Metrosexuals.

[GOD]

As I've said for a long time "British guys are wimpy to say the least".

Anyway, here's the article.

Death of the masculine man? - Get Dates | Improve *** | Become Couples | Break Up Help

An excerpt,

According to report, young British women agree that men have stepped too far into the feminine domain and want their ‘real men’ back, with two thirds of women aged 18-29 complaining they think men are not as masculine as men of yesteryear. A girl also still wants her leading man, with 60 per cent saying they’d prefer a man to take control in their relationship.

“There’s no need for men to head back to the cave”, Brown says, “but it’s clear from the research that a more defined identity needs to be established.”

[Louie]

"Know thyself"......

Love and respect the self..for anyone, be comfortable in your skin and about your own choices.

Whether you be male or female or somewhere in between....you are who you are...

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

~E.E. Cummings. (1955)

If sticking head under a car bonnet is what floats your boat, that is your choice, if doing the ironing and self development group participation helps you in your quest for independence and awareness; good for you!

The thing is, we can be anything we want to be!

I don't need or choose to be Paris Hilton or Marilyn Monroe Mark 11....but I have my own femininity rocking and rolling in my own way...

My ** chromosones do not define me as a person, it's only my gender, I am the person I am because of my values, my thoughts, my path in life...my....!

"All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.
I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naïve.
I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself. "

~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

I would ask the question of the 18 to 29yo females do they even know who they are, before they would begin asking that their partners be more or less of something they perceive that they may want?

Do we have the right to ask males to be more or less of anything!?

Be who you want to be....and the best that you can be...I will love you no less...and respect you even more. (What I answer my sons when they ask about life stuff).

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are".

~E.E. Cummings


"Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep."

~Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750

Life is wonderful and never forget to have fun.

[GOD]

One thing though,

Ask the same questions but in reverse to british males about women and they will bemoan the fact that women aren't what they used to be.

I think traditional stereotypes do have a place, thats why they existed in the first place.