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Why pretty boys have ousted beefcakes as Hollywood hottest heartthrobs: Tom Holland and Harry Styles are the poster boys for 'non-toxic masculinity' who appeal to Gen Z with 'enlightened' views
U.K. Daily Mail ^ | 1/4/2021 | Claire Toureille

Posted on 01/04/2022 8:52:20 AM PST by simpson96

Ten years ago, baby-faced men were passed over in Hollywood for rugged looking stars with more traditionally masculine looks.

But today more feminine-looking actors with delicate features, shorter stature and symmetrical faces are more in demand because they appear to younger viewers, experts claim.

Gen Z audiences are drawn to celebrities like Tom Holland, Timothée Chalamet and Harry Styles who embody a 'brand of enlightened non-toxic masculinity', according to beauty expert Laura Kay.

Their symmetrical, heart-shaped faces also make them more photogenic and therefore more popular on Instagram, which has become a key part in the Hollywood marketing machine.

These non-traditional leading men also benefit because younger generations are more tolerant of things which would have seen as 'abnormal' in the past, such as height differences or attitudes to gender, says dating and relationship expert Alex Mellor-Brook.

Tom Holland, 25, who is dating his co-star Zendaya, also 25, for example, is 5ft 8in, shorter than one might expect for a Hollywood A-lister, while Harry Styles, 27, proudly steps out in feminine clothing and has released a range of nail polishes.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: hollywood; men; metrosexual
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To: simpson96
Most actors are about 5' 10" (if you can believe the internet, Al Pacino is 5' 6"). 5' 8" is no big deal.

This has been the trend in Asia for some time. To think that it wasn't coming here, or wasn't already here, was naive.

21 posted on 01/04/2022 9:01:46 AM PST by x
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To: simpson96

“Harry Styles”

Never heard of her.


22 posted on 01/04/2022 9:02:17 AM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Cage the libs.. now. )
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To: ryderann

That’s a GUY? OMG. I, too, would laugh. Add a man bun to the mix, and I’m hysterical.


23 posted on 01/04/2022 9:03:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: simpson96

24 posted on 01/04/2022 9:04:16 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: simpson96

Looks like we are gonna need a war to MAN UP!-)


25 posted on 01/04/2022 9:04:50 AM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: beef

Yep. None of them could handle waking before dawn to saddle horses and ride fence. None of them could be part of a branding crew.

None of them could field strip a rifle if their life depended on it.

I couldn’t imagine them working in a dockyard, or hauling freight across country.


26 posted on 01/04/2022 9:05:35 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: simpson96

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 01/04/2022 9:05:41 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: simpson96

Nothing new. River Phoenix and later, young Leonardo DiCaprio both swooned girls with their feminine good looks.


28 posted on 01/04/2022 9:05:42 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: simpson96

The popular style changes all the time. But what each sex actually finds attractive does not. We don’t always even like the traits we are wired to be attracted to.


29 posted on 01/04/2022 9:05:44 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: TexasGator

30 posted on 01/04/2022 9:05:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: simpson96

I think there is a difference between girly-man Harry Styles and Tom Holland, who just happens to be 5’ 8”. Tom Holland plays a character who is high school age, so the height works to make him appear younger than he is. But the character is also brave and not afraid to fight.


31 posted on 01/04/2022 9:07:08 AM PST by tnlibertarian
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To: Army Air Corps

32 posted on 01/04/2022 9:07:42 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: simpson96

I remember this from fifty years ago when all the boy heart throbs on the cover of TEEN and TIGER BEAT magazines looked like young girls.

Average length of stay on a cover was three months, then they would be dumped for a new heart throb girly boy.


33 posted on 01/04/2022 9:07:47 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: simpson96

Don’t all Korean males eventually have to serve in the Army? That’s going to be interesting.


34 posted on 01/04/2022 9:08:47 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember this from fifty years ago when all the boy heart throbs on the cover of TEEN and TIGER BEAT magazines looked like young girls.

Well, LOL, there's always exceptions....


35 posted on 01/04/2022 9:09:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Drew68

And remember when Sinatra started, he was as skinny as a rail, and most guys at the time thought he was kind of a pansy.


36 posted on 01/04/2022 9:10:53 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: simpson96

Shlock! Nothing but shlock.

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/shlock


37 posted on 01/04/2022 9:11:00 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: simpson96

Gay


38 posted on 01/04/2022 9:14:05 AM PST by rdl6989 ( )
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To: simpson96

Translation: “Perverted Hollywood producers, directors, and managers select soy boys to molest.”


39 posted on 01/04/2022 9:14:06 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: simpson96

“Harry Styles”

...is a pussy.


40 posted on 01/04/2022 9:16:02 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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