#6 Unbearable accent
This one is submitted by ABM124. She writes:
“Deal breaker—-bad accent, like long island”
Totally.
Now, I know there are a lot of women out there who have a thing for guys with “Hot Accents”. Hot accents typically are British or Spanish or Southern. Hot Accents can turn a guy who would usually be about a 7 at least a 9.8. But I am not one of those women (I’m also not a woman who gets all excited by a man in a uniform—-unless he’s an employee at American Apparel) But I get it. It makes someone seem more exotic or at least gives him an edge over the rest of the guys on your recreational adult kick ball team.
But Hot Accents Guys are never from Boston, Fargo, or as AMB124 pointed out Long Island. I wish I could delight you with a hilarious tale about the time I dated a guy with a super thick Brooklyn accent who was an attorney and able to win a very important case in Alabama using the most unconventional of methods. But I can’t. For one, I have never dated a guy with a “non-hot” accent (maybe it’s a subconscious deal breaker for me). And two, that’s the plot to My Cousin Vinny.
But why is a bad accent a deal breaker? I don’t think there’s any proven scientific reason. So I’m just going to give you my personal theory I am still testing called “The Two Utes Theory”: If a man, regardless of how good looking, has a strong “non hot” accent that makes it hard to understand what he is saying even in the most casual of conversations he will thus seem stupid in the woman’s eyes much like the famous scene in My Cousin Vinny where the judge stops Vinny mid-questioning because he doesn’t understand that Vinny is saying the word “youths” with a strong Brooklyn accent.
A guy who seems stupid is never sexy (see deal breaker #1) and maybe it’s the idea of hearing that same accent in bed that makes him even less sexy. Or maybe some women just find a bad accent so unbearably annoying that they can’t even see a man’s good qualities. Regardless, ladies don’t feel bad if you didn’t give that guy at happy hour your number because just because he sounded like he just took the train in from Little Neck. Just think of all the guys who wouldn’t ask out Fran Drescher because of how she sounded on The Nanny.
***Please do not be offended if you or your boyfriend has one of those “bad accents”. Chances are you have the exact accent. Remember if two people have the same bad accent they probably don’t notice it in each other. Your deal breaker accent is probably something totally different.
