They prefer the soft male: metrosexual, homosexual.
That's the stupidest thing I've read in a long time (excepting stuff at DU). Where are all these women?? I have yet to see any. There are PLENTY of women out there who want decent men that are self-sufficient, strong, focused individuals. True, there are women who want softies they can push around, but there have always been women like that. I would only be guessing, but it seems to me that the percentage isn't much greater than it was.
The reality is that, for all the changes that have undertaken these past 60 years, the basics of one-on-one relationships between men and women haven't changed nearly so much.
I know more than a few touchy-feely pinko females, and only a small percentage of them seem to have any interest in the Alan Alda type. Now, they might not be so much into the John Wayne type, either...somewhere in between, perhaps a James Stewart, or someone fairly close. You gonna call Jimmy Stewart a metrosexual?
Snidely