12, total jailbait, and hot, no.

If you don't know about the birds and the bees yet (etc), you might want to skip the??next part and go all the way down to the bottom. Women who do know should keep reading, for my post may contain vital insight into the male mind, if I explain myself well.

When men talk about hot, it is almost always going to be about the physical characteristics and outer beauty of that women. The man is almost always not thinking with his mind here. Hotness is entirely about who a man would rather sleep with, if given the choice and no repurcussions except the actual "sleeping."

Of course, based on personality, confidence, compatibility, and other factors, a??guy may bump up a girl 2 points on a (1-10) hotness scale. 3 is pretty signifigant, and by 4 points (not based on availability), a guy is probably thinking about marrying this girl or he's nuts.

??When talking about a women's persona specifically, men use entirely different words than hot.

The most important ones are cool and psycho. Everything else (smart, funny) can probably be used to describe platonic friends, whether male or female. Cool and psycho are on the two opposite ends of the spectrum, and primarily deal with that girl's relationship to the man. Psycho describes a girl who is controlling and makes unreasonable demands. When the man describes the girl as psycho accurately, she is likely far too dependent on the man and very insecure. The man will use this term when he has no idea what is going on in the woman's mind. This mainly refers to arguments. I'll break it down.

1. Man does something offensive to woman, has no idea what.

2. Man and woman fight.

3. Woman either cries or screams at man.

4. Man has no clue why woman is yelling, doesn't see woman's thought process.

5. Therefore man deems woman psycho.

Cool is when man can see woman's thought process and when woman is angry/sad, man understands why.

***END NSFC*** (not suited for children)

Back to the original topic, I don't think I'd give Toph a second look in the real world. First off, she's 12. No 12 year old can be decribed as hot, except maybe by other 12 year olds. Second of all, not hot at all, and I don't think that'll change in 6 years. Toph also seems "psycho," based on the rant about her not being able to put up signs.

i think there are 2 reasons for people to not like the word ''hot''.

1) because for some people it CAN mean a lot of different things which can make it confusing about what that person exactly means when he says that someone's hot.

2) because for some people it ALREADY means a lot of??different things which makes it hard to use this word for ANYONE.