Posted on 11/29/2005 2:57:30 PM PST by jjm2111
"Real Men Moisturize." So begins an article on "Sharp Dressed Men" that appeared in a State Department funded magazine aimed at youth in the Arab world. The magazine, called "Hi" is published in Arabic and English....
The article continues: "In fact, some of them, like Michael Gustman, a 25-year-old public relations account executive from Boca Raton, Fla., even have separate moisturizers for the face and body. Facial pores can clog with too heavy a salve, it seems. Gustman exfoliates. He gets pedicures. He gets facials. He accessorizes. ... In a word, he's a metrosexual."
[snip]
...Is this what the U.S. State Department thinks America is really like? How many men, outside a tiny subset in major cities, are the primping, feminized "metrosexuals" the article lauds? ... You cannot enhance understanding between one people and another by presenting a false version of one side.
...Does the State Department believe that Arab males — some of whom do not permit their wives and daughters to go out in public without a male family member as escort, others of whom think nothing of killing a daughter who dishonors the family by fraternizing with a boy — are going to be impressed with a vision of America in which males are feminized "exfoliated," smooth-skinned eunuchs?
The State Department is apparently so delighted with the Hi Magazine approach that they are translating it for use around the world.
[snip]
In this "everybody's world," particularly the parts at which Hi Magazine is pitched, there are troubles that seem a bit remote from hair and nail care. In Iraq, half the population, according to one poll, believes that a man has a right to beat his wife if she disobeys him (and the Koran gives this sanction).
[snip]
And the State Department magazine prattles about facials.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
-In a word, he's a metrosexual.-
In my words, he's a woman.
Ok. Either I take that back or I redefine moisturize. Putting something on your chapped face or hands or lips doesn't seem like my idea of "moisturize". All the men in my family including cops and construction workers did that. Cornhuskers lotion was one product.
When I think of "moisturize" I think of the sitcom wife with white cream all over her face getting ready for bed!
I've been "exfoliating" most of the afternoon. Ran out of gas for the saw, so now I'll burn some branches and "moisturize" with a few beers after dinner.
"I don't think so" ping. LOL.
I don't even know what exfoliating is. Nor do I care.
I do, however, have extremely dry skin and in dry climates (like where I live), if I don't slap some lotion on my face from time to time, I look like I've been lost in the desert for a month... my face gets all flaky.
So am I metro?
[shudder]
Yes.... but not for the sole purpose of "exfoliating". It's a "result" of shaving. :)
"Exfoliating"? Or "Defoliating"? LOL
Nice to see that the State Dept is promoting (probably intentionally) an image of the American male as some pedicured flamer. The State Dept needs to be purged.
But you're talking "practical".....not a ritual process. Worry only....if you spend 45 minutes getting ready for bed because you have to "do the face". *chuckle*
There's a difference?
The foliage is gone.
Where's muh beer?
Need to moisturize.
I don't know what "exfoliate" means. It is not even a word recognised by the Australian Oxford Dictionary
You're a MAN! I'll bet you even watched the "Red-Green Show". :) Duct tape in the glove compartment? lol
Fixed.
Exfoliate = The purposeful sloughing of dead skin cells ...with a product not of your making or recognizable by the normal male species. (from the dictionary of Lainey)
So you hang out with a bunch of ugly scratchy women? I'm a woman. If the women you know are half way smooth then they are moiturizing. Otherwise they would look like your buddies at the bar. And we are leading full lives with happy husbands.
Moisturizing is a good idea for anyone -- male or female -- whose skin is too dry. Soap and hot water are unnatural and tend to dry out skin, so moisturizer is a good option for those of us who don't want to give up soap and hot water. Not sure that soap and hot water are very popular among the target audience of that State Department rag, though, so they probably don't get the need for any moisturizer, much less obsessing over different types for different parts of the body.
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