Indiana Jones' Crash Course in Wooing Women

Posted by VinniePenn on June 2, 2008 10:33 AM PDT

Tags: Love, adventure, Dating, Harrison Ford, humor, Indiana Jones, Johnny Depp, men, movies, relationships, romance, women

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Harrison Ford has played an endless string of studly characters over the years, but none more dashing than Indiana Jones. What exactly is it about Indy that drives women wild?

Is it the bull whip? the hat? the ability to dodge rolling boulders?

More importantly, what can we learn from his success to increase our own luck with the ladies?

Is it the Fedora? Maybe. Not many men can pull off a hat and women love a man who can do so with style. Wearing a baseball cap backwards doesn’t count—that’s ended a few dinner plans for me in the past.

Is it the adventure-loving part of his personality? Well, maybe not adventure loving, but he has a habit of attracting trouble; a gravitational pull not unlike the bad boy’s — and we all know about women and their love of bad boys.

Therein lies Indy’s #1 lure: Will you be the woman who can keep him teetering back and forth solely between books and sex, ending the crypt-robbing and the mummifying, taking him from a tomb to your womb. Damn, I could go on and on!

A recent Gallup poll showed that the extraordinarily popular “Dangerous Book for Boys” was one of the top choices purchases by women for the man in their life last year, whether he’s 13 or 30. One woman states, “Every female loves a man who can do some of the stuff in this book. All of it? You can have any woman you want!”

I own a copy and can do nothing listed in the book. Plus, it has three rings on the cover from where Red Bull cans sat atop it. “Dangerous Book for Boys” details how to do such things as building a fire and making smoke signals, filing stones to fashion your own arrows, etc. It’s basically Boy Scouts 2.0.

It’s no surprise women want to feel safe with a guy- if their car breaks down he’ll be able to identify edible blackberries rather than rely on his Blackberry to get them out of a jam. Roughing it is not vacationing somewhere without a Starbucks. Well, really it is, but you get my point.

Here’s why women “dig” Indy:

1) He’s passionate. Sure, it’s about humdrum hieroglyphics but it’s something, and it ain’t video games.

2) He’s intelligent. Even the hardest-partying, easygoing woman prefers a guy who can, say...okay, maybe not read a map, but at least a fortune cookie.

3) He has fears and isn’t afraid to cop to them. Indy has a thing about snakes—they terrify him and are the only things that do. Cop to a fear in front of a woman and let the swooning begin. Just don’t let it be clowns—that’s played out.

Even the most teenage boy-driven fictional hero, someone created solely with a male demographic in mind, can still teach you a thing or two about the opposite sex. In fact, the only thing that could make Indiana Jones sexier to women is if Johnny Depp played him.

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Mr. Ford was also recently featured for his sexiness in this Dugg story:

http://digg.com/celebrity/Kim_Kardashian_Batman_Kenny_Chesney_and_Hulk_H...

Buried.

This is an article?

I think women like harrison ford and dont get me wrong I would have to try to stay straight around him. But I think Johnny Depp is kind of a deushebag when it comes to women and Harrison Ford is like the god of all men. Come on if you were to take what every guy wanted to be harrison would be that guy.

Well, he is not only Indy but Han Solo too, both of whom can kick that pirate Depp played across a playground.

He's Harrison Ford.

No, I think it's the whip.

What the hell was that? Is poor writing skill a requirement for having a blog now days?

Clearly, good writing SKILLS (plural) isn't a requirement for leaving a piss poor, lame ass comment.

i don't know about harrison ford, but indiana jones is the ultimate man for me!!!! it's the whole "indy" package of the fedora, leather jacket, whip, adventurousness, the whole professor thing, OMG! if only he really existed...

It's LOOKS. It's always looks.

Critics posting comments are to be ignored. Keep that in mind. I mean just look at those comments.

Make your own blog if you don't like this one. What a troll!

i guess they digg him cos he is rich and famous?

Oof! C'mon Author!!!!
Indy is Independent.
Indy is Confident.
Indy is Internally-Validated.
Indy does not give a crap what Anyone thinks about him.
Indy is relatively untameable.
Indy is the best at his job.
Strength, athleticism.
Has a fairly big network of friends and associates, among whom he is respected.
Indy is absolutely willing to walk away from any woman if they're too high-maintenance.
Given the right circumstances, he's also a tough guy who's willing to emote to the right woman.
He doesn't really chase that much. He is the prize.
He's got a sense of humor, and a bit sharp one at times.
He's Ambitious and Proactive about the artifacts/locations in his field.
He's got a very strong frame and is not easily rattled by anyone's actions/words.
etc, etc, etc.

The last comment was a better article and explanation than the blog post. Well done, and I think you are correct. Those attributes of indy are well document attributes that women find attractive. n-duh

I enjoyed all of these comments on the blog! Seriously! Even the amazingly idiotic ones. I don't know, however, that anyone needed to defend Indy, as the blog is praising him. Some of you seemed to miss that. I also think it's important to keep in mind that...um...he's a fictional character.

I think it's always inaccurate to talk about what "women" or "men" want. Women are as different from each other as they are from men. I realize that this is a humorous, fluff piece but I find it irritating when I read elsewhere that women "love" shoes, shopping and Sex in the City when I can't stand any of those things. Give me a guitar and a cold beer, any day, over shoe shopping and Cosmos.

Point taken! Great comment, and a good reminder, especially as I am usually quick to point out the risks in making sweeping generalizations.

Why do people have to be so critical? Harrison Ford is perfect for Indy as long as you're my age, which is almost HIS age... Now you have Indy jr. for the younger crowd, yes?

I absolutely love Indiana Jones movies and I really do love him. I'm not really a fan of Harrison Ford, but he is great as Indy. He is honest, brave, smart, funny, etc. Yes, it's easy to love a fictional character. Why can't there be more guys like Indiana Jones? or Incredible Hulk?

LOL. VinniePenn I think you are a great blogger! Again, humor used wisely, content that I think everyone can (or should) be able to relate to and just in general enjoyable to read.
"...he’ll be able to identify edible blackberries rather than rely on his Blackberry to get them out of a jam." That is a great quote!

PS~ Anyone who leaves an Anonymous comment clearly doesn't have any...ahem... 'guts' and therefore shouldn't be leaving comments about what women want. :)