Modern man disliked by women

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Do women really prefer Macho Men. Survey shows women like a rough fella. Ladies do not prefer a man who is into makeup and fashion.


Australian newspaper The Age:

'New' men are out and macho men are in

Metrosexual man is out as women reclaim their territory in the beauty parlour.

The age of the "new" man could finally be over - women want the growl back in grown men.

Mr Right, a survey shows, is dependable rather than fashionable, spends more time working on the house than on himself, and is more likely to buy his cosmetics at a corner shop than a salon.

Ninety per cent of the women questioned said that their ideal man was low-maintenance and easy-going. Almost three-quarters said they preferred a man who spent his spare time doing jobs around the house. Nearly half (47 per cent) said that the ideal man spent his money on electrical gadgets rather than cosmetics, and almost as many (41 per cent) said that their Mr Right was a sports fan. Only 9 per cent believed that their man spent his money on designer clothes. The poll's findings will make uncomfortable reading for actors such as Jude Law, Orlando Bloom and Hugh Grant, all at the vanguard of "metrosexuality". Their emphasis on high fashion and personal grooming is now considered a turn-off. Rather than sarong-wearing stars such as David Beckham, it seems that women prefer the charms of a new breed of rough-and-ready heart-throbs epitomised by the likes of Clive Owen, Daniel Craig and Colin Farrell.

The Harris interactive survey of 1128 American women, carried out for Dodge trucks, has been welcomed this side of the Atlantic.

Margi Conklin, the editor of New Woman magazine, said that the film Closer, starring Law and Owen, had effectively separated the men from the boys. "There was no contest between the two men in that film. Jude is very pretty but I think women prefer Clive because he is raw and sexy."

Conklin insisted that a man who is obsessed with his looks is going to be obsessed with those of his lady - a turn-off.

Kathy Lette, the novelist, also welcomes the findings. She said that metrosexual man had been a media myth with about as much basis in fact as the non-existent new man.

"I think a lot of men called themselves metrosexual because they thought it would get them a more intelligent bonk," she said.

So is it goodbye to grooming and hello hairy? British broadcaster Esther Rantzen doesn't think so. For her, bathing and beauty really go hand in hand.

"Perfection lies in compromise. You don't want a man who spends longer than you in the beauty parlour - but on the other hand, he must take regular baths and smell good."

Ian Denson, the managing director of London salon Nicky Clarke, agrees. Having worked with both Law and Owen on the set of Closer he is convinced that men are working on their looks regardless of whether they are trying to achieve a metro or macho appearance.

"There's a huge amount of men's grooming products out there," he said.

"We have a lot of men who come into the salon who do want to be groomed. Some are metro, some macho, but they all are using grooming to achieve their look.

"Even today's macho men have an element of grooming behind them. Macho no longer means men who aren't washing."

Isla Blair, a doyenne of the British stage and the wife of Julian Glover - who is starring in the West End production The Dresser - believes that there is more to macho than a bit of designer stubble.

"No matter how macho and tough you look on the outside, on the inside you need someone who is kind and funny," she says. "A man is only macho if he is gentle, too. Insensitive and boorish - that's not macho at all."


comment: So, its true. Women love a real man. They do not like men who are girls on the inside. Modern man is dislikes because he tries to impress with fashion and wears makeup which is arean of women. Men are not suppose to have lipsstick on their lips.

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