HANDSOME WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES

1) No men

2) No women who look like women

3) Bonus points for muscles

Go!

NEW RULES

NO PICS OF GIRLS WHO LOOK LIKE BOYS

UPDATED RULES

NO NEVER NUDES

TV's Frink said:

NO NEVER NUDES

This seems to be the sort thing you are after :

BUT the term handsome when applied to women just refers to women who are attractive but not 'pretty'.

I don't know the origin of your usage comes from, I can only assume it's some sort of interweb thing. 

I'll be forever indebted to you for this thread, Frink =D

Bingowings said:

BUT the term handsome when applied to women just refers to women who are attractive but not 'pretty'.

I don't know the origin of your usage comes from, I can only assume it's some sort of interweb thing. 

I don't know the origin, it's not an internet thing to my knowledge.  I've never heard the term used for an attractive woman who isn't pretty.

TK-949 said:

 

TV's Frink said:

NO NEVER NUDES

Hmmm, does that mean only nudes?

 

No, it means no people who refuse to ever be nude.

http://www.ifc.com/videos/arrested-development-never-nude.php

Ha-ha, just stumbled across this.

lol

You're welcome.

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

BUT the term handsome when applied to women just refers to women who are attractive but not 'pretty'.

I don't know the origin of your usage comes from, I can only assume it's some sort of interweb thing. 

I don't know the origin, it's not an internet thing to my knowledge.  I've never heard the term used for an attractive woman who isn't pretty.

An example of a handsome woman, in the terms I was brought up to understand it is Billie Whitelaw.

She isn't pretty but she is attractive in the way a handsome man isn't pretty.

But men can be pretty :

I'm not sure I understand how someone can be attractive without being pretty*.  My assumption is that some people would use it for a woman with an ugly face but a good body - but I wouldn't find that attractive.

*from a purely physical standpoint, of course

Pretty is more a delicate, fragile beauty (like daisies. butterflies).

Handsome is a strong, durable beauty (like mountains and tall ships).

A Hitchcock blonde (Kim Novak, Janet Leigh etc) isn't pretty but is definitely attractive.

Deneuve is another example I'd give.

She was pretty when she was young:

but she grew to be more handsome (and arguably more attractive) when she got older :

At this point I must refer you to Rule #2 in the OP.

Catherine is a lady who is definitely all woman.

Ava on the other hand is a woman who is all mine field (she used to eat bullfighters for breakfast) :

You are soooooo doing it wrong.

Maybe this will help:

It's not my fault you Americans don't speak English, I'm Scottish.

Go start your own version of a Handsome Women thread if you don't like my definition.

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Couldn't have done it without you :p

TV's Frink said:

You are soooooo doing it wrong.

Maybe this will help:

More cushion for the pushin'? Let me at 'er!