What’s My Type?

A guy just asked me recently what’s my type when it comes to dating men.  I wanted to answer honestly, but I didn’t know what to say.  Looking at my history, I’ve dated probably one of everything.  I’ve long thought I don’t really have a type.  But I think the whole type thing is completely made up to sell Cosmo quizzes anyway.  Someone’s type is just whomever they’re interested in at that time.  People date outside their type all the time.  I hear girls saying constantly “it’s weird because he’s not my type but he’s so great.”  If you end up with someone who’s not your type, did you ever really have a type to begin with?

I know there are certain traits that make people more or less attractive to each other.  But how often have we fallen for someone that we were completely uninterested in at first.  Doesn’t that disprove the type theory?  It seems to me that there are two ways people use the term.  The first is to refer to physical type, as in people who only like blondes.  The second is the type of person, as in people who like outgoing free-spirits.  I think both of them are meaningless and essentially the result of a self-fulfilling prophecy.  If you tell yourself you’re only attracted to doctors, what happens if there’s a great guy right in front of you who is a vet?