The Cool Average Guy
Posted by Chris on June 30, 2008 @ 2:02pm
There’s a trend in Hollywood these days. All us average guys should be thanking Judd Apatow for this. He’s made the average guy cool. Not just cool, he’s humanized him to the point where Star Wars loving, comic book reading men are getting noticed for the first time as bona fide sex symbols. Look at Seth Rogen. Look at Jason Segel. Look at all of the guys in Human Giant. Look at Jason Bateman. Look at the fucking Wilson brothers. Look at Jason Schwartzman. Look at Paul Rudd. Look at John C. Reilly. Look at Will Ferrell.Christ! Look at Adam Sandler.
None of these guys look like John Stamos. They were the freaks and geeks in high school. The Audio Visual guys, or the smokers, or the guys who played floor hockey at lunch time. These were the guys who didn’t date until late high school, or were too shy. These were the guys who relied on their personalities to attract girls, often failed, and learned rejection before confidence. Some of them learned strategies. Like music. The Anthony Robbins in the strategy of using music as a tool to woo is none other than John Mayer. He is an average guy. Good looking guy, but you can clearly see the awkward teen under there. He learned his coolness, but he’s still that geek from Conneticut, who has been catching up on getting laid like nobody’s business since gaining popularity. You can’t hate that. If I was John Mayer, I’d be singing “Your Body Is A Wonderland” to every woman I met, young-old-whatever and waiting for the underwear to evaporate before I got into the chorus. Make no mistake though…he wasn’t always like that. He’ll even admit it. In a recent blog post of his, you’ll see what I’m talking about.
The media seems to be teaching us that sex is awesome. It’s teaching 13 year old girls that having a thong sticking out of your pants is awesome. It’s teaching women that thin at any cost is awesome. Everything in this world is sexual perfection, so it’s refreshing to see that the average guy is in with a vengeance.
If David Spade can bag Heather Locklear and Denise Richards, and still have a little left for the other 20 hot women in Malibu he’s fucking, then maybe there is hope for everyone who doesn’t look like this.
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