Friday, February 08, 2008
The latest "decline of the West" news
Goddamn, if this is not the most disheartening thing you've read in a month of Sundays, what is?
According to a recent survey, men now spend 30 per cent more time on looking good than they did five years ago.
The study published in the UK found the average man takes 30 minutes to get ready for anight out.
The most commonly cited reason for taking so long was the desire to "look good" - and it seems Aussie men are displaying similar tendencies.
You have to figure that women are responsible for this reprehensible over-grooming among males of the species. After all, we respond to incentives. If women signal that they like emphatically groomed males, emphatically groomed males is what they will get. The question is whether this is wise of women. Ladies, are you really attracted to men who "spend 30 percent more time on looking good"? Have you considered the long term consequences of that policy?
Somehow, I doubt it.
10 Comments:
By 
Assistant Village Idiot, at
Fri Feb 08, 06:53:00 PM:
It would take me longer than 30 minutes to look good. So I don't bother.
By 
, at
Fri Feb 08, 09:42:00 PM:
Goddamn, if this is not the most disheartening thing you've read in a month of Sundays, what is?
This is.
By , at
Fri Feb 08, 10:02:00 PM:
I would wager that your Dad was not a metrosexual. Any dude who needs 30 minutes to get ready, barring a physical handicap, or offer in the middle of getting ready to glaze the ham, is a candy ass.
By Steve M. Galbraith, at
Fri Feb 08, 10:22:00 PM:
Geez, I'm getting closer to that 30 minutes as I get older.
Shave, trim excess hair (nose, ears), shower, towel off, dry the hair, brush the teeth, floss, then dress.
Yeap, about 15-22 minutes if I don't have to search for matching socks.
Richard Simmons, here I come.
By TigerHawk, at
Fri Feb 08, 10:29:00 PM:
space, you make a good point there.
By , at
Fri Feb 08, 10:30:00 PM:
"Ladies, are you really attracted to men who "spend 30 percent more time on looking good"?
Trophy husbands?
JC
By Miss Ladybug, at
Fri Feb 08, 10:49:00 PM:
I don't expect a guy to look like some GQ model. But, I would like him to be clean-shaven (I generally have a thing about facial hair, but there are exceptions), clean-smelling and not looking like he just rolled out of bed. Jeans and a button-down or polo shirt, maybe a pair of boots (I'm in Texas, y'all). That shouldn't take too long.
By , at
Sat Feb 09, 02:45:00 AM:
Erm. Do men actually want women who spend godknowshowlong on looking good? Do men like emphatically groomed females?
And if not, then why assume women are responsible for this trend among men, any more than men are responsible for the same trend among women?
By , at
Sat Feb 09, 09:26:00 AM:
Hey ! some of us are just so good looking, ask me,I'll tell you, that we don't need much time. But, seriously, a half hour to primp !? Does that include the time it takes to install a backbone and remove the cojones to give to the girlfriend ? Oh, and "metrosexual" is a gay man in denial.nttawwt though....
By , at
Sat Feb 09, 11:06:00 AM:
Men bitch all the time about how long women take to get ready to go out and do anything. It annoys us. So blaming us for that behavior that we dislike requires a certain mental agility that I don't have. And despite what women may tell themselves, we don't really care whether their shoes match their belt or purse.
I think that women just try to out-do one another. I live with my wife; I see her when she rolls out of bed with tangled hair, my old college shirt, and morning breath. Dressing up when we go out is certainly not for *my* benefit. The bare minimum of civil appearance is all I (most of us, in fact) demand.
It's a contest to out-pretty the next woman.
Ever see that sandwich commercial (Quiznos, I think) where there's an average house-wifish woman on a bench eating a sandwich next to a smoking hot supermodel type woman? The model looks over at the other woman, thinks 'that should be me,' looks forward, then back at her again and says, "I hate you." The house wife looks amazed and smiles, "Wow, really?!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILGY9fOU8M
I think that sums this up.
