Symmetric or near-symmetric guitar and bass shapes do little for me, the SG being the noteworthy exception. Ok, add the Flying V to that.
It's against nature if you're lower half is exactly the same as your upper half. Non-symmetric shapes such as the Explorer, TBird, Stratocaster, single-cut Les Paul, Telecaster, Iceman, Jazz Bass and Ric 4001/4003 do it for me. I find them more elegant, there is more motion to their shape, symmetry tends to look too cute.
And the Les Paul Junior (or Doublecut), which apparently has so many fans here, looks to me like a toy guitar ... there I said it.
You only partially remembered the last time this came up ("or near-symetrical"; LOL such a lawyer), but you tear your own theory to pieces with the noted exceptions and complete distaste for the LP Jr DC (which is no more symetrical than a Strat... what it is is rounder).
Face it, you just like pointy guitars. Symmetry has
nothing little to do with it (see I can be a lawyer too).
Yes I consider a Strat pointy (especially super strats by other brands)... The Tele is tenuous but it does have that rounded over point in the cutaway. RDs and TBirds remind you of Explorers with rounded over points (which warmed you up for the Teles) as if they are cliffs that had been eroded by the sea over centuries. The LP's Florentine cuttaway is by defenition pointy.
The ultimate test, how do you feel about Gretsches or the Gibson Super 400 CES? Remember, turn off the lawyer with that need to win and be honest with yourself; we have a real opportunity for growth and self discovery here. And yes, after we get to the bottom of this, we'll have a nice comforting cuddle in a comfy blanket nest; just like after a rough BDSM session. We love you anyway Uwe, penchant for spandex and all.