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Why was Marnie such a man magnet?


Is it just that she's really pretty? She came off to me as extremely uptight and snobbish, I honestly couldn't understand why all the guys on the show were wanting so much to be with her. Ray admitted that he didn't find her to be a terribly likable person, yet he spends most of Season 3, 4 and 5 pining after her. Do guys often put women with princessy attitudes on a pedestal?


I enjoy Girls but I have to say I find the romantic couplings to be improbable. What could compel the approaching-middle-aged Ray to date a bratty, immature 21-year-old? Shoshanna wasn't attractive or intelligent, I don't think I recall her making a single thoughtful remark throughout the entire show.

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Ray isn't exactly Liam Hemsworth, so I'd say Shoshanna was out his league. She's young and cute and bubbly and brutally honest in a way that sets her apart from other girls. Ray is not the first 'middle-aged' man to fall for those qualities.

I don't think it's right to say she's unintelligent. She's a ditz, but an insightful one. She went to college and used what she learned there to save his business. Plus she got a great job in Japan.

As for him and Marnie...well, opposites attract.

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But why were all the men so obsessed with Marnie? She was such a cold person..... obviously she was beautiful but not charming or magnetic at all. Is it just that Ray was putting her on a pedestal because she was like the popular girls in high school?



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They're not all obsessed with Marnie? Charlie was her college boyfriend and it's easy enough to see why they got together. And why they broke up and got back together and broke up and...

Yes, Marnie is beautiful, but I think Ray's attraction to her goes deeper than that. Part of it is he's a bit of a masochist. He falls for women that he knows will make him miserable in the end. And another part of it is he just likes her, despite himself. I think she can be charming and magnetic, when she's not being WASPy and tightly wound.

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exactly, and even in episode 1 we see from his dinner party date that he's into superficial girls. I believe his date says something totally ludicrous like "Im sorry, I didnt mean to be rude, Im just not really into eating this week". I feel like maybe he gets some sort of validation from dating the pretty popular type girl that undoubtedly rejected him in high school.

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I didn't even find her that beautiful. She has a symmetrical face, a thin body and she is white so I guess she checks every box for what makes someone a traditonal American beauty. I guess traditionlly she is better than the other 3 girls. Well, I think Jemima is actually very beautiful.

Women like Marnie always have someone to date. I mean she is smart, she can be funny, she practices good hygiene lol. She dresses ok and, like I said before, she's thin and white. And she is always looking for the next best thing. She is always available. You would think that she's unattainable, but as we have gotten to know her, she really isn't. She seems confident, but she's not. She seems driven and like she has her stuff together, but she's totally lost. She can get men interested based on how she presents herself, but they never stay.

I don't even think Charlie really loved her. He thought that he did. Let's pretend season 3 and everything after that never happened. If they stayed together for a few more years, his app was still providing him with a decent living, and he never became a crack head, they would probably still break up eventually. He seemed like he just didn't want to be alone or like he couldn't let go of his first real relationship. She only wanted him back because he was doing well, she wasn't, being with him was comfortable, and he would validate her existence.

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What an odd comment. You do realize that America is made up of more than just white people, right? There are plenty of beautiful American women who aren't white. I could understand saying she's thin, and that's all it takes. But, white? Odd.

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Where did I say only white people live in America? My point is that women like her are the standard of beauty in our country. White, symmetrical and thin. I know that there are beautiful women of all colors. They're not put on a pedestal the same way, though. I'm not white so I should know.

I'm not about to go back and forth about race on this forum. If you disagree we can leave it at that. I was saying that, objectively, she has her pick of the litter, yet she is still insecure because of other things in her life that have nothing to do with all of that superficial crap.

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You nailed it.

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She's being a bit self deprecating and has contempt for "America's Ideal of Beauty".

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Charlie absolutely loved her.

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She is rail thin with amazing hair, teeth, skin, eyes, and everything else. She is gorgeous. Men overlook her personality, Since she is beautiful.

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Marnie is my favorite character and the "Girl" I relate to the most but she does have a lot of selfish/unlikeable moments. I guess her fun/cool moments, beauty and presentability makes up for it.

Besides, I don't think any of Marnie's guys except Charlie were hot at all.

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In a nutshell, because she is attractive, thin and well groomed/takes care of herself.
Having said that though, I actually don't think it comes across on the show that she is such a man magnet. She has hooked up with 5 guys that I can think of (booth, Charlie, Ray, Elijah and Desi), that's not a lot. If anything I feel like she is perceived as being a turn off to guys because of her personality.

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I agree. Not sure what the OP is saying.

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dont forget about the seth rogen doppelganger she hooks up with at Jessas wedding lol

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Because she's beautiful.

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Marnie is good looking and will have sex with just about every man who looks at her for more than 4 seconds straight. I would be happy to have a chance with her.

Hannah will have sex with any man who looks at her for more than 3 seconds straight. Fortunately, I wouldn't be one of those.

Jessa really does it for me. I think it is her hair and her mouth.

Shoshanna would do in a pinch, I think. Unlikely if she would get a second date though.

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