Personality

There was an interesting activity in class this past Wednesday, which was enlightening for me.  The activity was pretty simple, one side of the room would describe what their “perfect man” would be – their “Ken” in keeping with the Barbie world theme of the week.  Then the other side was to describe their “perfect woman” – their “Barbie.”  Interestingly enough the side that had all girls on it got to describe the perfect man and the side with all boys (with the exception of 3 girls) got to describe the perfect woman.  The first two traits from the woman side describing the perfect man were “taller than me” and “has abs.”  Both of which are physical traits – nothing wrong with that, physical attraction is important in a relationship.  Then men side describing women however chose to put “personality” as their top seven traits.  Now this clearly is a joke, but I thought it was funny that the boys “didn’t wanna get caught lackin’” and describe only physical traits in a girl – which could come off as sexist or objectifying women.  I think that it is completely fine to have physical traits in a “perfect partner” list and it shouldn’t be something you should be afraid to mention.  Does anyone actually read this?  Comment “I won’t get caught lackin’”if you do.  Girls want a good looking guy to them and guys want just the same – there should be no problem.  Just remember to keep personality in mind as well.