I'm English, which by American male standards seems to mean I'm either gay or at least effeminate... :)
I think perhaps I made the wrong implication. It's not a case of all women want the same thing and all gay men want the same thing... it's more that *generally*, men respond to visual cues more than women, so there's a tendency for gay men to be better groomed, and groomed in a different way, than heterosexual men. After all, the whole point is to *deliberately* set off other gay men's gaydar, right?
Waffling a bit here, sorry. But yeah, I think there's a myth (actively spread by magazines like Cosmo and Maxim, which are written by the SAME PEOPLE, HMM) that all women want a certain kind of man, and all men want a certain kind of women. Sells more beauty products and fashion, after all.
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Date: 2006-11-13 09:55 pm (UTC)I think perhaps I made the wrong implication. It's not a case of all women want the same thing and all gay men want the same thing... it's more that *generally*, men respond to visual cues more than women, so there's a tendency for gay men to be better groomed, and groomed in a different way, than heterosexual men. After all, the whole point is to *deliberately* set off other gay men's gaydar, right?
Waffling a bit here, sorry. But yeah, I think there's a myth (actively spread by magazines like Cosmo and Maxim, which are written by the SAME PEOPLE, HMM) that all women want a certain kind of man, and all men want a certain kind of women. Sells more beauty products and fashion, after all.