female gazing at: Anderson Cooper

For bronxbee, who noted as we were watching CNN’s New Year’s Eve countdown that she considers Anderson Cooper a fox:

I can admit that Cooper is objectively quite handsome, and I respect the intelligence he displays on Anderson Cooper 360 each night, but he hasn’t generally rung my bell. The dashing foreign-correspondent look works well for him, however:

And he certainly knows how to pull off adorable and manly at the same time:

But seeing him cut loose on New Year’s Eve was fun, because he’s always reporting from, like, Darfur or Haiti and being so darned solemn and serious. And he really is supercute when he smiles and laughs, like he mostly only ever gets to do on our TVs on New Year’s Eve...

...when Kathy Griffin is trying to undress him “for America”:

I’m posting pictures like these every weekday, of a man who is attractive and desirable, because I like to look, dammit -- and because the female gaze doesn’t have to be such serious business.

(If you have a suggestion for someone we should female-gaze at, feel free to email me with a name or a link to a particular photo.)