York's distinct lack of hot men

My girl friends are the inspiration for many a heated debate; this one is regularly discussed, always argued, and has never resulted in my male friends shouting at me quite so much.

York is a small city, and as such has fewer people but why does that equate to a lesser proportion of hot men? Seriously. It's beyond a joke.

This is not a personal attack but simply one of those topics that has been discussed and discussed, and now, as I ready myself to leave, and having met a variety of girls along my three years, I feel informed enough to discuss it publicly. That and the fact I've finished my degree so can stop wondering about syntax and focus on much more pressing matters.

To test this theory out, last Monday I took a tally of men walking past Vanbrugh C Block (apologies if you know this was you) and counted 81 'No', 13 'Maybe' and 13 'Yes'. On Thursday whilst adventuring in London I think I could have easily reversed those figures.

My darling male companions, once they'd stopped shouting, told me a) I shouldn't write this blog (mainly because they wouldn't talk to me again) and, more importantly, b) the reason that girls like me make sweeping statements like this is because we're nicer about each other.

So a girl's version of 'pretty' is much more generous than a bloke's. Which also suggests they have high standards - which is sort of against every piece of advice that women's magazines have ever distributed. And aren't men always saying women are bitches about each other? But yet we call our kin 'pretty' more often? Hmm, a flaw in the argument there boys!

So is it? Yes, I do realise it's all subjective. But the fact that our house actually text if we find a group of good looking men to alert the others suggests it is a rare experience (the best spot was Sunday Week 0, Term 2, 2nd Year when it appears the whole rugby team were doing their work on the third floor).

On Thursday in The Gallery I found the first female to disagree with this statement. She said she knew several hot men in York (and that she’d Facebook me their names - for which I'm still waiting) but then she did admit that “York does have some grotesque men”. On the flip side, our male friend added “and women!” Three more (female) coursemates then joined us who all agreed – York is some sort of vacuum for good-looking men.

Before you throw comments at me telling me that you either know, go out with, or (quite arrogantly) are a hot man, we discovered another pair of phenomena: there are some hot couples, but a lot of these have blokes from home and thus not from York; and, sprouting from this, there are a massive number of long-distance relationships in York.

Is this just an excuse though - do we blame the lack of opposite sex for our plain lack of it? Do we, as one housemate suggested, just have high standards, or is it that the majority York students are more focused on things like their degree than that opposite sex, which would mean we deserve our oh-so-witty 'Dork University' title.

I do know one thing though: although there are several fabulous men here (who will probably never talk to me again), in an alternative guide to York the opposite sex has to be relatively low score out of ten!

(I also promised I'd put a disclaimer that this doesn't relate to any of my friends or they'll lynch me!)

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