and it’s Amy Adams. You know, the chick from Catch Me If You Can. Didn’t really notice her until I started seeing those ads for Enchanted lately, and gee wiz:
Yowza.
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November 8, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Yes, she is pretty! Wow. But I have to say, you have now given your future wife someone to compare herself against.
November 9, 2007 at 1:54 am
I appreciate the learned wisdom. I really do.
But from what I understand, it doesn’t matter what I say or do, blog or not blog about. She’ll do that anyway, and that’s her deal. She’ll have to assuage her fears with a good dose of humility and the fact that I waited for her, and not someone else.
Dennis Prager is writing a book right now about the male psyche- so women can understand them better, and so man can understand themselves better in a world that is so hostile to masculinity. He’s a smart guy and I tend to agree with many of his thoughts on this issue. I can’t wait for it tome out next year.
November 9, 2007 at 10:36 am
You are funny…and I like the title of this note! I was hoping to be the first to comment, but I hesitated. Drat! You know, its a nice sentiment to say a woman is beautiful, but it doesn’t quite have the same meaning when you call a man beautiful. What would the male equivalent of “beauty” be?
November 9, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Beautiful, Beauty, I have no problem with. It’s the “Yowza” that is the funniest, but also the most offensive of the terms.
November 9, 2007 at 2:25 pm
How about “criminy”?
Well, I refuse to apologize for expressing my maleness in this way, so yowza it will stay.
Belinda, it not only does not have the same meaning, it would probably be downright insulting for most. If you think a guy is pretty stick with calling him.. um.. just say “wow”. That’s safe. Oh or you could try “nice”. I can’t guarantee a universal positive reaction though.
November 9, 2007 at 4:07 pm
That just is not fair. There are a multitude of endearing and complimentary terms a man can use when expressing his delight at a woman’s charms, but when it comes to men, women have little to chose from…haha…that is true on so many levels. Hmm. Well, I suppose a man would just prefer a physical expression rather than a verbal one anyway. I guess the world still makes sense.
…and I agree, the “yowza” was oh so funny. You pig.
November 11, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I don’t get it. I really don’t.
Seriously, now, someone explain to me: why is “yowza” so offensive? Or if not offensive, at least disagreeable?
Are there sexual implications of which I am not aware? The cultural implications? Are words that begin with Y now considered taboo? Does it dredge up old childhood memories?
Seriously now. I really, really don’t get it. To me, it’s a very tame, silly, 1950s esque way of expressing appreciation for physical beauty. Would it be better if I had said she’s “easy on the eyes”?
September 11, 2008 at 3:55 am
[...] public eye. This is unfortunate because non gratuitous admiration of beauty has its place- but experience has taught me that a young male makes such observations out loud at his own [...]
September 11, 2008 at 10:48 am
Ricky don’t worry about the comments represented here. They are both female so consider the source. The female spend hours in front of a mirror maximizing her appearance to score looks from the very visually aware male and when the male says anything he gets grief. She isn’t spending all that time and effort to look good for herself or other women. This is the gender who wants us to talk more but when we say what is on our mind whamo we get in trouble. Get use to it. Men stay in trouble like this all there lives so don’t worry about it. The only way you are going to be acceptable here is to shut up. With that said, there is nothing wrong with yowza. It has no sexual implications, it has no degrading meanings, it is not crude and it clearly means you like what you saw. I am glad you liked what you saw. That indicates to me that you are a healthy American male and I probably someday can expect our family name to carry on to the next generation. Gretchen does offer a valid point however. Not just that your future wife will have a comparison but the broader brush stroke that all bloggers run the risk of having an abundance of information available for anyone to dig up and interrupt and twist and use possibly against you someday. You are in error. Not in what you said but where you said it. If you said yowza in a group of men all you would have gotten would have been “yep” or a nod from the moral guys and probably a bunch of crap from the creeps. The error is the very public presence of stuff that probably is much better left out of public. I challenge all readers and bloggers to listen to this old man. Think long and hard about what you put out in the public eye. Written words are very likely to come back and bite you somewhere on a tender part of your body when you least expect or need it. There will always be someone who wants to take issue with what you wrote so….. with that let the arrows fly at me for what I have written here. Actually, save your effort. I am and old guy so you can just consider the source.