I just don't want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member!
- Woody Allen's characater in the movie Annie Hall
I don't know what context Groucho Marx made a similar statement in, but Woody Allen's character says this in the movie when he realizes that he is avoiding sex with a woman who is good in every way, who likes him and who wants to have sex with him.
This is a situation most people would be familiar with. Somehow, the person who is far from us, who is almost a stranger, who won't have us, who outright rejects us, ends up inducing more interest us, grabbing more of our attention than the person who is close, who is familiar, who is open and available to us. Never mind if in actuality, the former is a very ordinary person and the latter is very special.
It is the age old Chaser-Chasee syndrome. The typical "familiarity breeds contempt" funda. It is the stupid, maddening Coolidge Effect!
And no one tell me it is true for only men and not for women. It may be more obvious among men, but I have known, seen and heard confessions from enough women to know it is true of women also!
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I think Marisa Tomei talks about this in the movie "Someone Like you" ..the Old Cow concept, I think.That's pretty much the Coolidge Effect in a layman's language.
ReplyDeleteI think Marisa Tomei talks about this in the movie "Someone Like you" ..the Old Cow concept, I think.That's pretty much the Coolidge Effect in layman terms.
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