Janet CollinsThe Ideal Man
April 13th 2009 21:50
Social demographers and marketers do have fun with men these days, don’t they? They are always coming up with combinations of looks, personality, emotions and styles that we women love in the opposite sex.
Once we women all thought our men were too blokey and too macho so they came up with the SNAG (sensitive new age guy), who wasn’t afraid to show his sensitive side and just simply knew what we were feeling all the time.
Men just had to revamp themselves again after women started complaining that the sensitive side in these men had become far too sensitive and timid for their liking. A new breed of man emerged, not too strikingly different from the SNAG but dropping a bit of the femininity. He was the Metrosexual.
Without any reversion to his macho roots, the Metrosexual retained his tough inner but was softer at the edges. This, Metrosexual, took an interest in his clothes and appearance often buying Armani, visiting beauty salons and buying beauty products.
Sometime earlier this decade the Metrosexual gave way to the Retrosexual after women went into a kind of withdrawal from the tough men they once knew. This new Retrosexual was almost a throw back to the original species who had very little interest in clothes or cosmetics and even had a penchant for DIY. Studies in Britain even reported that women were flocking to men who worked in trades.
This weekend it was reported that the cool guy has now revamped himself again. They call him the Neosexual, the ideal man for a Generation Y woman who has rejected the feminine type man and prefers men who are tougher - men who have traits belonging to men of generations past.
I’m confused now because I thought this was the Retrosexual!
Anyway, in an article in The Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend, leading demographer Bernard Salt said that Generation Y women in their 20s and early 30s “want the manliness of a James Bond, the looks of Hugh Jackman, the humour of Jim Carrey and the youth of Zac Efron”.
Dream on!
source: www.smh.com.au www.theage.com.au
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Comment by Norm
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Frankenstein.
A cut and paste man, if ever there was one.
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Yes I thought Jim Carrey was a rather odd addition (but I am not a 20-something) and I'm not sure I even know who Zac Efron is but you get the picture.
Comment by Lilla
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I don*t know how I missed this one?
I don*t really care if he is retro, metro or macho, but he has to be able to make me laugh and not make me feel like I would be bored after half an hour of listening to him rave on about all his problems from the day, nor in his trumpet blowing on how he overcame his obstacles . . I think a mans mind is as important as a well cared for body and a must if there is to be conversation. Without conversation there can be no sharing, ergo : no sexual interest (not on my part anyway).
Too many muscles is a turn off for me, just like too much fat. He does not cling to mums apron strings and can make his own decisions. He values my opinion relasing it is based on an intuition he does not posess.
Above all this, he is not addicted to any substances, is self motivated and not a TV couch potato who never gets in around the house and gets those pending odd jobs done without my having to play his mother with my hands on my hips. I hate men who make nags out of women as if it is a sport to them.
The ideal man will love to share the cooking with me, with abandon; drink wine, love animals and practice some sort of daily spiritual life.
My ideal bloke is not too blokey in that he cannot relate to woman anymore, nor a whimp who is scared of them ..
hahahah I think I just realised that my ideal man is a myth!
Lilla
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I think you have passed the expectations of the Gen Yers and I thought their expectations were high! But what's to stop us from dreaming? Men do it all the time.
Thank you. It was a very witty comment.
Comment by Morgan Bell
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ill put in an order for the humour of Norm, the height of Matthew Richardson, and the dress sense of Eddie Izzard
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Ahaha! It is a bit like design a man isn't it
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Which one are you? Do you fit into any of these templates?
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If your lady loves you then all the rest doesn't matter.
Marketers, they are a breed unto themselves because I can't see how men change from one day to another.