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Are Men The New Women? (Debbie Schlussel On Real Women Being Turned Off By Girly Men Alert)
Debbie Schlussel.com ^ | August 24, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 08/25/2005 1:05:52 AM PDT by goldstategop

Are Men the New Women?

By Debbie Schlussel

Earlier I wrote about women wanting to call football games--trying to be like men. But today, there are also two news items about men trying to be more like women:

* USA Today has a piece on men and waxing. Eeeuw.

Key Quote of the article: "Waxing makes up 35% to 40% of the business at Joq Day Spa for Men in Atlanta. 'Men are just becoming a lot more conscious of what their body looks like,' spa director Christopher Keever says."

First of all, there shouldn't be a "day spa" for men. Second, anything called the "Joq Day Spa for Men" is only for men whose favorite song is by "The Weathergirls." FYI, "jock" is spelled J-O-C-K, not with a Q. Anyplace that uses a Q, well, again, "The Weathergirls."

* The Detroit Free Press Business Page features this front-pager: "Generation Y Spending Trends: Manicured Men."

The print version of this article has a giant photo of someone named Guido Amato getting a facial. No-one named Guido Amato should be getting a facial. Incidentally, the "men's salon" (isn't "men's salon" an oxymoron?) where he gets his facials is called "Wise Guys." Amato admits he's been called a metrosexual. "When I hear that word, I just think, 'a guy that likes to take care of himself.'" No, Guido, that's NOT what it means.

Highlights, waxed brows, manicure, pedicure. These are the many women's products guys like Guido are now using. Sad.

It's not like there's a fine line between brute and metrosexual. There isn't. These emasculating grooming habits are definitely a turn-off. Unless you live in South Beach.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: debbieschlussel; emasculatedgeeks; flamers; girlymen; metrosexual; primped; sissies; vain
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To: R. Scott

no,absolutly not. A tailored suit yes, hair was NO.

(apparently too many kids were given the ken doll and not GI joe)


141 posted on 08/25/2005 10:18:31 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: durasell

Ah but you can have no paradise without that distinctly female offering that compells us to act stupid for women in the first place.


142 posted on 08/25/2005 10:18:33 AM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: Melas

You mean the cheerleaders at football games, right?


143 posted on 08/25/2005 10:20:58 AM PDT by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: kb2614
It's easy to have a "smooth shave" when you don't have steel wool for a beard (like me).

You got that right. I'm one of those twice to three times a week guys. I didn't even shave until I was 25 or so. It's the Indian blood in me, but I ain't complaining. The misses quite enjoys the very smooth face.

144 posted on 08/25/2005 10:24:20 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Pharmboy

Did this person not post from firday evening until Saturday evening?


145 posted on 08/25/2005 10:30:02 AM PDT by nickcarraway (I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
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To: DTogo

I will not throw my safety overboard and I will not join our insect nation.


146 posted on 08/25/2005 10:31:23 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: TheForceOfOne

The totally hillarious thing about your post is that Grizzly Adams was about the most leftist, pacifist, vegen, greenie show ever to darken a living room.


147 posted on 08/25/2005 10:32:01 AM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Starting in January, 1998 I was "Son of Liberty" (I found FR through Drudge, like a lot of people did when the Lewinsky story broke). I switched in 1999 to "Rand al'Thor", then I got angry at Robert Jordan for dragging his Wheel of Time series out beyond all reason. Since I had been reading P.G. Wodehouse, I switched again to "Mr. Jeeves" in 2001.

I remember you! Wondered where both of the other psuedonyms had gone (they were better posters than you are, though... *grin* j/k). Seriously, though, I've thought about bailing on the screenname, but I'd probably be banned as a troll the first thread I posted on afterwards. RHIP (Rank Hath Its Privileges)...

148 posted on 08/25/2005 10:35:13 AM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwæt! Lãr biþ mæst hord, soþlïce!)
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To: cricket
Or . . .live in mid-town Atlanta. . .

Ansley hometros.

149 posted on 08/25/2005 10:35:20 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: Logophile
It is not just a question of modesty (although there is that). Most people simply look better fully clothed. Although there are exceptions, the vast majority of Americans do not have bodies that look good half naked.

They look fine. More likely you've bought the Madison Avenue schtick and think that unnaturally skinny and toned people are what's attractive.

150 posted on 08/25/2005 10:35:50 AM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: trubluolyguy

Bah, I'm over 40, I know all about ear hair.


151 posted on 08/25/2005 10:37:10 AM PDT by Melas (The dumber the troll, the longer the thread)
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To: goldstategop

I don't get the whole metrosexual thing. All that primping, waxing and moisturizing, sounds like work. I've figured that I've earned every hair on my chest and every grey hair on my head.


152 posted on 08/25/2005 10:40:23 AM PDT by exile (Exile - Helen Thomas tried to lure me into her Gingerbread House.)
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To: sauropod

mark


153 posted on 08/25/2005 10:41:12 AM PDT by sauropod (Polite political action is about as useful as a miniskirt in a convent -- Claire Wolfe)
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To: goldstategop

Men should wax their backs and hairy arms. But most women like hairy chests, so long as it is well groomed. Bare chests look freakish on Western men.


154 posted on 08/25/2005 10:43:11 AM PDT by montag813
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To: ClearBlueSky

You are a riot :)


155 posted on 08/25/2005 10:44:27 AM PDT by Quinotto (On matters of style swim with the current,on matters of principle stand like a rock-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: goldstategop

Let's add a bit of a clue for the non-locals. Midtown Atlanta has been a mecca for the queer male set since at least the late-70s. Anyone with any knowledge of the city at all, knows that.


156 posted on 08/25/2005 10:49:10 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: montag813
Men should wax their backs and hairy arms.

That requires allowing strangers to touch us. We don't even like letting doctors do that. ;)

157 posted on 08/25/2005 10:49:30 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Feelings are not a tool of cognition, therefore they are not a criterion of morality." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: FreedomPoster

Joq Day Spa for Men is in Midtown.


158 posted on 08/25/2005 10:49:43 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Melas

True, but he had the look.

Probably could have picked a better example.


159 posted on 08/25/2005 10:50:06 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: goldstategop

waxing? Gross. Give me a man with a little chest hair.


160 posted on 08/25/2005 10:50:40 AM PDT by lawgirl (Sure I believe in intelligent design. The best accident we've come up with is Mary in grilled cheese)
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