Boys Don't Make Passes
 

at girls who wear glasses....

Is that true? Do you think the old saying stems from the suggestion that typical men don't want a "bookish" women? Do you think it was meant to suggest that men feel intimidated by smart women or do you think it is speaking strictly in terms of looks?

This saying has always intrigued me because I'm really not sure which sex is being insulted. Are men supposed to be that insecure? Is a woman needing corrective lenses considered less attractive in general?

Lil, I suspect that this saying is about as old as the invention of spectacles. And the first spectacles were quite ugly.
Also, notice the expression refers to "Boys" and "Girls", not men and women. What the hell do little boys know anyhow???
I don't think there is any reason for women to fear being rejected for wearing glasses. I'd hit on you in a heartbeat Lil, with or w/o the glasses.

Joe

I've always found glasses extremely attractive, on both men and women.

As a child I always wanted to wear glasses, and then a few years ago, I was prescribed them for working with computers.

I haven't noticed that I'm treated differently by men whether I'm wearing my glasses or not, but I know that I'd find it a turn on, if a guy thought I was sexy in my specs.

Have just got some new ones actually, and I'm desperate to show them off....perhaps I'll have to take some pics and you can tell me what you think!

My wife wore glasses when I met her on a blind date back when I was in High School and I wouldn't trade her for anything. :thumb:

Not that I'm insinuating that I don't wanna see Loulabelle's new pictures, but for me...it's the person behind the glasses, the one wearing the clothes, the voice behind the lips that makes me swoon.

I was sad when I was first told I needed to wear glasses. I saw it as a sign I was getting older, but because I never thought I was cute...I didn't worry about losing my desirability! :D

I know for a fact that when you're young boys don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. I wore glasses starting my second grade until I was a Senior in high school. I hated them! Whenever I lost the glasses and got contacts......here they come!
But then again I live in a world of rednecks so looks was everything. :rolleyes2
Can't you just see Daisy Duke in a big pair of glasses? :p

I have worn glasses since I was 14. Never had much problems finding a date or a couple of husbands. :D

I think some of it depends on the glasses, but I don't think it holds true so much these days.

If a woman likes to read,thats a big plus in my book. I think that old saying is dated to when most glasses were the horn rimmed type.You know,the type the gov't issues when you enlist.Now with contacts and much more stylish frames,that seems to be an old saying that can be laid to rest.I personally never make passes at girls with moustaches.heh heh

I don't wear glasses :D


And, yes, boys.......the line forms right here. :boobs:

I've always heard that line atributted to Dorothy Parker, (a very funny & articulate woman, who nonetheless had some serious issues in her personnal life) & she said it at a time when glasses were typically very severe & not often stylish...I'm reminded of an old cartoon of a buxom woman wearing glasses & a bikini on the beach, with some guy leering at her chest as he says, "Of course men make passes at girls who wear glasses...oh, are you wearing glasses?"

Cute Scotz! I didn't know who said it just was thinking about it as I was cleaning my glasses ;)

Let me be the first...or at least 2nd to get in line!!!


:)

I like my glasses---i think that they are funky. the drawback is that most ppl don't see my eyes and how blue they are. oh well.

The whole phrase was most likely invented by someone incredibly insecure. Does anything else really need to be said?