EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Everyone Looks Sexier If French

Now, I'm quite familiar with Axis Powers Hetalia and am perfectly aware that France is technically supposed to be the embodiment of this trope - something that is not seen in the photo.

I have no idea how to picture this, though.

The tag's appear to be the wrong way 'round.

Courtesy link 'til it's fixed.

I fixed it. I say keep until something better is suggested. Like someone sexy in a beret...or with a baguette...

Kind of pretty, but nothing says French. To me, it just looks like a face and a caption.

The only good examples I found were NSFW... :/

I found a really great option.

edited 8th Feb '12 9:51:47 AM by agentjohnbishop

Yay for Wearing A Flag On Your Belly

She's cute, but she'd be sexier without the flag on her stomach.

I'm curious what she's got tattooed on her belly between the flag and the waist of her jeans...

Eh, matter of opinion, it still shows the trope pretty well as she's clearly nice-looking and very obviously Frehcn (plus it doesn't invoke any stereotypes). Because "sexier" is so very opinion-based, it's going to be hard to find a pic of someone who is clearly sexier because of being french. I think the best route is someone who is clearly both sexy and French.

edited 8th Feb '12 11:53:30 AM by agentjohnbishop

The trope is not neccesary about french people.... [1]◊

Yes please!

I wouldn't mind that pic if it passes NSFW criterias. Also, it would really help to have a non-French picture to demonstrate that it's not just about that particular kind of blue-white-red. (Which means not Norway, Iceland, Russia, Nepal, UK, USA, Thailand, Chile, Czech Republic, or any of twenty other countries.)

Also, aside from the girl in the middle, they actually look mostly Swedish if I look at their faces.

I'll let a mod make the call on the Swedish chicks.

Could the Swedish bikini girls be reasonably mistaken for porn? No? Not NSFW.

Seriously: if NSFW is grounds for pulling an image (and it is), then that label shouldn't be used carelessly. It means something specific.

edited 8th Feb '12 5:21:38 PM by rodneyAnonymous

The standard for NSFW is "would you get in trouble if someone saw you looking at this picture in your workplace" (aside from the whole "why are you surfing TV Tropes while in your workplace" issue...). I think the Swedish Bikini Girls might be a bit on the risky side. The French Chick With Belly Paint pic is better.

"...aside from the whole 'why are you surfing TV Tropes while in your workplace' issue..."

That is not an aside. If bikini girls on TV Tropes is not okay, then neither is Mickey Mouse on TV Tropes.

NSFW is "would you get in trouble if someone merely notices you looking at this picture in your workplace/school".

edited 8th Feb '12 5:56:28 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Again, the standard is "would you get in trouble if someone saw you looking at this picture in your workplace". The aside part was a joke.

Again (heh), no that is not the standard. That implies it is "could get you in trouble at work/school under any circumstances", which is not true. Joke or not, that point is extremely important. Please read Not Safe for Work. Note the heavy emphasis on "looks pornographic at a glance", medium emphasis on "looks gory at a glance", low emphasis on "looks vulgar at a glance", and zero emphasis on "looks like anything on close inspection".

I feel like that phrase is tossed around too lightly. It's a serious issue.

edited 8th Feb '12 5:54:08 PM by rodneyAnonymous

"zero emphasis on "looks like anything on close inspection"."

I don't understand what you mean by that.

The Swedish Bikini Girls pic is very obviously a bunch of scantily-clad women posed for drool-inducing-ness. Most white-collar workplaces frown on that sort of thing. You probably wouldn't want to be caught reading Maxxim at your workstation either.

I am saying if it's not okay to be caught reading Maxim, it's not okay to be caught reading People either. The relevant question is whether that image looks like porn. You have to be looking a lot more closely to describe it in the terms you gave, and if that is the case, it doesn't matter if they are bikini-clad girls or mumu-clad grandmothers.

"You have to be looking a lot more closely to describe it in the terms you gave"

I don't think so. Even assuming the actual page image would be a bit smaller, if I stand behind my desk at the distance I would be if I were walking in the aisle behind my coworkers at work, the pic is still very clearly a lot of busty women in very small bikinis pointing their attributes at the camera. It's not like it's being shy about it.

Totally. The pic is very clearly a lot of busty women in small bikinis pointing their attributes at the camera. But it doesn't look like porn.

Maxim might be objectionable/risqué and arguably a bad pic on those grounds. NSFW is Hustler.

edited 8th Feb '12 7:52:57 PM by rodneyAnonymous

The Swedish Bikini team doesn't look like this trope either. They're not hotter because they're Swedish. They'd be just as hot in plain blue bikinis.

The only way I can think of to picture this would be to have a group of different nationalities and having only the one be attractive. Other than that I'd be tempted to say that "person is hotter because they're [nationality]" is unpicturable outside of a Lampshade Hanging.

They still look better than any other suggestion.

Yeah, it is really hard to get an image that illustrates the entire trope. Partially, yes, and we have several suggestions for that. I think that's better than no image.