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satyrne07 -> RE: Do Straight Men Get Pedicures? (6/10/2007 6:19:53 AM)
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Do straight women wear jeans?
All the dress and styling rules of what "makes" a man -- #1 among them often being a real man doesn't give a damn about such things -- are arbitrary conventions. Most of the conventions of what makes a lady have been overthrown. In the 19th C. a woman needed 'proof of necessity' and police permission to wear pants in Paris. That's Paris, not Afghanistan.
Of course I'm writing from L.A., so y'all can doubt whether we got any real men out here anyway. Unless of course you've ever eaten sushi, or like mexican food. In that case, your destiny is sealed. All trends eventually find there way out of here, and more and more men in L.A. are doing the mani-pedi-facial thing. Of course, I'm from the midwest originally and I admit first pedicure was a pretty strange experience. Go ahead give it a try.
And to put this in perspective...
Truth is, men have always been the one's to go in for elaborate grooming, make-up, hairdos ... think of the word "Chieftan", Celtic, Native American, African ... all dressed up and showing off.
All this real man stuff is silly anyway. Men do you shave? 'Nuf said, you might as well cut off your testicles. The only ones who know what a 'real man' is today, in the traditional sense are the Taliban, and they're idiots. They've got old skool sense of what makes a man (don't shave) and what makes a woman. No economy either. Hitler had a pretty good idea of gender roles and his advisors had to beg him to loosen up or lose the war. He didn't think women should work outside the home.
America kicked Nazi ass not only because we had brave boys, but because our boys were brave enough to let the girls put on jeans and build the bombers. So, who's afraid of pedicures?
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