Too real to be fiction...
Indeed. If he didn't exist, we'd have to invent him...
Would Men Wear Make-Up If It Was Socially Acceptable? Of course they would! Men are pack animals. If one of them does something, they all think they have to do the same. As soon as professional athletes began wearing it, average guys would start buying it. And pretty soon they'd all think it was as normal as shaving.
Men used to pad their calves to show off their legs. They used to wear powdered wigs. More recently, they all had to wear skintight Levis and shirts open to show gold chains. All of these things were hideous, but the men all fell in line. I don't think men are any more or less vain than women.
Ohmigawd. I think I just plotzed at the vision of Setanta in skin tight levis and gold chains.
Sorry, never understood the theory of makeup. When you look at a painted face male or female, don't you know it's paint on a face? Can't kiss lipstick without: a) smudging it and b) getting it on you. Eye shadow looks heavy and uncomfortable. Rouged cheeks remind me of the dead: (My, my, my, don't he look lifelike?)...
What is it? Do we want to look good because we want everyone to sexually desire us? How full a calendar can you stand? You got a true love? What's the sense of frustrating others? You WANT a true love? Don't you want them to see you and not an illusion?
I don't know... I must have been dropped off from another world. I see through the illusion... can't you? Or is it just surrender to wishful thinking?
I've always thought the same way Beedle, life is all about aesthetics when it comes to women.
Quote:Would Men Wear Make-Up If It Was Socially Acceptable? Of course they would! Men are pack animals. If one of them does something, they all think they have to do the same. As soon as professional athletes began wearing it, average guys would start buying it. And pretty soon they'd all think it was as normal as shaving.
It's true. This is exactly what's got me driving around in my Hummer with some porn on the DVD, wearing my replica jersey and thousand-dollar track suit.
patiodog wrote:It's true. This is exactly what's got me driving around in my Hummer with some porn on the DVD, wearing my replica jersey and thousand-dollar track suit.
You forgot to mention your posse/ bodyguards. (They took up an awful lot of room at the table... couldn't they have just stood in the corner or something?)
Naw. If they stand to long their varicose veins start to bother 'em. And Angus is prone to gout, 'specially when he's drinking 40s and milk of magnesia.
I guess. Angus kept sneaking my fries, though, which I didn't really appreciate. Or maybe that was Cletus?
Gunther, I think. I mean, Bone. He wants to be called Bone. Something to do with his arthritis, I think.
here's another question: Would more guys shave there legs and/or armpits if it were socially exceptable?
I shaved my legs in high school, at least as far as the knee. But that was because of previously injured ankles, and the necessity to tape them up before competing in sports. Shaving your legs is far preferrable to ripping out the hair when removing the tape.
kerver wrote:here's another question: Would more guys shave there legs and/or armpits if it were socially exceptable?
This seems to be another one of those fad sorta things that's come in the last few years. There are always some with any fad but the majority don't seem to go with any of them. (which, I guess, is what makes it a fad to begin with..)
Quote:I shaved my legs in high school, at least as far as the knee. But that was because of previously injured ankles, and the necessity to tape them up before competing in sports. Shaving your legs is far preferrable to ripping out the hair when removing the tape.
They've since devised a gentle adhesive spray, over which you wrap a foam layer, over which you apply actual tape. Not only does it spare your ankle hair, but it's supposed to enable supportive taping with less constriction of circulation.
I don't walk anywhere now, if i am not obliged . . . forget running . . .
The idea that guys would wear make-up if it were acceptable presumes that all guys do the same thing at the same time. But there already are beauty products out there for men, and we don't all use Rogaine, hair coloring or mousse. Or dress particularly fashionably. So why should this new make-up be different? Some guys will use it and others won't. No big deal either way.
Same for women, of course, re pack behavior.
