A pocketful of saudade.
Apart from the most fervent fetishists, many would find this personality to be straddling a thin line between grotesquely adorable and profoundly annoying. Methinks.
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OMG NO NOSECONES
There was a girl in elementary school that was kind of like this - ran everywhere, or walked really fast on her tiptoes, always smiled and despite living in abject poverty, was pretty much in a good mood until something happened to her in high school. I forget what, but it wasn't plesant. Fell into the wrong crowd or something.
When she was generally a sunny and pleasant person to be around, people still found her annoying - but that was more due to the family she was part of, and their awful reputation.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.
A pocketful of saudade.
I also might add that whether the said girl is attractive is important. We (men and women) have a much greater patience for the better-looking, subconsciously. Oh look she's dragging me to plumb her toilet! I may grumpily do the job, or I may just tell her to sod off.
It's not fair, but such are things.
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"I also might add that whether the said girl is attractive is important." - Catalogue
Right, but the remark about girls showing more Genki Girl traits in all-girls' schools, with the lack of male prescence, than they would in coed schools... as if to imply that something about male prescence makes them hide it... seems to be implying that they'd expect something about the Genki Girl traits to be unappealing in and of themselves independently of looks.
Also, when I say Genki Girl, I am thinking more along the lines of someone like Jessie from Toy Story 2. (Haven't watched the 3rd Toy Story movie yet.) Come to think of it, that or milder. I'm less familiar with other major examples of this, so I figured I should clarify this, since Genki Girl seems to be a phrase applied to a variety of personality types. (Even watching a BIT of Haruhi out of context leaves me convinced Haruhi is a less endearing example.)
A pocketful of saudade.
Ah that makes sense. But like I said it's a very thin line, one slip and it's obnoxious rather than cheerful. That might not be the attitude we'd want to show to, eh, potential mating partners.
Is it not also a trait of our (human, western civilization-inspired) culture that being cool is the way to go?
Perhaps akin to The Glasses Gotta Go. People buy contact lenses, despite the fact that glasses fetishism is affecting a sizable proportion of our population?
edited 8th Oct '10 10:04:30 PM by Catalogue
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I know a gal who verges towards the more extreme edge of this. Greets by biting, dressed in rainbow colours with a crapload of bracelets, keyrings and assorted stuff and likes to draw on people.
Whether this verges on obnoxious or not depends on your own mood, and she's smart enough to go bother other people when you aren't up for her antics.
I know what you said, sugar, but 'platonic' still entails a world of ideas.
Exitus Acta Probat
I've known a girl like this. Really energetic, always smiling, with a habit of acting on impulse and talking at people (not with, at) about whatever crossed her mind (which had about 50% chanse of being food, 25% of being something she had done or wanted to do, and 25% of being something completely surreal and often a little frightening). She was at once very cute and very annoying. I'd lean towards cute as she was kinda adorable and did help me become less of a bitter misanthrope (altho that did sort-of backfire, as my personality remained unchanged, now I'm just aware that I'm an evil sonnofabitch).
Contacts aren't just a matter of appearance, some wear them as a matter of convenience. So yeah.
EDIT: Also, could someone rename this thread to "Genki Girls" in real life or something like that please? I originally created this thread title as a snowclone of my other "real life implications of [trope x]" threads but in this case the wording is pretty unfitting in hindsight.
edited 11th Oct '10 4:51:09 PM by neoYTPism
In this thread,
I mentioned the following about the idea of the Genki Girl...
"I can only speak for myself here, but I tend to think of [the Genki Girl personality] as endearing. Well, unless it's of the Jerkass variety of Genki Girl, of course."
Well, slightly paraphrased, of course. But still, what do you think?