Move over Rambo, you're cramping new man's style

Yahoo! News ^ | 6/8/2005 | AFP

[kezekiel]

Macho man is an endangered species, with today's male more likely to opt for a pink flowered shirt and swingers' clubs than the traditional role as family super-hero, fashion industry insiders say.

A study along these lines led by French marketing and style consultants Nelly Rodi was unveiled to Fashion Group International during a seminar Tuesday on future strategy for the fashion industry in Europe.

"The masculine ideal is being completely modified. All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being completely overturned," said Pierre Francois Le Louet, the agency's managing director.

Instead today's males are turning more towards "creativity, sensitivity and multiplicity," as seen already in recent seasons on the catwalks of Paris and Milan.

Arnold Schwarznegger and Sylvester Stallone are being replaced by the 21st-century man who "no longer wants to be the family super-hero", but instead has the guts to be himself, to test his own limits.

"We are watching the birth of a hybrid man. ... Why not put on a pink-flowered shirt and try out a partner-swapping club?" asked Le Louet, stressing that the study had focused on men aged between 20 and 35.

[kezekiel]

From France, of course.

[Coop]

All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being completely overturned," said Pierre Francois Le Louet, the agency's managing director.

We here in America settled this argument last November.

[anonymous_user]

ll the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being completely overturned

"Do what you want to the girl, just don't hurt me!" So sexy.

[concerned about politics]

"The masculine ideal is being completely modified. All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength are being completely overturned," said Pierre Francois Le Louet, the agency's managing director.

That's exactly the way Marx had it planned.
The French are dieing.

[stainlessbanner]

From the article:

[Bluegrass Conservative]

I don't care what anyone says, it's still a classic!!!

[concerned about politics]

In America, people would think that guy was a mentally disabled person.

[stainlessbanner]

Poor fella's got his girlfriend's bloomers on and his suspenders backwards.

[MEGoody]

"All the traditional male values of authority, infallibility, virility and strength"

Sounds like my kind of man. (In fact, I married him.)

[freedomson]

[zarf]

This article is so 90's. Then again Europe is always 10 years behind us in many ways so this makes sense.

[darkwing104]

From France, of course.

They have been this way since the time Nepolian...I figure he was their last real man

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

So now you know what your up against when you go man hunting.

And just so you know I don't take my cues on manhood from some guy who designs shirts for a living.

[ClearCase_guy]

[socal_parrot]

Why not put on a pink-flowered shirt and try out a partner-swapping club?"

Jeez...

[rudy45]

You beat me to it. I thought this post was from 1991 lol

[50sDad]

led by French marketing and style consultants

There's your problem right there.

After 911, we heard all over the place from real, live women that the real heroes were the burly, strong, gutsy men who went in to save lives. I tend to look to real Americans to judge the zeitgeist before a bunch of poncy foreigners.

[Disambiguator]

Sounds like they're saying that the "new man" is a homosexual. I'm shocked!

/sarc

[Lekker 1]

We here in America settled this argument last November.

I thought it was settled over there too in 1944.

[baltodog]

If some guy came into a bar in Wichita dressed like that, he'd get his ass beat in a minute.