My Love Affair With Brad Pitt Survived The Pill

Mick // With their usual careful treatment of facts, the Daily Mail has declared that the pill “has put women off masculine men.”

My love affair with Brad Pitt, like all great romances, was a complex thing. What it did, however, was prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that being on the pill does not make women crave feminine men, at least in my case.

Pitt’s popularity was cited by the paper as evidence that the pill messes with our hormones, making us shun the rugged masculinity of yesteryear. This article was clearly written by a man with little grasp of the facts.

I first became aware of this bastion of male sexuality when he did Legends of the Fall. He had flowing blond locks, piercing blue eyes and a sensitive soul. My friends swooned. I was indifferent.

Many of my teen years was spent wondering why I was immune to his pretty charms. Yes, he did have a square jaw, and, sure, his muscles bulged, but my heart would not go pitter-pat.

Other teen heart throbs came and went, but Brad’s appeal was always an enigma… until he did Fight Club.

By then I was no longer a young girl but practically a woman, so much so that I was on the pill. And suddenly I got it — this guy was hot!

Anthropologically speaking, he was the man I would cheat with to get the good genes for my kids. According to the Mail, because I was on the pill I should have been drawn to more sensitive types like Hugh Grant or Tobey Maguire. But no, I wanted the most aggressive, masculine man in film.

And he’s only gotten more manly with time. He bagged one of the most beautiful women in history and went on to have six kids with her, biological and not. In his latest movie he runs around killing Nazis.

The pill and I have parted ways, but the manliness of Pitt has remained.

For a more scientific evaluation of how this study is flawed, please see The Pill’s Effect On Attraction.