Hold the quiche: Manly men are back

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | April 7, 2005 | Amy Doolittle

[neverdem]

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The Washington Timeswww.washingtontimes.com

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Hold the quiche: Manly men are back

By Amy Doolittle
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published April 7, 2005

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Women want the "man" back in "manly," a Harris Interactive survey shows. The rough-and-ready attitude is in, women say, while the manicured "metrosexual" look is on the way out.

    A full 61 percent of women surveyed said they would rather see a man's hands rough and working hard than well-manicured, a slap in the face to the extreme-makeover, suave-guy crowd.

    Ninety-two percent of women said dependability is a desirable characteristic in an ideal mate. Only 16 percent chose "fashionable," and 62 percent chose "strong" as a desirable characteristic.

    The Harris survey was commissioned by Dodge Trucks. The results, researchers say, are a testimony to the enduring power of sex roles on society.

    "It just shows that there are some things that you can't change and that, while feminism for a long time has been pushing us towards androgyny with little girls with trucks and guys with dolls, women tend to have feministic traits and guys the opposite," says Carrie Lukas, director of policy with the Independent Women's Forum. "If anything, it shows what feminism hasn't been able to accomplish."

    The Harris survey was conducted among 1,003 men and 1,128 women 18 or older from across the United States. Among the findings:

    •75 percent of women said their ideal man buys his grooming products at a grocery store or drugstore, not a salon.

    •72 percent of women said their ideal man spends his free time doing home-improvement projects.

[RandallFlagg]

**((blush))**

Thank you.

[Salamander]

Which color/weight/brand/width?....LOL!

[Salamander]

It's the hair, man.
Chicks dig the hair....;)

[Godebert]

"It's hard if the lady is half-asleep and the lights are off. They get a wet bottom and and wake up."

Just show her where the light switch is.

[RandallFlagg]

Heh-heh! My vacation officially started yesterday and last night, I shaved all the whiskers off my face (I usually have long handlebar fuzzies surrounding my mouth). When I took my Wife out to lunch, there was a small group of tenny-boppers staring at me. I didn't notice them, but my Wife did and told me.

I guess this is my day for multiple blushing.

(The hair works perfectly for infiltration and reconnaissance of the leftist trash, too!)

[Focault's Pendulum]

Which color/weight/brand/width?....LOL

There's only one...Gray...It's Really Duct Tape...accept no substitutions....at least four inches wide....

Having revealed all about myself....I think I want to date you.

[BobS]

"And after that night, the next project was his own bathroom where I don't care *where* his toilet seat is....:))"

Actually that works! Put a 'Men' and 'Women' sign on each. It gives your visitors some direction also, if you put those arrows you find in casinos on the walls too!!

[BobS]

"Just show her where the light switch is."

And limit her intellectual achievement?

[toothfairy86]

That's like the study funded by Hershey's that said milk chocolate prevents tooth decay.

[Salamander]

"(I usually have long handlebar fuzzies surrounding my mouth)"


OMG!
Have you gone mad?!?

Why did you do that?!?

[diehard facial fur fan]...:))

[Foxfire4]

Did he get the whole "makeup" thing?

Not even. Though you've gotta love a man who tells you you don't need makeup and believes it.

I have also given up on getting him to distinguish between my black shoes, my black shoes, and my black shoes.

[John Lenin]

Ultimately, metrosexuality was done in by its own inherently flawed logic. There simply weren't enough warm bodies to man the barricades. While it was true that the nation abounded with young, urban males who obsessed about clothing and body hair and who did not mind being thought of as gay, this was because they were, in fact, gay. Metro- sexuality was the cultural equivalent of The Blair Witch Project, a case of fleeting mass delusion that left everybody feeling horribly embarrassed after it was over. Personally, I can't wait till my chest hair grows back.

[hosepipe]

[ Women want the "man" back in "manly," a Harris Interactive survey shows ]

Take it out...
Put it back...
Take it out...
Put it back...
Take it out...
Put it back...

Sheeese.. dearys make up your freepin minds..

[rudy45]

Someone said, on an earlier thread, that a man's job is to protect women. I know that sounds chauvinistic, but frankly i think it's true.

[Salamander]

His is downstairs and has a door to the outside so his buddies can use it when they do the "hangin' out at the bike shop" thing.

[Salamander]

Hubby believes the no makeup thing too.
[which makes me question his sanity]....LOL!

*Nobody* has ever successfully counted the various shades of black....:)

[Salamander]

Doesn't sound chauvinistic to me.
I expect it.
It's nature.

[Doc On The Bay]

God Bless You, Salamander; it Isn't That your "Man" MUST BE "Some sort of 'Neanderthal;' it's that the "Male" of our species be allowed to Function as " a Male!"

Over the Past two Generations, the "Radical Feminist/ Terrorists" have attempted to DICTATE HUMAN Sociology/Biology/Psychology!!

Their Problem Is, The "Feminist Fantasy" Doesn't coincide with the "Human Reality!!

Neither Men, nor Women "Correspond to" the "Belief Structure" of the "Feminists!"

Despite Their "Fondest Hopes," WOMEN & MEN are DIFFERENT!

The NEAT Thing Is,--The "Sexes are "Complementary!!"

WHAT A SHOCK!!

After a Gazillion Epochs of Development--Human Men & Women have been "Engineered to" "Develop Together!!"

"What a Surprise!!"

Men NEED Women--Women NEED Men; it's IN the Genes!!

Are we SO STUPID that we Cannot See This??

Doc

[Salamander]

"Are we SO STUPID that we Cannot See This??"

Apparently *they* are....;)

[Barnacle]

Manly men are back

Real men never did give a rat's ass whether manhood was in or out of fashion.

And, they still don't.