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Depressed, repressed, objectified: are men the new women?
The Guardian ^ | August 3 2008 | Elizabeth Day

Posted on 08/03/2008 2:33:15 PM PDT by Soliton

In June, men discovered that their libidos are in freefall, prompting a 40 per cent increase in males seeking counselling for impotence problems. Their existential angst worsened in July, when British men discovered that they have the most unequal paternity rights in Europe. According to Nicola Brewer, chief executive of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, fathers in the UK are seen as 'not essential for parenting'. The same month saw the publication of a medical study that proved the quality of men's sperm declines to such an extent after they hit 45 that the chances of a partner's miscarriage are doubled.

It's not only their internal biology; men are also succumbing to the traditionally female preoccupation of looking good on the outside, too. Sales of male beauty products have leapt 30 per cent over the past decade. Almost 20 per cent more men are having plastic surgery than ever before while, last year, researchers from Harvard discovered that a quarter of anorexia and bulimia sufferers is male. During the fashion shows, male models had their own equivalent of the size-zero debate. 'Male models look chicken-chested, hollow-cheeked and undernourished' noted the New York Times.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: males; psychology
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You guys are disgusting! :0)
1 posted on 08/03/2008 2:33:16 PM PDT by Soliton
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To: Soliton

British culture in general has been emasculated.


2 posted on 08/03/2008 2:38:54 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: Soliton
Sales of male beauty products have leapt 30 per cent over the past decade.


3 posted on 08/03/2008 2:40:00 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: TASMANIANRED

And the Americans aren’t very far behind.


4 posted on 08/03/2008 2:40:28 PM PDT by Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: TASMANIANRED

I went to an American High School in London in the 70’s. It is too true. The former rulers of the world are the world’s doormat.


5 posted on 08/03/2008 2:42:04 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Soliton
I'm not sure I fully understand the point of this article. I wonder if men...and women, for that matter...stopped watching TV and stopped reading nonsense papers and magazines that suggested how things are supposed to be in modern life...if we would really have a crisis of identity. Wouldn't men...and women, for that matter...simply live and breathe as we have evolved, lo, these past 300,000 years?

I s'pect that, over the long run, men will live and behave as women want them to live and behave. I also s'pect that the reverse is equally true. Everything else is ephemeral.

6 posted on 08/03/2008 2:44:39 PM PDT by stevem
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To: Soliton

There’s an upside to almost anything - more feebs means more women for the real men.


7 posted on 08/03/2008 2:45:13 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: TASMANIANRED

Just wait till the next big World War. A war where the savage enemy is at the gates and all westerners stand to be enslaved. Then, when women need men to be men, things will change.


8 posted on 08/03/2008 2:45:32 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: stevem

You have snatched the pebble from my hand Grasshopper. Go in pieces to love and serve the lard.


9 posted on 08/03/2008 2:46:39 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: TheWasteLand
There’s an upside to almost anything - more feebs means more women for the real men.

Unfortunately, our most populous coutries are killing females in the womb. Our gay grandsons will pay for it.

10 posted on 08/03/2008 2:48:34 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Just wait till the next big World War.

If it's inevitable, I hope it comes soon. Otherwise I'll have to be shooting from my position in the rocking chair on the porch. (And will)

11 posted on 08/03/2008 2:50:46 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama supporters. Letting the little void do the thinking for the big void.)
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To: Soliton
Unfortunately, our most populous coutries are killing females in the womb.

Those two most populous countries are right beside each other - maybe they'll wipe each other out?

12 posted on 08/03/2008 2:52:08 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: TheWasteLand
Those two most populous countries are right beside each other - maybe they'll wipe each other out?

No chance. Invest in internet porn.

13 posted on 08/03/2008 2:53:41 PM PDT by Soliton (> 100)
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To: Polybius
The only beauty products I use are a sharp razor, a bar of pine soap, and a bottle of Clubman. Everything else is for dykes and fairies.


14 posted on 08/03/2008 2:57:50 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Barak Obama is as inept as a bear cub with his dink.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade
Just wait till the next big World War. A war where the savage enemy is at the gates and all westerners stand to be enslaved. Then, when women need men to be men, things will change.

It might already be too late in Britain where some men cry like women and some women fight like men.


Captive sailor Arthur Batchelor, who was dubbed Mr Bean by the Iranians, has apologised for selling his hostage ordeal story and 'letting the Navy down'. .... Many serving soldiers were unimpressed by Arthur Batchelor's tears after being called Mr Bean


The furore comes on the day the bodies of Private Eleanor Dlugosz and Second Lieutenant Joanna Dyer were repatriated

15 posted on 08/03/2008 2:59:01 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: TheWasteLand

Quite the opposite actually, in England (and the rest of the Western world) the Women seem to be becoming more masculine at a much faster rate than Men are feminising.


16 posted on 08/03/2008 3:03:37 PM PDT by Hatter6
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To: Viking2002

A sharp razor? I use a rusty meat cleaver to shave, or a blow-torch if I want to look smart.


17 posted on 08/03/2008 3:06:40 PM PDT by Hatter6
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To: Soliton

I wonder if men realize that sexy/attractive is determined by so much more than how they look.


18 posted on 08/03/2008 3:08:29 PM PDT by Stephanie32
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To: Soliton

From Bogart to Bowie...


19 posted on 08/03/2008 3:09:40 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: Viking2002

I started shaving in the Army, at the age of 17.

Back then, and still today, I dry shave.

Hurts like crazy (not that I mind) and toughens my skin.

Crazy? You be the judge. 8^)


20 posted on 08/03/2008 3:10:31 PM PDT by airborne (Don't hate me because I'm white!)
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