According to Mirriam-Webster, this might just be spot on, since it defines "cute" as "attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way."
We single women use “cute” in a different way than perhaps other people do. I know a lot of 200-pound hairy Marines my girlfriends and I regard as being extremely cute. It doesn’t just mean “attractive or pretty especially in a childish, youthful, or delicate way” anymore.
But Obama is right out. Cute is as cute does. He’s handsome in a metrosexual way, and being an adult woman I have no use for metros.