Chelsea Kaplan’s Musings About Life... After Birth
Posted by Chelsea on October 01, 2007
The October 2007 issue of Parents magazine includes a small feature titled “Is He Crushworthy?” with the subheadline “We polled our married staffers and came up with this list of hotties”. Essentially a mom-version of a Seventeen magazine-esque “Who we think is hot RIGHT NOW!!”, the article includes a list of who the magazine’s married chicks think is “crushworthy”.
The list includes some of the usual/understandable suspects (“any and all firemen”, “24‘s Jack Bauer” and “The UPS Guy”), as well as a few slightly surprising yet still totally understandable choices (“Jon Stewart” - as previously mentioned, one of my personal faves, “Your child’s pediatrician” - one member of the DC Momtourage TOTALLY falls into this category, and “Forest Rangers”).
One choice, however, leaves me utterly and completely baffled , not to mention a slight bit nauseated:
STEVE? From Blue’s Clues? Ladies, you have GOT to get out more.
Pardon me while I get my handy-dandy notebook and comprise a list of 8,000,000 other guys who are far more crush-worthy…...
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Steve is totally asexual!
But what do you all think of Steve’s younger brother, Joe? He scores a LITTLE higher but not quite up to “hottie”. Mostly I just feel sorry for those male hosts of children’s shows - how do they EVER get a date, much less anything else??? No wonder Peewee Herman was desperate enough to be found doing inappropriate things in a porn shop!
OMG, Steve? Those women need to get a clue themselves!
Talk about desperate housewives… last summer while at a Wiggles concert with my daughter, I was shocked to see MULTIPLE kids holding up poster-size signs that shared identical sentiments - “My Mommy has a crush on Anthony!” (Anthony is the blue Wiggle.) It has to also be mentioned that these posters were decked out… bubble letters, glitter, the works. They were definitely not made by a toddler, and definitely took the moms more than a few minutes to whip up.
Just looking at him makes my skin crawl! Have these women never heard of GEORGE CLOONEY???
Just….ewwwwwwww!
G R O S S!!! Steve from Blues Clues. I think Anthony from the Wiggles is hotter than he is. Oh you are right I need to get out more.
Oh yeah, sure, Anthony’s hot…but the Zooboomafoo boys are the ones who really make me say “Why don’t you watch a little TV, Amelia?” Something about the receding hairlines and the forced laughter mixed with the passion for wildlife and the creative control over their show… Aging gracefully gets me every time.
I just have to add my voice to the chorus and say: ewwwwwwww!
I totally fall into the pediatrician category
<BR><BR>love, that DC momtourage member
I can honestly say that I fall into the pediatrician category, too. But, I also have to say that I think the Wiggles are crush-worthy, too (Anthony has my vote)!!
don’t worry ladies-who -have -crushes on their kids character favorites- as yors kids grow , way too quickly i may add, you’ll pass this phase and follow other characters that are older and more sumptious- it’s just really hard when you’ve haven’t got much of theoutside world in you instead its p nut buter in your hair black crap on clothig from formula and oh yeah that “i’m real sexy right now feeling” you have at that particular time when steve or peewee or the pediatricvian or any one else you have alot of contact with even if its on tv because you hear from no one else SO REMEMBER YOUR POST FOR WHEN YOU DO HAVE SOME ACTUAL TIME FOR “”“"YOU”“”“” ALONE IT WON’T BE STEVE YOUR THINKING ABOUT!!! so go ahead and have that crush cause blues clues and the wiggles go to hannah montana and brittany spears much quicker than we think Babsdabbles age 45 1 son 25 y/o -1 informally adopted now married 7 months from being a dad and also in iraqalong with the blessed 9 year old 16 years after my first whatever you do unless your crazy have ALL your kids young!! or you’ll be doing this again
God knows why I’m commenting on a post from… what, fall of 2007. And being a straight guy who has no dog in this fight…. Steve, though, I think is a bit cooler than all of you are crediting him for. His head is now shaved, he’s toured a bit w/ the Flaming Lips, and has one heck of a funny song on Jack’s Big Music Show—the episode that featured Jon Stewart. I Hog The Ground. It’s worth a trip to Youtube.