Um, what? Do men like this actually exist? (or women, for that matter?) Surely no one is universally attractive
Of course not.
A lot of Jordan's characterization is humourous. He took traits that exist, and exagerated them.
Galad's beauty and how female and male characters (over)react to it, and the situations its creates, is over the top for humour's sake (eg: he's so beautiful even Nynaeve has troubles keeping her concentration when speaking to him etc.) How he characterized gender relationships and traits is another of his style of humour; he took clichés like women banding together against men and exagerated it massively, to the point of giving all women nearly the same reactions and body language (people often take this wayyyy too seriously when there's a element of satire or caricature in it). Another example of his humour is taking his experience when he had two girlfriends at once who were fine with that, and exagerated all this into Rand's trio of brides that mean to share him no matter what he thought of it.
Jordan constantly walked the line between keeping it realistic enough (and succeeded - just look at all the fierce debates against or for characters) and incorporating an element of caricature in his characters. That was his style.
So no, Galad's situation isn't fully "realistic", but you just look at 50,000 hysterical teenagers at a boys' band concert and you'll find it's realistic enough, part of the "joke" about Galad is that while he's beautiful enough to attract most women, the rest of them seems to feel compelled (some inconsciously) to join in the flirting not to be outdone by the others (competitivity between women being another trait Jordan exagerated for humour, especially at the White Tower).
Galad
05/10/2011 01:56:01 PM
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to that degree, no
05/10/2011 03:38:44 PM
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Hugh Jackman is not sexy. *NM*
05/10/2011 10:13:48 PM
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Re: Hugh Jackman is not sexy. ??? You must be blind. *NM*
12/10/2011 10:24:41 PM
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He's very attractive in X-Men but otherwise not sexy (I'm not saying he's unattractive) *NM*
13/10/2011 12:48:12 AM
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The man is sex on legs!!! *NM*
13/10/2011 05:45:55 PM
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I think they exist
05/10/2011 07:09:20 PM
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Re: I think they exist
05/10/2011 11:28:26 PM
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You think Galad doesn't have confidence?
06/10/2011 02:11:25 AM
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Galad = Gary Stu
06/10/2011 04:35:55 PM
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I don't know.
06/10/2011 08:13:25 PM
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Yep. Rand, Mat, Perrin, Egwene, Elayne, Aviendha and Nynaeve are all members of the Stu species.
14/10/2011 03:35:23 PM
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It's meant to be funny
06/10/2011 11:40:51 PM
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Excellent points, hadn't really thought of that before. I agree. *NM*
07/10/2011 02:29:43 PM
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If he looked like this guy...
07/10/2011 12:31:49 AM
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I'm just curious as to whether any other culture's women have seen Galad.
12/10/2011 08:47:05 PM
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for some reason I have the feeling we've seen a Seanchan appraisal
13/10/2011 03:33:55 PM
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And I think Birgitte appraised him, as well, but wasn't falling all over herself due to her tastes *NM*
13/10/2011 03:57:51 PM
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Cars look both ways before he crosses the street. Alien abductors asked him to probe them. *NM*
13/10/2011 08:13:12 PM
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