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.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Or . . .live in mid-town Atlanta. . .
At least she doesn't need a cheeseburger or two....
You want I should put a shaving bowl on 'is head?....:))
Adam Ant . Hahaha !
LOL!
And don't forget that in urban areas there is tough competition for the "high end" women. The guys who indulge in this feel that it gives them an edge.
Now, Algore of course, was a different horse altogether. Unlike GW; he never found his masculine core. . .
. . .remember those eyebrows. . .the waxy/wite face; the lips; altogether a look of a Queen, from the man who wanted to be King.
And a horrifying look it was.
"These emasculating grooming habits are definitely a turn-off. Unless you live in South Beach."
not to their targeted sexual partners, and it ain't women
I've had a beard most of the last 8 years, and shaved it off a couple of weeks ago out of boredom. I think I'm going to keep it off for awhile. Unless he's on the swim team, the face is the only part a man should shave, it's the only part I will.
All I can visualize of Algore was the -blush-...;))
Will check out your travelogue - you have surely come a long way and have miles to go ;*)
Do think of Rush as a missionary of sorts; calling people to the 'truth'; often wonder, just how many lives he has touched/changed for the better. Tholugh already a 'repub'. . .he helped me 'solidify' a political philosophy. . .a separating of 'wheat from chafe', so to speak.
Sorry if I'm uninformed. My parents tried to raise me as a Catholic, but it didn't quite take. Don't worry, I believe in the groundwork and principles, I just haven't found faith yet to believe in the miracles.
No offense, but what does term observant Jew mean?
Not commenting, but I really don't know what that means.
I guess I could look it up on Wikipedia...
(I am trying to control some nausea here. . .) A piece of work. . .Algore was; and no doubt, is still.
Is Debbie going through some kind of mid-life crisis..her last couple of columns have been less that edifying...
I prefer to think that I'm just wearing a fur sweater!
Mark
Thanks... need to get the UK, Paris, Kalmar summer trips done before we go to St. Petersburg next weekend.... so much writing..so little time...
:P
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"Roses"?!?
LOL!
You are *too* kind.
The poor guy always looked Mimi Bobeck did his makeup....:))
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