That's the generic thing in film and other socio-cultural contexts though, that no person, regardless of gender is complete unless they have a (preferably attractive) partner, but for women in film it is threefold; successful, attractive and have a partner. I just think the male omega nerd gets off awfully easy compared to the nonexistent female nerd. In real life we do know that the female nerd/geek exists in variously successful incarnations, but they're like the dirty secret of the film world, or they get to play extremely tragical comical sidekicks, on very rare occasions.
Sarah Jessica Parker to me is mainly odd looking...like she's the female version of James Woods or Steve Buscemi or some other ugly-attractive film personality..but I wouldn't call her downright ugly...she still has those blue eyes and the figure, in spite of the long angled face. There are women with unusual looks in film, as long as they have certain criteria in place (like the figure) they're able to make a career just by being unusual counterpoints to the generically pretty, as you pointed out..but it doesn't feel the same as the very realistically plain/weak chinned/chubby guy geeks you can spot fairly often on film.
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Date: 2009-04-29 05:32 pm (UTC)Sarah Jessica Parker to me is mainly odd looking...like she's the female version of James Woods or Steve Buscemi or some other ugly-attractive film personality..but I wouldn't call her downright ugly...she still has those blue eyes and the figure, in spite of the long angled face.
There are women with unusual looks in film, as long as they have certain criteria in place (like the figure) they're able to make a career just by being unusual counterpoints to the generically pretty, as you pointed out..but it doesn't feel the same as the very realistically plain/weak chinned/chubby guy geeks you can spot fairly often on film.