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I thought you'd have something to say. About the "comeback," I was thinking our kind was about ready to expire. The MetroIneffectual trend was making me wonder if I had become a dinosaur. I ain't using no skin moisturizers, no ma'am. Haircuts should be quick and painless. Attire should fit the task at hand. And suave just doesn't describe my language. But I have to say in corporate America, it's still preferred. Just try disputing the use of pink or some other effeminate trapping on the basis that it isn't masculine enough in today's workplace. The men will rush to defend pink as "sensitive!"

Correctamundo on that, risk, my boy. The feminists have won over the workplace in perpetuity, by law, despite articles like this. Work used to be the best place to find a soulmate. Try it over the last few years, you get fired and the company gets sued.

I met my wife at work. When I retired, the men didn't even talk to the women anymore for fear of some BS harassment charge.

LOL!
I have -lots- to say on this subject.

90% of the men I see on a daily basis are wearing camo/flannel/t-shirts/jeans and work boots.
They have hats that sport the logos of farm implements/weapons/whiskies/motorcycles/trucks.
None of them own anything "pink".

Most of them have facial hair of one sort or another.
Hair length varies except for my dad who seems to think "shorter is manlier" to the point he's nearly shaved his head.
He does have a mustache.

At the opposite end of the hair spectrum is hubby who is blessed with a magnificent head of dark [getting salt and pepper now] wavy, thick Sicilian hair.
I think it would be a sin to cut it.
['course as you can tell by my "me" page, haircutting is hangup for me anyway]...:))

Before hubby took early retirement he was a welder at the local prison.
His boss resented the biker ponytail hubby sported and once said he "looked like a girl". [which is also disproved on my me page]
Hubby told the boss that anytime he felt ready, he was welcome to take him out into the parking and "try to put a dress on him".

The hair issue was never raised again.....:)

My bathroom is loaded with the innumerable accoutrements of femininity.
Hubby owns a bar of Ivory soap, a bottle of Pert Plus, a towel and a Schick razor.

All his clothes are black except for a few dark plaid work shirts.

His work shoes are Brahma boots and his "dress" shoes are black harness boots.

He's blunt, rough, crude and socially unacceptable amongst "polite society" and I don't think I've ever seen his big calloused hands perfectly, completely clean.
I wouldn't trade him for a million social milquetoasts...:)

[My ex was his diametric opposite. That is part of the reason why he is my ex]...LOL!

But I have to say in corporate America, it's still preferred. Just try disputing the use of pink or some other effeminate trapping on the basis that it isn't masculine enough in today's workplace. The men will rush to defend pink as "sensitive!"

That's because they are a bunch of weak, timid, followers. If you want to show you're a real man, an alpha male, and not a milquetoast, buck the trend. I wear black jeans or olive green jeans instead of khakis. I wear shirts designed to not be tucked in. No belt. I have one of those goatees with no mustache. And anyone who doesn't like it can kiss my @ss. When you actually have talent, you don't have to roam the corporate halls like a scared little conformist. I love it when I see these shiny shoed, polo shit wearing little fagalas. I'm totally free of any of that.