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".)
Feminists wanted emasculated men...deal with it ladies, LOL!
Precisely it, if you live in a hot climate like South Florida you get to see a lot of bare backs and, at least to my taste, I am not enticed by Chewbacca. If waxing is too emasculating or painful they should do the world a favor and use an electric shaver instead.
Thank goodness Mrs. Chandler likes her man a bit rugged. A couple years ago I shaved my beard and she refused to kiss me until it grew back!
I can't figure out why Bo Flex can't find a man with a little hair on his chest to advertise their product. I'm sorry to you waxers but bare chested men appear to like the bo flex power rod a bit too much.
Are You One of the 0.00000000001% Who Likes Women Calling Football Games?
By Debbie Schlussel
If so, you can watch Beth Mowins call games for the Western Athletic Conference on the hardly watched ESPNU (which will become even less watched as a result).
But for the rest of us--who don't like in-your-face feminism inserted into every crevice of life, watch real football on many other choices elsewhere. Even the mundane John Madden is better than this.
In 2003, I debated a CNN sports reporteratrix and a militant female sports radio host on CNN's "Talk Back Live" about this very issue. They were all upset that John Madden is fat and old and he had a big-time deal with ABC to call "Monday Night Football" games. But that's the nature of the marketplace. The majority of football fans are men, and they don't want to hear Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, or even Beth Mowins annoying them during their one escape from reality. They'd turn it off faster than they did Dennis Miller. And Beth Mowins never coached an NFL team.
The first woman to call college football, Pam Ward on ESPN2, is unliked, and even less watched. Mowins will be more of the same. Keep them on WNBA games where their feminist fans will have to endure it. Keep football games for the real professionals. In the case of football games, that means MEN.
Yeah - let's hear it for a guy's sport!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
The razor commercials always crack me up. They get these obviously baby faced men, you know the ones that only have to shave twice a week. It's easy to have a "smooth shave" when you don't have steel wool for a beard (like me).
-Dan
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Interesting point of view :) Luckily, most men I know do not define their "maleness" by the amount of body hair they have or they shave off. But to each his/her own, everyone has their own idea when it comes to the definition of a "real man". As I stated before, I just don't like hairy backs(and by that I mean grizzly bear fur). I am not the rule nor the exception. :)
in the courtroom they are the most entertaining to grind up with cross examination if a witness or to run circles around if they are opposing counsel.
Being a well dressed and proper gentlemen should never be confussed with being ponced dandy boy.
I actually don't like beards. It feels like someone stapled steel wool on my face. I have to shave EVERY day to keep the 5 o'clock shadow under control (it's really a 3 o'clock shadow). I do have a mustache though ;-)
homosexuals are the new women.
Uh, I liked the old women. They worked just fine.
-Dan
Shave "EVERY" day? ah, that is considered normal.... Unless you're a chick, some have to shave every OTHER day...
I've considered shaving the 'stache, but I think it's just time to gracefully accept "the mark of experience".
*sigh*
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