Posted on 07/17/2007 5:31:06 AM PDT by period end of story
Time was when a woman had to please a man. He was her meal ticket for life. She competed to catch him, dieting, simpering, smiling.
The fear for the woman was of being left on the shelf, humiliated.
No more. Now women want to be stick-like and beautiful to please themselves or impress other women - not men. Women like to have partners: they don't need to have partners. And so it is the man who has to make the effort to please.
He, too, diets, uses cosmetics, has his hair styled - and, in increasing numbers, as he gets older, like women, turns to the quick fix: cosmetic surgery.
Like it or not, ''the male menopaunch'', as this worrying trend for beating the bulging waistline with surgery has been dubbed, has become something of a phenomenon.
The number of liposuction operations for older men has risen by 140 per cent during the past five years - and the appetite continues to soar - eight times the number of men are enduring it as did three years ago.
They see no need to keep it secret either - or confine the surgery to their waistlines. In 2003, General Sir Mike Jackson, 63, had his eyes ''seen to''. Silvio Berlusconi, 70, had a face lift and a hair transplant. Actor Michael Douglas has had all sorts done.
The menopaunch syndrome, we are told, peaks in the early fifties, at about the age when women decide to divorce or split because they can afford to; it is now socially acceptable, the children have left home, and the new life, sometimes even the new career, calls.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
when shallow people look for shallow things, shallowness and vanity are the result. when deep people look for depth, the shallow doesn’t matter.
It’s the personality, baby. not the looks...........it the men are yelling, controlling, pouting...forget it. If they are funny, agreeable, pleasant to others....get it?
Garbage.
He’s happier in his crate, or so I am told...
Great, narcissism wins the day.
My favorite line on this subject comes from Dotty Parker, who in describing Ernest Hemingway said, “Deep down, he’s really superficial.”
Especially after being neutered.
Well, that kind of goes without saying, doesn’t it...
Yes it’s garbage, but there is , at least, a ring of truth to this article.
We are living through a radical experiment. Won’t know all the consequences for 500 years.
Well, the culture has boiled down to images: the prettier, the better.
>>>>>He, too, diets, uses cosmetics, has his hair styled - and, in increasing numbers, as he gets older, like women, turns to the quick fix: cosmetic surgery.
Like it or not, ‘’the male menopaunch’’, as this worrying trend for beating the bulging waistline with surgery has been dubbed, has become something of a phenomenon. <<<<<
BS, just ask Howard Stern, Larry King, and a dozen or so other hideous looking men.
MONEY makes you handsome. And that’s the fact.
check out the pic in the first post. is that the guy you work with?
Rather full of themselves, aren’t they?
Apparently she’s rather have a gimp than a man.
They are also media stars, and that has as much to do about their ability to attract a mate as their money.
Truer words were never spoken. Women want the security. They don't want to be living with some dude who lives paycheck to paycheck to make ends meet. They want to stay home spit 4 kids and have that secure lifestyle while the man is out trying to work hard to support the life then dies of a friggin heart attack at 60
I’m thinking of getting my eyes done, the bags under them aren’t developing fast enough to keep pace with my thinning hair.
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