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" Lovelies: The other night, I was out with my friends Daisy Milliner and Ruby Finch, having a very mellow dinner at the brasserie Tabac in Brooklyn; and after spotting a guy sitting at the common table in the bar area who was absurdly cute, I actually I whispered, &amp;quot;Check him out!&amp;quot; I swear, I am not usually guilty of such Sex+The City behavior. (Not that there&amp;#039;s anything wrong with S+TC; I love it just as much as the next chick. It&amp;#039;s just that actually behaving like Samantha in real life seems odd, doesn&amp;#039;t it?) But, hell, I&amp;#039;d had half a glass of wine--which is nearly enough to make me tipsy (yes, I have the alcohol tolerance of a mosquito)--and I was feeling boisterous. Plus, Hot Stuff was halfway across the room in a bustling restaurant; he&amp;#039;d never notice me objectifying him.  Besides, he really did seem especially cute: tall, with curly black hair and a face that was elfin in a good Elijah-Wood-kind of way (big eyes, a pronounced square jaw, very round cheeks). What&amp;#039;s more, I liked his style: He was dressed in dark jeans and one of those snap-button plaid cowboy shirts. And, as he stood up to go, after shaking hands with the two male friends he was taking leave of, he grabbed a black motorcycle helmet that he&amp;#039;d been resting on the free stool next to him; I&amp;#039;m a sucker for a rugged-New-York-City-hipster-guy-on-a-bike. Then he walked past us to the door ... and I got a startlingly glimpse at his stomach.  Apparently, Tabac serves bowling balls, because it seems he&amp;#039;d eaten one for dinner and was attempting to digest it.  Which is to say, he had an enormous potbelly. After that, I wanted to go into the bathroom and wash my brain out with soap for even having the hots for the dude--that&amp;#039;s how egregious the tummy was. And I can&amp;#039;t say I&amp;#039;ve ever been turned on by a man with a rotund stomach.  In August, The New York Times tried to argue that potbellies on men were actually COOL! Trendy! ... I was outraged. First of all, can you imagine an article ever being written about how cool it is that WOMEN are exhibiting excess poundage around their middles? (Right--I don&amp;#039;t notice any pigs flying overhead either.) Second of all: Potbellies are sexy? According to whose standards? Then I noticed that (a) the writer was himself a male--and I wouldn&amp;#039;t be surprised if he goes around looking like he&amp;#039;s got a bun in the oven himself. Also, that (b) the main evidence of this whooping &amp;quot;trend&amp;quot; was that he&amp;#039;d seen a bunch of dudes walking around the city with rounded middles. If that&amp;#039;s all it takes for something to become trend--noticing that people happen to be doing it--may I propose the following new trends:  -taking the subway! -eating food! -wearing sneakers! (Yes, the kids these days certainly are wacky. What WILL they think of next?)  Is this unfair of me--to be so judgmental about a person&amp;#039;s physique? Am I being superficial?    Or is it perfectly reasonable for me (as someone who keeps in obsessive shape) to be turned off by a protruding tummy?    Also ... ladies ... how do you feel about the potbelly issue?  xxx ---------------------------------------- dear Blue: I&amp;#039;m so sorry to hear about what happened to your office romance! And I&amp;#039;m glad it sound like you&amp;#039;ve made it through all right.  and Claude: hang in there, lady, with that crush! get yourself doing some online dating or something, to take your mind off it! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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