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."
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...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.
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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).
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And the State Department magazine prattles about facials.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
I don't doubt that at all.
wow.. the hostility against metros..
can someone explain to me what's wrong with being metro? so what if i want to look nice, or if i can match clothes and tell you the difference between scarlet and vermillion, or if i have 8 different cleansers in my shower and i know how to use them? does it make a difference that i can also gut and butcher my own deer, or that i'm rebuilding a jeep myself?
...so what if i want to look nice, or if i can match clothes and tell you the difference between scarlet and vermillion, or if i have 8 different cleansers in my shower and i know how to use them?...
Sorry, you can't be saved.
...does it make a difference that i can also gut and butcher my own deer, or that i'm rebuilding a jeep myself?...
Not enough to save you ;)
no hope for me? i guess i'll just have to cling to philosophy that since women say "all the best men are either taken or gay" people thinking i'm gay must be a complement. :)
but i was thinking about it a couple weeks ago, that maybe i do need someone to save me when i got annoyed that i couldn't find a gunbelt that matched my new hunting boots.
(LAUGH! that's a joke! :)
I tell you good leather is hard to find.
Accessorizing can be such a challenge.
I guess I moisturize, I sweat when working hard and get wet in the shower when I come home filthy after working all day.
Dr. Bronner's peppermint. Straight no-nonsense soap, and concentrated enough that I only need to buy a liter bottle about every nine months. I wash with it, shave with it, and in a pinch can use it for laundry or dishes.
LOL! Love it!!
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