The Unspoken Man Code has many rules. Next pitcher's on us. No crying at any movies rated PG or lower. Eyes forward at the urinal at all times. Another: Never admit you're worried about how you look.
It's doubtful that you'll hear many men ask anybody how they look in their jeans, or if their back hair is getting too Konglike, or if that flabby jiggle hanging over the belts is something they should be concerned about. While it may be common for women to articulate their bodily insecurities (in hopes that men will dismiss them, perhaps), men rarely say anything about theirs. That's because they're afraid that women will label them as too vain, too weak, too metro, too feminine, too devoid of the confidence they want and expect in a man.
But the truth is that men care almost as much about their appearance as Lindsay Lohan cares about New Year's Eve. The survey I did for my book Men, Love & Sex showed that 9 in 10 men aren't satisfied with their appearance -- and that they'd jump at the chance at changing one particular part of their body if they could. Consider these truths about men and their appearance -- and then ask yourself, Who's really more vain, women...or men?
Women may buy more shoes, but men drop the big bucks. When asked how much he'd pay for rock-hard abs (if it was only that easy), the average guy would invest $5,000 of his own money in himself. For movie-star looks in general, he'd drop $17,600. The scary fact: Although more women actually pay for cosmetic enhancements, men who seek medical help for their appearance are twice as likely to opt for an invasive cosmetic procedure like liposuction rather than a non-invasive appearance boost.
Men care more about their boobs than you do. Check this out: Only 34 percent of women surveyed said they'd want bigger breasts, but 38 percent of men said they'd want larger pectoral muscles. (If you were wondering, the circumference of the average man's chest is two inches larger than that of a woman's.) Men either have the pecs that are strong enough to break knuckles, or we're subjected to the ubiquitous man-boob barbs. And that hurts. Beating pecs as the top male body issue by the tiniest of jiggles: Just over 40 percent of guys say the gut is the No. 1 body part they'd like to change.
$1.1 billion can buy a lot of hair gel. One of a man's biggest frets comes when he looks down the shower drain and says goodbye to the mane that defines his manhood. American men spend more than $300 million on toupees annually. And $800 million on hair transplants (up to $20,000 for each procedure, which is performed on more than 24,000 men annually-and just 7,000 women).
Now ladies, you may be tempted to decry this as further evidence of the wimpification of the American male. Or say that men are the new women. But let's think this through a little bit. Vanity, of course, can be shallow and self obsessive. As ever, if you take anything to extremes, it becomes a liability. But this time of the year in particular, vanity, properly calibrated, can be a useful form of self-evaluation. And in fact, how we look does have direct corollaries in how healthy we are. That jiggly gut or flabby chest can be a warning of dangerously low metabolism, an early warning sign of high blood pressure, diabetes, even heart disease. And if we take those warnings for what they are, and act to change, our vanity just might turn us around in the short run, and save lives in the long run.
Think men have their appearance priorities in the right place? Or should they be worried about something else when it comes to their image and looks? Let me know.
Recently a BBC report on japanese culture, shopping, ritual in doing business, wrapping...etc. Western media uses to think japanese males and females are not happy with their image. You see many young japanese died their hair to become blond boys, blond girls....so that the mentality of you are not pround with your own look or your root. If a pround person never does anything like that, because at the end you never escape what and who you are. I would mind my nieces or nephews died their hair, but for me it look terrible, and for western people, when they see a blond person from behind...until they see your face, then inside their mind, they will say oh...asian, so if you are pround what you are and believe in your rooot, then those things are not important, dress well, it means you don't have to wear expensive clothes but know how to dress, a man just a shirt a proper pair of trouser it would be fine, if you want to look well, look after your body and your mind as the same time, eat well, exercise, avoid dringking alcohol, a little bit of dringking won't kill you, but too much also affected everything even the way you look. So if a western person thinks that why a japanese person looking to the west for dressing or dreams to look like a blond man or girl, is strange then japanese young people have Identity problems. But if you are pround with your root, you do not need to go to the extend, so you look like a blond man or woman, of course nobody could stop you to make your colour of hair in anyway you wanted but deep down....is more than that...LAOS TV should negotiate and show this BBC report on Japan, how far they do their things particularly in shopping, retail, just INCREDIBLE, and Fashion how japanese want to be seen, how they dress, shopping etc.
This is not the first time that BBC report on Japan, and young japaneses with Identity Crisis, in the 90s BBC also had documents showing young japanese boys and girls with blond hair, BBC reporter at that time said, to japanese, ' you have you own beauty why you want to change' one of my friend, in Europe that we became friend in Businsess College, told me, they are strange people their parents worked hard to build a country like that 'JAPAN' strong in Economy, and the young japanese acted like they are not happy being japanese. Unpleasant side BBC reporter also stated that 'Whores or Prostitutes' also have blond hair so young japanese girls with blond hair could easily mistaken as whores....when a western person thinks about that is mean they could see things which these young japaneses did not. Have a look at Hi5.com all laos girls in this fun website who have blond hair also pose the more and more like Pornography girls, and these had many boys, and men fancy about them, the dirty, or exploitation side....I wonder these young lao girls realise these things or just follow some bad recommendation, terrible... Young lao should tell each other, not to dye their hair. Identity Crisis....or deny your root.
The guy in the magazine isn't representative of a traditional Asian men. That looks too western/caucasion. You know the bone structure is all caucasion. Most of the Japanese entertainers look very white. You know tall, leggy, gorgeus figure, chiseled face. high-rosie cheeks, big cat eyes, long neck. That is more the characteristics of European.
