Two weeks ago for the Friday Open Thread, I asked you what your “type” is and my friends, you did not let me down! It felt like a 90s slumber party with 150 of my best friends and I can’t wait to hang out with you again soon in an open thread! You all were so specific and earnest and honestly, I’m inspired to seriously hone in on who I want to crush on from now on. Thank you so much for your contribution to last week’s thread, and for your pleasure, here are 38 of the ones that inspired me to go out there and demand what I want, presented in list form.
1. Femmes who are probably social workers
2. Mean femmes
3. Glammed up butches
4. Overextended busy queers
5. Southern charm
6. Unavailable
7. “Someone who might wear a sundress sometime & tenderly murders me with a look.”
8. Shane (from The L Word)
9. “Grown-up Spinellis”
10. Bean-shaped
11. Anything but men
12. Scorpio
13. Tender sci-fi tomboys
14. Wholesome and puppyish
15. Old wealth
16. “Shirley Manson femme”
17. “Femmes who can murder you”
18. Rachel Maddow on screen
20. Rachel Maddow off screen
21. Everyone but actors
22. “Dominant nature loving perverts, willing to engage in artistic/creative endeavors, have sex in the woods, and tie me up.”
23. Nice Jewish Girl ™
24. “Andro/MOC folx with soft curvy bodies and crazy hair”
25. The recently divorced
26. Boaters
27. Bookish butches
28. Gregarious introverts
29. ?️Older women
30. Smart girls who look like they played soccer
31. Bisexual Jewish therapists
32. Assertive organized girly girls
33. “Apparently women with the name “Carmen” which started with Carmen Cortez in Spy Kids as a child until I graduated to Carmen de la Pica Morales. Women totally out of my league.”
34. Younger, hot, queer Meryl Streep
35. Little spoons
36. Scary, brooding people
37. Masculine-of-center STEM majors
38. Straight women
