January Jones Is My New Hero

I don't watch Mad Men. I recognized January Jones' name from being on fashion pages before anyone knew anything about her. I certainly knew nothing about her except that she has a cool name. But I learned lots of fun facts from her GQ cover story like:

1. "I hung out with dudes in high school,” she says. “We were the hippies—into the Dead, Zeppelin, Phish. I was a lifeguard at the water park, and I remember the day Jerry died."

2. "I’m a beer-pong champion! Among my friends, anyway."

3. "I don’t really go to clubs all that much—I just like going to friends’ houses, playing Wii, having a beach fire in Malibu. I’m always the first person at every party to ask if we can make a fire.”

4. “Dear men of America, I like beer, I like football. I’m probably the most interesting girl you’ll ever meet.”

Aside from the fact that January Jones is insanely hot and much blonder than I am, the majority of those quotes could have come out of my mouth. In fact they have, save the one about the day Jerry Garcia died (though I did just buy a dancing bears bumper sticker, and when I was 13, my biggest goal in life was to be a hippie).

I like beer and football and hippies. I've tried to take boys down in beer pong (that story will come soon -- don't you worry). I have told many boys before that I like bars and sports bars and sports, and I get one of two reactions -- one, that I say that so they'll like me but I'm really lying, or two, that I'm a really cool chick who can hang with the boys and not make fun of their beer guts. Little do they know that I'm like any other needy, over-analytical chick, but let them figure that out later. Truth is, it's not a lie. I hate wine and first date dinners and ruffly shirts.

I like dive bars and house parties and mix tapes and not needing to make excuses for it, but turns out, you always have to make excuses. If you're too girly, if you're too tomboy-ish, if you try too hard to please others, if you're too selfish, if you're too sexy, if you're too prudish. Ever notice that boys never have to make excuses for who they are? They just... are. Most things in life are full of double-standards for girls and guys. Just saying "I like beer" can be taken as something besides, oh, "I like beer." Sometimes I think it must be so much easier being a dude. Actually, I think that all the time.

But then again, doesn't "I'm a beer pong champion" seem way hotter coming out of January Jones' mouth than say, your frat boy ex?

Thought so.

Photo: Courtesy of GQ