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  1. I think the more basic trend is away from age (or even adulthood) and towards youth. It’s not so much that sexuality or even sexual dimorphism are being spurned, it’s growing old–or growing up.

    Bang!

  2. I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that same reaction when I saw Titantic – I could not get a feel for any chemistry between the main characters. He looked like he was about 15-16 and she was around 22-23. College senior falls for hot high school sophomore. But nobody I knew saw it that way.

    Not to mention that it was two separate movies. First half – a chick flick romance novel, with a pretty mediocre script “Lookee, I’ll teach ya how to Spit” and second half – the Posieden Adventure – I kept looking for Shelly Winters.

    One of the more overrated movies of its time. IMO.

  3. Touching on (maybe not the best choice of words) what br549 alluded to there are a lot of things getting waxed and shaved (by both sexes). I agree, though – it is the pursuit of the non-hirsute androgynous look.

  4. Oh and since you put on the video with Cheryl Burke there is something else that seems to go along with this whole “how I look” thing. The other dancers on the show criticized her when she came back this year carrying a few extra pounds – which no one would have noticed but them. It didn’t eve stop here from getting into her costumes.

    There is so much emphasis put on style instead of substance – no wonder we are in the shape (figuratively) we are in.

    PS – sorry about the “shape (figuratively)” pun

  5. The Boomer generation refused to grow up, but at least the men kept their chest hair. Maybe this generation is going the Boomers one further.

    And yeah, I don’t get Leonardo di Caprio, either.

  6. No kidding. I agree with Neo re Leo di Caprio — that latest Scorsese movie with him as an undercover cop, I couldn’t bear watching it thru to the end — when he beat up two burly mob guys in a bodega, I had to shut it off, it was so ridiculous. But Scorsese thinks di Caprio is amazing — he’s compared him to a young Robert DeNiro.

    Yeah, right.

  7. I always swore i’d never be like my dad. Now i read politics, drink black coffee and have hair on the front and back. Go figure.

  8. Male obsession with looks and fashion reflects infection with homosexual culture. Simple as that.

    Real men don’t obsess on their looks (let’s face it, all men are ugly; some just let so than others). Vanity is strictly for the bathhouse set.

    While you’re at it, neo, what about the tattoo plague? (Not the “Mom” or globe and anchor variety, but rather the Borneo native style.) IMO, nothing says “dirtbag” quite like elaborate ink. Even some attractive gals go in for billboard-like displays. In fact, it’s a great investment opportunity: companies that remove tattoos. Definitely a buy and hold stock.

  9. Dogman: DiCaprio a young De Nero? Sure—a fetal De Nero.

    Plus, he’s got the “De” sound at the beginning of his last name, and it ends in “o.”

    Works for me.

  10. Tattoos are saying “look at me, I’m different” Now everybodys exactly different? Lol

  11. Yep. As the old joke goes, “You’re unique – just like everybody else!”

  12. I believe it has a lot to do with one’s father….for women that is. Mine had a full chest full of hair and as a young girl I always thought it was shaped like an anchor. 🙂 But he always seemed to have a few hairs peeking out of his collar that tickled my nose and if he happened to have his shirt off there was no more comforting thing than to be cuddled up in his strong arms and soft curly hair. So to me, manly men like my Daddy have hairy chests. Nothing will turn me off quicker than a man with a chest smoother than mine. Not that I have ever experienced that, unlike Neo I do have a strong prefernece. 🙂 Doesn’t have to be a chest full of muscles but it must be hairy. Leo? He still looks like my son at about 8 years old…..eewwwww!

  13. Of course the irony of Occam’s Beard’s observation is that the fondness for male chest here is currently alive and well in the male homosexual community. Although certain gay men are drawn to the more androgynous looking or even slightly effeminate guys, others are drawn more to the much more masculine-looking type (and that can include either muscles or chest hair or both). Insofar as male fashion and grooming tends these days originate in the gay community, it should be making a comeback more widely before too long.

    I also appreciated both Neo’s and SouthernJames’s comments about Titanic. That was sort of my general impression of the movie, the more I heard or read about it. So I never saw it. It sounds like I didn’t miss anything.

  14. I don’t know why this thread reminded me of the old grade school joke about hair on the knuckles.
    But for some inexplicable reason, I somehow feel smarter by shaving them.

  15. What D-mom said.

    My Elfie, in his own word: “Dude, I’m Italian. What did you expect?”

    For that matter, my mom’s male family members all look like they’re wearing rugs on their chests, and are built like very tall dwarves. (of the mithril type, not the growth problem)

    I just can’t stand the little boys that keep being offered…it’s icky.

  16. This topic reminds me of an story I read in some Hollywood book about moviemaking.

    They were filming a scene in The Ten Commandments or maybe it was Ben Hur, I forget. Anyway they were shooting a scene in close up, a romantic scene where he is holding his sweetheart and she is snuggling her head against his chest.

    They kept shooting take after take and finally stopped. The director consulted with the cinematographer and then they took Heston away to his trailer.

    Apparently the camera guy said that the shot looked like the girl was lying on a shag rug, her nose buried in his chest hair. So it was off to the trailer to shave his chest.

  17. That’s not all that’s getting shaved (or waxed).

    Ummm…some of us have to…what’s the word? ah, yes, do a little manscaping. But only south of the border, or north of the collar…

  18. You really must watch the movie “The 40 Year Old Virgin” just for the chest hair waxing scene. There is nothing quite so funny or horrifying at the same time.

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  20. I think that some of this is due to our immense wealth as a society. The fact that many men have disposable time and income to worry about whether they have chest hair or not is an amazing development, when a mere 50-100 years ago darn near everyone was more worried about putting food on the table.

    Just for the record, I don’t think it’s a good thing. As a grown man, I attempt to focus on things of more importance than whether my chest is scratchy or not.

    The Human race can do better.

  21. I noticed this a few years ago when during the annual spring ritual on campus of guys playing frisbee without shirts occurs. I couldn’t help but notice that of the 40 or so college guys running around, not a single one had chest hair. Strains the laws of genetics.

    “Oh, bother Says:

    April 10th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
    The Boomer generation refused to grow up, but at least the men kept their chest hair. Maybe this generation is going the Boomers one further. ”

    And noting that every other part of the body is also subjected to the razor/wax by both males and females; it does suggest a deep need to keep the bodies in a perpetual prepubescent state. The analysis I’ll leave to Neo. Me, I prefer adults who look like adults.

  22. Neo and all – I thought the same thing watching Titanic. DiCaprio looked like a kid and it kinda ruined the movie for me.

    I’m a lesbian, so I don’t know how much my opinion counts, but I think chest hair is sexy (on men). But then, I’m not on the pill. : P

  23. While I find the whole waxing the chest thing weird (I have no problem with chest hair as it is soft, but I’m not so keen on facial hair which is not so soft – at least on my hubby), I am more disturbed that so many men seem so attracted to the excessive bikini waxing by women. So, what? They find the look of a 8 year old girl sexually attractive? That is seriously creepy.

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