[wideawake]

I know plenty of Italian guys whose idea of fashion is a NY Giants jersey, a pair of jeans and hightops - and they can still cook a masterful meal and love opera.

What's disgusting about the sissies in this article is not that they sometimes "accessorize" themselves with culture, but that they have a narcissistic obsession with personal grooming.

I bathe every day with only soap and water. I buy my button-down oxfords off the rack. I get a $10 haircut (quite an achievement in the NJ/NY/CT Tristate area). I clip my own nails with a $2 clipper from RiteAid. I would rather go target shooting than shopping. You'll find me at my Weber grill on a Saturday night instead of a downtown dance club.

I also love Mozart and Bach, I like to read Aquinas (in Latin) and Shakespeare in my spare time, I can make real gravy, and I can tell a good wine from a bad one.

I have more "culture" in my little finger than all these candyasses combined, and I don't have to primp myself like a faggot to have it.

[radiohead]

Oh mama! You sound like my kinda man! If women would get serious about what they really need from a guy, it would be someone like you, not some 'candyassed' metrosexual.

All of this attention to the superficial is very off-putting, be it on the part of males or females.