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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This has been the trend in Asia for some time. To think that it wasn't coming here, or wasn't already here, was naive.
“Harry Styles”
Never heard of her.
That’s a GUY? OMG. I, too, would laugh. Add a man bun to the mix, and I’m hysterical.
Looks like we are gonna need a war to MAN UP!-)
Yep. None of them could handle waking before dawn to saddle horses and ride fence. None of them could be part of a branding crew.
None of them could field strip a rifle if their life depended on it.
I couldn’t imagine them working in a dockyard, or hauling freight across country.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing new. River Phoenix and later, young Leonardo DiCaprio both swooned girls with their feminine good looks.
The popular style changes all the time. But what each sex actually finds attractive does not. We don’t always even like the traits we are wired to be attracted to.
I think there is a difference between girly-man Harry Styles and Tom Holland, who just happens to be 5’ 8”. Tom Holland plays a character who is high school age, so the height works to make him appear younger than he is. But the character is also brave and not afraid to fight.
I remember this from fifty years ago when all the boy heart throbs on the cover of TEEN and TIGER BEAT magazines looked like young girls.
Average length of stay on a cover was three months, then they would be dumped for a new heart throb girly boy.
Don’t all Korean males eventually have to serve in the Army? That’s going to be interesting.
Well, LOL, there's always exceptions....
And remember when Sinatra started, he was as skinny as a rail, and most guys at the time thought he was kind of a pansy.
Gay
Translation: “Perverted Hollywood producers, directors, and managers select soy boys to molest.”
“Harry Styles”
...is a pussy.
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