is their a better looking/feeling electric than the strat?

My Girlfriend doesn't play guitar but she says when she pictures an electric guitar it is the type that i have ...now take out your respective strat....just look at that head stock! (not the over sized 70's ones as much but more the classic and modern), it is so beautiful and widely copied understanably so...the body and contouring...amazing!...the slanted front input socket is another treat so much nicer than the straight front gibson sg's...leo really seemed to have the words sleek and contoured in his head at the time...this is not just some hunk of wood, which is what my mind conjures up when i think of the unweidly (unless you have a strap and are standing in a gunslinger stance with it on your lower hip), les paul...the strat sits nicely on your lap , and contours to your body when strapped on and standing...the strats's neck is another creature of beauty in my mind's eye...when i was a youngin' at my jr. high school we had a music dept. and they had one electric guitar and a whole slew of yamaha acoustics, there was always a battle over would get to play the electric,...it was just some cheapo no name type brand of guitar that the school may have paid 200 bucks for, but it was a Strat copy and that was the main thing...when i finally got an after school part time dishwasher's job, i saved up and bought what i could afford which was an overseas Squier...not a great guitar but it did say "Fender" on it and it looked like a Strat...years later when i went out west on my own i bought a black Mexi Strat and was blown away (if you get a good mexi it is no small affair, they can be amazing guitars!)...i could show up at gigs and practice with my "oh it's a Stratocaster, if you must know..." (lol)...i was sooo stoked...still i knew the holy grail laid ahead...now for a gibson fan this road would be longer still (which is weird for a guitar company that at least these days is very inconsistent in their quality control!), but one can get an american strat for 1000 (canadian) brand new and if you want to explore other fancier models you can do so without breaking the 2 grand mark usually...this is not true of les pauls (at least where i live)...not to mention this difference,... the classic vintage electric guitar colour to most is a sunburst...the gibson les paul sunburst's are so bright ...whilst both the 2 and esp. the 3 tone fender sunbursts are deep and rich in colour with more black...do i want a les paul of course, some day...but am i happy i chose the strat as my first high end guitar?...obviously!...and now that we all have access to (if you are prepared to pay the $'s), the deluxe Strat, we can get noiselss notes and chords due to the new high end pup's and a fairly close proxemity to a humbucker sound with the push of the vol. knob whilst still retaining the classic (3 single coil pups) look and tone...
I guess in sumation i have to say that to me and many many others, THE electric guitar IS a Stratocaster...and after slowly climbing the Fender Strat ladder over the years, i can tetsify positively to the high quality and amazing sound these creatures are famous for being intact esp. in the american deluxe model, if you can afford one or finance one at your local store like i did http://www.buffalobrosguitars.com/images20000-20999/ngb20277-fenderstratdlx/index.html ...do it!!!...you'll be ever greatful.
cheers - Otis