred to me that she was in Canada, and maybe it’s not easy to get full seasons up there?