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.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

The stuff in this article is a big DUH!
It's sad society has to read it in an article to understand how things should really be. Men are men, woman are woman, all the baloney in between is, just what it is: Baloney.

[neverdem]

IIRC, your daughter is quoted in this article.

[McGavin999]

Don't expect the NYT types to understand it, they're busy getting their hands manicured.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

McGavin999 wrote:
Don't expect the NYT types to understand it, they're busy getting their hands manicured.

--> I KNOW the Sanfangciscans are definately getting theres manicured! What a sucky azz city! I bite my nails when they get too long until i can cut them back.

[Straight Vermonter]

I knew if I waited long enough....

Now if only being bald would be in....

[Lexinom]

On a broader societal scale it is the confusion and functional compromise of the gender roles, led in large part by feminsim, to which much of the cultural decay must be adduced.

What this finding should do is free young, marriage-minded men to think like men, act like men, and treat women like ladies...

(I have little concern or sympathy for the non-marriage minded; sorry, I have one wife, have never slept around and don't identify with those who do).

[Rca2000]

Guess this included me, then. My hands are rough, from burns, scrapes, shocks, and pokes, incurred from my profession, and I do NOT buy grooming products at a salon(but I DO get my hair styled, and cut there, on occasion).

As for face cream, hand cream, etc-- isn't that what heat-sink compound is for ?LOL!!

[Jaysun]

"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."

Ten bucks says this trollop had coat hanger scars on her forehead at birth.

[hoagy62]

*BUUUUUUUUURRRP!*
*hack* Ptoo!

'Bout dang time, too!

[Jaysun]

Ten bucks says this trollop had coat hanger scars on her forehead at birth.

Roll the sails up on that last one - I misread it. She's not a trollop or a radical feminist, and I'm sure that she doesn't have coat hanger scars on her forehead.

[fish hawk]

you call yours baloney but I have another name for mine. LOL

[fish hawk]

On this subject, baloney may not have been a good metaphor to use. (snickering)

[CzarNicky]

"Women are looking for confident men, not manly men," says David Wygant, relationship consultant and co-author of "Always Talk to Strangers." "These manly men are arrogant. Women don't want arrogant men."

sounds like someone has sand in his vagina.

[oceanperch]

IMO Manly Men were never OUT.

[Jeff Chandler]

Wow, I'm in fashion again!

[Soul Seeker]

Ouch! This has got to hurt the "femi-nazi's".

It is arrogant to assume human nature can be defied because the small minority are tired of acting in accordance with their gender. Eventually people tire of "living a lie" and revert back to form. Men will act like men. Women will act like women. Just the way it is and should be.

[1FASTGLOCK45]

LOL!
Baloney! Baloney! I only used baloney cause that is all that would come to mind. Don't worry it is early in the morning after all.

[risk]

ping

[Salamander]

I snort derisively at their "discovery".

I've been surrounded by barbarian men my whole life.

[and I *love* it].....;))