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"We ladies have a tendency to make generalizations about hot guys: they&amp;#x27;re conceited, they&amp;#x27;re jerks, they&amp;#x27;re dumb, etc. In this new feature, &amp;quot;The Handsome Interviews,&amp;quot; we&amp;#x27;ll find out what actually goes on inside the mind of a handsome man. (SPOILER ALERT: Handsome men are people, too.) Mark, 25, is my friend Emily&amp;#x27;s brother. He went to Berkeley. He just moved to New York City after a few years of travel as a scuba diving instructor. He&amp;#x27;s now a freelance handyman and works at a farmer&amp;#x27;s market. He&amp;#x27;s also a humble dude and required a lot of coercion from me as well as, uh, liquid courage, to speak so frankly and honestly about looking the way he does. So don&amp;#x27;t judge him for being honest, K? Such is the point of these interviews. Me: So tell me about being conventionally attractive. Mark:You keep saying &amp;quot;conventionally.&amp;quot; Me: Does that offend you? Mark: Sort of. Like, I don&amp;#x27;t have a six-pack. I&amp;#x27;m just an above-average guy. Me: So what sort of handsome do you think you are? I say &amp;quot;conventional&amp;quot; because you look like someone who could be on Glee. Mark: &amp;quot;Guy next door&amp;quot;? Is that a thing? Me: Would you rather be a different kind [of handsome]? Mark: Like, Ryan Gosling? Sure. But I&amp;#x27;m happy with myself. Me: How would you rate yourself? One to ten. Mark: I&amp;#x27;m told I&amp;#x27;m an eight by my guy friends. I&amp;#x27;ve never really thought about it. Me: When did you realize you were handsome? Mark: Ugh, it&amp;#x27;s weird to talk about this. [We do shots.] That was gross. Probably when I was 18 and went to college. I was a quiet dork in high school and I thought a lot more about academics and sports than girls. Then I went to college and there was drinking and girls throwing themselves at me and stuff. I guess I was just a late bloomer. Me: Are you used to it now? Mark: Uhh, to be honest, I still don&amp;#x27;t really know what to do with it. Me: Do you think you get special treatment because you&amp;#x27;re handsome? Mark: Definitely. It&amp;#x27;s easier to get jobs and I think people give you free passes on interpersonal sh*t a lot. Me: Would you say your handsomeness is a defining character trait? Like, within the first three adjectives someone would use to describe you? Mark: It depends who you ask. If a girl I&amp;#x27;m dating is describing me to her friends, probably, yeah. But my friends, no. Me: But you&amp;#x27;re you&amp;#x27;re aware of it? Mark: I don&amp;#x27;t think about it that much. If I hook up with a really attractive girl, that&amp;#x27;s how I know. Me: Are the girls you hook up with generally more or less attractive than you? Mark: This sounds horrible, but usually less. I value intelligence a lot more. And do you think they have the same values as you? Mark: I like to think so. Me: How often do you expect to have sex? Mark: Haha. Um, I don&amp;#x27;t think there&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;expectation,&amp;quot; as in I&amp;#x27;m entitled to it or anything, but I think I could probably go out to a bar and find someone to have sex with every night if I wanted to. I&amp;#x27;m just kind of tired of one-night stands at this point. I&amp;#x27;m looking for something meaningful, or at least a girl I can hang out with and hook up with and talk to. I just moved to New York and it seems impossible to meet good girls here. Everyone&amp;#x27;s priorities are messed up. Me: You realize that&amp;#x27;s just as much of a generalization as someone assuming you&amp;#x27;re dumb because you&amp;#x27;re handsome, right? Mark: I guess, yeah. It&amp;#x27;s a double standard. You have a point. It&amp;#x27;s just--I went out with this girl who kept blowing me off, and I even came to this Fashion Week thing for her, and she blew me off again, which is just ridiculous. Me: What kind of girls do you go for? Mark: I&amp;#x27;ve always found old-fashioned women really appealing. This is weird to say, but my grandma is basically my dream woman. She drinks scotch--it would be really appealing if a girl could drink scotch with me--and she&amp;#x27;s a real lady. And I love classic movies, so Ingrid Bergman, too. Gorgeous. All my best girlfriends were Swedish. Me: How many girlfriends have you had? Mark: Seven. Is that a lot? Me: Haha, I don&amp;#x27;t know. Mark: This is a brilliant plan to get guys to go out with you. Me: I don&amp;#x27;t know what you&amp;#x27;re talking about, I am a journalist. Eh? EH? What do you guys think? More handsome men: *Have You Ever Been In Sexlove? Wait, Let Me Define... *Do You Think Your Dude Is Hotter Than You? *HILARIOUS, Must-See Video: The Handsome Men&amp;#x27;s Club"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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