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Why pretty boys have ousted beefcakes as Hollywood hottest heartthrobs: Tom Holland and Harry Styles are the poster boys for 'non-toxic masculinity' who appeal to Gen Z with 'enlightened' views
U.K. Daily Mail ^
| 1/4/2021
| Claire Toureille
Posted on 01/04/2022 8:52:20 AM PST by simpson96
Ten years ago, baby-faced men were passed over in Hollywood for rugged looking stars with more traditionally masculine looks.
But today more feminine-looking actors with delicate features, shorter stature and symmetrical faces are more in demand because they appear to younger viewers, experts claim.
Gen Z audiences are drawn to celebrities like Tom Holland, Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles who embody a 'brand of enlightened non-toxic masculinity', according to beauty expert Laura Kay.
Their symmetrical, heart-shaped faces also make them more photogenic and therefore more popular on Instagram, which has become a key part in the Hollywood marketing machine.
These non-traditional leading men also benefit because younger generations are more tolerant of things which would have seen as 'abnormal' in the past, such as height differences or attitudes to gender, says dating and relationship expert Alex Mellor-Brook.
Tom Holland, 25, who is dating his co-star Zendaya, also 25, for example, is 5ft 8in, shorter than one might expect for a Hollywood A-lister, while Harry Styles, 27, proudly steps out in feminine clothing and has released a range of nail polishes.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: hollywood; men; metrosexual
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Harry Styles.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:52:20 AM PST
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simpson96
To: simpson96
Coincidentally, box office receipts at Hollywood movies is way down.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:53:58 AM PST
by
Fido969
(45 is Superman!)
To: simpson96
But today more feminine-looking actors with delicate features, shorter stature and symmetrical faces are more in demand because they appear appeal to younger viewers, experts claim.Bad copyediting!
Regards,
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:54:38 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: simpson96
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:55:37 AM PST
by
PGR88
To: simpson96
Pasty faced pansyies all the rage. NOT!
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:55:43 AM PST
by
rktman
(Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? đŸ˜•)
To: simpson96
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:56:23 AM PST
by
TexasGator
(UF)
To: simpson96
This is how a nation dies from within. Good grief.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:56:38 AM PST
by
MAGA2017
To: simpson96
America is Over, but I have never heard of this girl before
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:57:04 AM PST
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: simpson96
They are being pushed by the entertainment industry/woke Leftists.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:57:05 AM PST
by
marktwain
(Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
To: simpson96
Wait until hard times come. These guys will get chopped up and used for bait.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:57:24 AM PST
by
beef
(Let’s go Baizuo!)
To: simpson96
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:57:50 AM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: simpson96
“Experts Claim”. More unnamed experts.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:57:59 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: simpson96
Korean boy band BTS (yes, those are all males in that pic). Enormously popular with their young target demographic, world-wide.
To: simpson96
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:59:09 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
To: MAGA2017
Theynare only,writing to,a very very narrow woke crowd. I think,most women still want their man to not run away scrraming when they spot a spider
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:59:12 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: Drew68; Yaelle; Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:59:37 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
To: simpson96
Maybe popular with girls, but I doubt very popular with a much more important demographic...women.
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posted on
01/04/2022 8:59:51 AM PST
by
Codeflier
(Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
To: simpson96
I have never heard of any them. Then again, I haven’t seen any of their movies.
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posted on
01/04/2022 9:00:03 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: simpson96
If this person walked up to me, I’d laugh so hard that I’d wet myself.
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posted on
01/04/2022 9:00:27 AM PST
by
ryderann
To: simpson96
I’m a woman... THOSE are not men
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01/04/2022 9:00:39 AM PST
by
SMARTY
(Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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