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The 'attraction' debate: Science suggests we are attracted to people who are most genetically dissimilar to us, to give the gene pool a wider variety. This is pretty much at a subconscious level, and may only pertain to people we meet in person since there might be a pheremone connection, too. So, while you might be attracted so someone with similar physical characteristics, you might very well be quite genetically dissimilar. Behind that comes the psycho-social conditioning of the qualities we find attractive, which includes physical and personality traits. (This also factors into the Dean/Jensen debate, since Dean is the bad boy and Jensen is the conservative nice guy and someone might find one personality trait more attractive over the other).
For example, if we look at the boys as our gene pool (sigh...one could only be so lucky...) and if we only speak from anecdotal experience I have always liked tall guys (I'm a bit of a shorty, and come from short German/Sicilian stock, so this takes the 'dissimilar gene pool into account). This puts both boys on my radar as they're both tall. Jensen is of English/Welsh heritage and Jared is Polish. Since Polish is more closely related to German than English this hedges Jensen a little ahead of Jared. (And oddly enough, I have always been attracted to men of British descent). If you take physical characteristics into account, Jared is more similar to my coloring than Jensen (even though I'm a flaming redhead, I was spared the freckles and instead got the Italian beauty marks). Now, if you want to pull SPN itself into this hypothesis, Winchester/Campbell makes them English/Scotch, but factor in that Dean is the bad boy and Sam is the nice guy...well, I've always gone for the bad boy (which could be considered the psychosocial condition, since the bad boy is always romanticized; from Paul Newman through Judd Nelson and on...).
Of course, this could also just be a load of crap and I shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard before my coffee kicks in the morning.
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The 'attraction' debate: Science suggests we are attracted to people who are most genetically dissimilar to us, to give the gene pool a wider variety. This is pretty much at a subconscious level, and may only pertain to people we meet in person since there might be a pheremone connection, too. So, while you might be attracted so someone with similar physical characteristics, you might very well be quite genetically dissimilar. Behind that comes the psycho-social conditioning of the qualities we find attractive, which includes physical and personality traits. (This also factors into the Dean/Jensen debate, since Dean is the bad boy and Jensen is the conservative nice guy and someone might find one personality trait more attractive over the other).
For example, if we look at the boys as our gene pool (sigh...one could only be so lucky...) and if we only speak from anecdotal experience I have always liked tall guys (I'm a bit of a shorty, and come from short German/Sicilian stock, so this takes the 'dissimilar gene pool into account). This puts both boys on my radar as they're both tall. Jensen is of English/Welsh heritage and Jared is Polish. Since Polish is more closely related to German than English this hedges Jensen a little ahead of Jared. (And oddly enough, I have always been attracted to men of British descent). If you take physical characteristics into account, Jared is more similar to my coloring than Jensen (even though I'm a flaming redhead, I was spared the freckles and instead got the Italian beauty marks). Now, if you want to pull SPN itself into this hypothesis, Winchester/Campbell makes them English/Scotch, but factor in that Dean is the bad boy and Sam is the nice guy...well, I've always gone for the bad boy (which could be considered the psychosocial condition, since the bad boy is always romanticized; from Paul Newman through Judd Nelson and on...).
Of course, this could also just be a load of crap and I shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard before my coffee kicks in the morning.
Good to know!
Dean's dirty - anyone wanna give him a bath?? I'll check for injuries afterwards
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