I realize much of the thread is in good fun, but I don't think many here realize that by these retrosexual standards that our Founders would be considered "metros."
Do you think men of intellect and refinement(as many of them were) can not be real men? Sure, they hunted but that was a different time. I eat red meat, but I don't hunt.
Many of those men wore POWDERED WIGS for godssakes. They cared very much about style and class and culture.
To me, one can be refined and educated AND noble and manly. What is it with modern American culture that equates pickup trucks and plaid shirts to being a man? James Madison and others would not fit this bill and would consider the lot of "retrosexuals' uncouth. :)
I realize much of the thread is in good fun, but I don't think many here realize that by these retrosexual standards that our Founders would be considered "metros." Do you think men of intellect and refinement(as many of them were) can not be real men? Sure, they hunted but that was a different time. I eat red meat, but I don't hunt.
Many of those men wore POWDERED WIGS for godssakes. They cared very much about style and class and culture.
To me, one can be refined and educated AND noble and manly. What is it with modern American culture that equates pickup trucks and plaid shirts to being a man? James Madison and others would not fit this bill and would consider the lot of "retrosexuals' uncouth. :)
Well said.