It's about time- the return of men.

[imdjh]

http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/08/05/women-prefer-men-with-hairy-chests-beer-belly-to-metrosexuals-22066/


LONDON - Blokes with beer bellies can relax. A new survey has revealed that women find manly men complete with hairy chests, messy hair and a beer belly attractive and prefer them to so-called metrosexuals.

OK so the study was of women, but it's encouraging that these waxed and tweezed refugees from Ralph Lauren's wet dream are going out of style. Let's hope the pendulum doesn't swing too far the other way; looking a bit grungy is one thing, actually being grungy is another.

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Yeah, thank god. The poor widdle menz were having to groom themselves.

Gee, wonder when we ladies are going to get a break.

[imdjh]

2. I don't think women have to shave much after 70 or 80. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. Hey, I'm not going to wax my chest for anybody.

I am what I am, and that's all what I yam.

[endarkenment]

5. I've never been enamored of the pubescent look in women.

Middle aged women looking like 12 year old girls is odd.
I guess the old hippy in me just won't go away.
Hair is fine.

[imdjh]

6. Speaking of which , did you know they really have changed the dress sizing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size


To show how sizing has changed over time, size-eight dresses from the 1980s, 1990s, and today were compared. The waist circumference on a 1984 dress was 25 inches (64 cm). On the 1995 dress, it was 26 inches (66 cm). And on a 2004 dress, it was 27-1/2 (70 cm), a two-and-a-half inch (6.5 cm) difference from 1984 to 2004.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. so women SAY because no one wants to come off as superficial

however all my gorgeous metrosexual men friends get laid more. :shrug:

[imdjh]

7. What is the difference between 1990's metrosexual and 1970's homosexual?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. why should straight men not have to preen, like the rest of us?

[imdjh]

9. Because vanity is not sexy on men.

The trick is to be vain without looking vain.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. it may not be to you, but it is to me. men should make an effort

and look like a well developed product :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. So that's why you rejected me.

Well, that and the other thing. :P

[Toasterlad]

13. I Whole-Heartedly Agree, But I Draw the Line at "Products".

I like a man to be clean, and to take care of himself, but I'm not impressed with makeup or hair gel or $300 shirts. I'm a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

14. yes, i agree with you. i too think there is a line between making an effort

and self obsessed vanity

[imdjh]

20. $300 shirt I can understand, sort of, especially if it has Gregg Avedon in it.

I don't personally think I have seen a shirt worth $300, but as someone with feet that require somewhere between a 12 and a 14 I do know that sometimes the perfect item isn't the most inexpensive item. In fact, the ONLY thing I have ever bought at Nordstrom is shoes, because they actually have good shoes in large and wide.

For those who have been buried alive, this is Gregg Avdeon (former International Male model):

[sui generis]

17. I agree

I just hate the perfectly shaped and waxed guybrows and perfectly coiffed dude hair - don't mind a little fuzz and muss and "interesting" look, but studied messy is a lot different than been-that-way-since-birth.

Every time I sit in the hair chair my groom-gal comes after my eyebrows with a hedge trimmer and I have to make the sign of the cross and say back off sista these things have nerve endings.

On the other hand I insist on having no nostril hair showing, and I do shave my ears to avoid being asked why I'm wearing ear muffs in the middle of summer. :P

[imdjh]

19. OK then...

"and I do shave my ears to avoid being asked why I'm wearing ear muffs in the middle of summer"

I know this is perfectly normal, even if I myself don't have hairy ears, but the mental picture was comical.

[Fearless]

15. Contrarily I find men who take good care of themselves to be extraordinarily attractive...

And those who don't not in the least. For me it has a lot to do with self respect and self confidence. If someone doesn't feel that they are worth good care then why should I think they're worth me? IMHO of course.

[Fearless]

12. Funny that I read the EXACT opposite yesterday... odd...

[sui generis]

16. Imagine if this article substituted women for men

:rofl:

LONDON - Wenches with beer bellies can relax. A new survey has revealed that men find manly women complete with hairy chests, messy hair and a beer belly attractive and prefer them to so-called hetrosexuals.

I don't like any dude that's overprocessed - but the opposite of overprocessed is not fly-buzzin' bed head smells-like-ass slept in jeans. Basic hygiene and health are always attractive compared to their opposite, and a flabby beer belly multi-zipcode ass get out of breath on the way to the refrigerator does not appeal to this alpha-gay man.

[imdjh]

18. Well extremes are the issue aren't they?

Are you also turned off by waxed and shaved veiny muscular circuit party queens who despite their "masc ub2" have more skin care products than a burn victim and seem especially given to white furniture?

[sui generis]

23. actually quite.

:P

My avatar is a chiaroscuro oil painting of my partner of 11 years though, but while he shaves when the mood moves him, he doesn't wax, and we both HATE white furniture AND circuit parties.

Hygiene, healthy fitness, and a modicum of grooming - that's what's attractive.

[imdjh]

25. It's hard to see such a small photo, but looks handsome.

My major objection is to over grooming. It's girlie and make a guy look like a hairdresser or a massage therapist. Yes, come occupations benefit from looking like a 1980's hairdresser- but your average person looks best after he has taken a morning shower, and then jumped in the Gulf Of Mexico and dried off without a mirror.

[sui generis]

26. mmmm gulf hair

Yep - he's half Slovak half Bavarian All American, dark hair, olive skin 6'2", former battleship Navy LtCdr, @%#$@#$ 30" waist, sweet sweet guy - found him on a dairy farm in Washington state after he left the Navy. After all these years of laughter, joy, and the occasional shared tears, I'm not throwing him back. We've argued politics and healthcare, hairstyles and world events, mostly on the same side, but we've never had a fight. I still lurvs my baby :loveya: and he posts here too but I'm not sayin' who. ;)

[QC]

21. Does this mean that the regrettable chest-shaving fad is passing? n/t

[imdjh]

22. Probably not for a variety of reasons.

The chest shaving thing was originally done by gay men as an old Hollywood trick for looking younger. Then it got new life as average people started hitting the gyms, because pro-bodybuilders did it both as the Hollywood trick for looking younger but also because it allegedly shows off definition better. But as long as shaving off chest hair is easier than dying or plucking out the gray, then I would think that it will live on.

Then tattoos broke free of their social and sometimes legal banishment, and as long as people are spending big bucks on body art, they probably aren't going to let the chest hair cover it up.

As usual, a good trim is a good thing, waxed or wild are the extremes.

Now what really needs to stop are the alien or prepubescent pubic zones.

[LeftHander]

24. Girls can have them....

I'll take the cute guys....

lol