What is happening to men?

Question

What happened to our young men?

Sitting in the stylists chair getting femmy foiled gold highlights.

Flouncing about our cities in flip-flops (basically renders the gym muscles helpless in the event of an emergency).

Shaving and trimming what makes them men. Is that not totally metrosexual overgrooming?? MEN, for cry-yi... trimming!

I just don't get it.

A little help here? What happened?

Is it the hormones in the food?

What?

Answer 1

Men tend to dress and act the way that women want us to. Since they have what we want, we tend to be accommodating to them.

Answer 2

Right now men are as they've always been--resourceful, resilient and unstoppable.  What you've been describing are not men, properly speaking, but rather shemales, wee-males, and Sensitive Guys.  Those poor eunuchoid creatures have always been among us.  Pity them.

Answer 3

I am lucky enough to be dating a hairy chested, big muscled, plaid wearing, hot sauce drinking, lumber jack of a man who does manual labour for a living and has never dyed his hair.

It's nice making love to a real man.

The Alphabet of Manliness - Maddox ...read it and be enlightened and inspired

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/06...

http://www.amazon.ca/Alphabet-Manliness-...

Answer 4

Gender behaviors are not natural.  They are not universal.  They vary from culture to culture.  What is "masculine" in one culture is not necessarily "masculine" in another culture.  Males have been oppressed by masters and rulers for ten thousand years and forced to be obedient sheep, slaves and warriors.  Men rose in brotherhoods, all dressed alike to "bond" and feel "unified".  They have powerful acculturated "flocking" behaviors and ego-fragilities and fears of being attacked by other men for being slightly "different" from the others.  Humanism, the rise above Master / Slave paradigms and moralities is freeing men from some of those acculturations, especially those men who read a wide-variety of mind-broadening literature rather than listen to mind-narrowing "traditional" male ego-stroking Rush Lumbaugh types and who travel a little and see how cultural expectations vary around the world among humanity.  The more thusly enlightened men become, the more likely they aren't such sheep as to feel their "masculinity" or manhood is determinined by their style of shoe or flip-flop.

Answer 5

I don't know - who defined what "man" means? John Wayne?

In some cultures, men wear makeup and fancy clothes and prance around to attract women, who dress plainly.

In the animal world, the males are definitely the showy ones, not the mostly plain-looking females.

Men should dress the way they feel comfortable, whether it's metrosexual or jeans and a t-shirt.

Answer 6

...hormones in the food?

nope, it's the women.. the girl effect, remember?

Answer 7

What I want to know is why this appears to threaten and frighten the knuckle-dragging type of male so much. You can smell the male hysteria from here.

Answer 8

It is in the food. Our manly men are turning into unmanly men.

Answer 9

They are reacting to what the feminization of our culture has taught them.  They have been taught that everything masculine is bad, everything feminine is good.  Be a man like there Dad, then you are a target; misogynist, sexist, rapist, etc.

Keep in mind 90% of teachers are women.

Masculine has been viewed as evil by feminist, and they have been very vocal about it for over 20 years, thus you get girly men.

Answer 10

I too, find that disgusting (take that, Zac Efron!).  With that said, I think a lot of men mistake basic self-grooming with being "metrosexual".  Smelling like onions is NOT manly.  Looking like you've been playing in flour is NOT manly (Vaseline, anyone?).  I believe that a man should be properly shaven, wash on a daily basis (or at least when you're around me), and wash and iron your clothes.  I don't like men coloring their hair, waxing their eyebrows (unless you have a unibrow), wearing "guyliner" or polishing their nails.  It's gross.

Answer 11

Nothing wrong with a man who takes care of himself. Why does it matter? Doesn't make him less of a man. It makes him a well-groomed man.

Answer 12

They are secure in their masculinity and comfortable with themselves.  What's bad about that?

Answer 13

Gee whiz. I know! Forget about the wars, the famine, the natural disaters, the new diseases, this is what we should really be worried about: Men that are finally getting rights to shape and define their own sexuality and identity! Lets fight to push ourselves back a few centuries and take this right away! Men were born to be one thing : Bruding muscles, that f**t and make stupid comments about b*****s! Yep. Sounds good.

Answer 14

More importantly . . . who really cares?

EDIT: Geez, why the thumbs-down? It seems to me that people here are too interested in molding men to care about what THEY want.

Answer 15

Im not sure but I hope its not contagious. The first time my husband dons flip flops and highlights we are gonna need to have a serious talk.

Maybe if I send him out to do Man things enough it will act like a vaccine against this.

Good hygiene and upkeep is one thing, but no man should spend more time and money on looks and pampering then me.

Answer 16

We had it pounded up our a******s that this is what women want from us now...but you don't.  There was a whole movement designed to cause it you know.

Answer 17

What is happening to them?  Probably moms who dressed them up or feminized them.  Or maybe fathers who were absent or who were doormats because they too bought into the modern version of feminization.

Answer 18

I guess this shows how much sexism there is against men as well as women when it come to gender roles.