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August 14, 2012 By Fausta

Paul Ryan shirtless!


Althouse ponders the happy thought of a shirtless VP this morning, and who am I to object to any traffic a google search may bring?

Particularly when you, too, can purchase Paul’s P90X workout, gear, and health drink on Amazon through my links and earn me a modest commission, which Lord knows I can use!

Yes, you ought to read up on the truth about Ryan’s Medicare reform plan

1. No one over the age of 55 would be affected in any way.

2. Traditional Medicare fee-for-service would remain available for all. “Premium support”—that is, government funding of private insurance plans chosen by individuals—is an option for those who choose it. No senior would be forced out of the traditional Medicare program against his will.

3. Overall funding for Medicare under the Ryan-Wyden plan is scheduled to grow at the same rate as under President Obama’s proposals. Is this “gutting Medicare” and “ending Medicare as we know it”? In reality, it’s the market giving seniors cheaper, higher quality choices they can take if they wish, with the traditional program remaining an option.

But woman does not live by [entitlement] bread alone.

And yet another important asset,

Research shows a widow’s peak is a plus in politics.

Once you get the shirt off Ryan’s back, and he’s showing his hopefully unwaxed pecs, will you notice his widow’s peak, too?

UPDATE
Linked by Moe Lane. Thanks!

Oh! Shirtless Tebow!

Linked by Midnight Blue. Thanks!

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April 27, 2010 By Fausta

Chest hair makes a modest comeback

My friend D emailed the good news:
Gossip Girl Doing Its Part to Bring Chest Hair Back

Actors are men, and men have chest hair. This particular quirk of human anatomy, like natural tooth color, is one that television has spent the last decade annihilating. (Dreamboat actors used to look like this.) But battling natural phenomena is a loser’s game. There’s only so long that you can fight the rising tide, stop the setting sun, or convince Americans that the male body’s ability to sprout pectoral fuzz until death is disgusting. And so, chest hair on television is making a comeback. As proof, please look no further than the young men of Gossip Girl.

Prior to this season, Dan Humphrey and Nate Archibald were clean-shaven from the nose to the navel. (Chuck Bass was never quite, but he’s always worn his shirts buttoned to the top.) But over the course of this year, the gossip boys became men. Apparently, it’s cool to have chest hair once you’re in college.

Hooray! As I’ve said before,

Men, liberate your chest hair! Free yourselves from the shackles of waxing, plucking and shaving. Save the wax for your cars!

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March 9, 2010 By Fausta

Wax your back, go up in the polls

Marco Rubio spent $100 bucks at a salon and Crist says it was for a back wax,

Gay Patriot wanders if Crist really wants to go there. Erick‘s sending Crist some wax.

Now, when I saw Marco Rubio at CPAC he was wearing a suit, dress shirt and necktie, so I can’t tell you about the state of his back. Fully clothed he looks nice.

For the record, as long as Rubio’s not waxing his chest, I’m OK with back waxes.

But I digress.

Crist’s accusation backfired; Gateway Pundit points out that Rubio’s up in the polls, by 32 points.

Lord knows how high the polls would climb if Crist accuses Rubio of getting a manicure.

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Filed Under: Florida, politics, Republicans Tagged With: back wax, Charlie Crist, chest hair, Fausta's blog, Marco Rubio

January 21, 2010 By Fausta

“How tall is Scott Brown?”

Yesterday I was checking the blog stats on what people were looking for (a.k.a. “keyword analysis”) when coming to my blog, and whoa! 10% of people coming to my blog wanted to know “How tall is Scott Brown?”

In the interest of bringing my readers the important information they need, I asked my friend and investigative blogger Dan Riehl, who in turn replied,

I zoomed in on the Cosmo article – says 6’2″ if they were telling the truth. You may have to zoom in all the way but you can make it out.

There you have it,

Scott Brown is 6’2″


Or at least he was 6’2″ back in 1982, according to Cosmo.

And, as an additional public service to my readers (and further rule #5), you can check out the 1982 centerfold photo again right here:
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Filed Under: humor, Republicans Tagged With: chest hair, Fausta's blog, Massachusetts, Scott Brown

April 23, 2009 By Fausta

When Van meet Monie

Van Wallach wrote a very funny essay, Our Hairy Jewish Bodies, Ourselves, and he mentioned my post. You must go read Our Hairy Jewish Bodies, Ourselves.

And no, I am not fixated on chest hair in spite of two other posts on the subject. But, since it’s an opportunity for more Rule #5 blogging and y’all know I love Hugh Jackman, here he is at the beach… again:

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UPDATE, Friday 24 April
Welcome, Obi’s Sister and American Power readers. Please visit often.

Update, Sunday 26 April
Welcome, Rule 5 Sunday readers. Please visit often.

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April 13, 2009 By Fausta

Easing my mind on the hairless chests question

As you probably have noticed, I have been rather worried that a traditional sign of masculinity is being yanked out of existence right under our very eyes.

Fret not!

Following up on the Rule #5 posting, I came across a post on (who else!) Hugh Jackman.

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Hugh Jackman, at the beach, with the chest follicles clearly on display. The perfect way to start the week.

Regular blogging on American and Latin American politics will resume shortly.

UPDATE
The Anchoress sends more good news,
Goodbye skinny metrosexuals, the beefcake is back
Metrosexual twigmen who admire your shoes are all very well in good times, but when the going gets tough, what you actually want is a REAL man, says Tanya Gold.

I’m very picky and appreciate a REAL man who admires my shoes, but let’s not split hairs here. Gold is right on the money,

They have been replaced by Hugh Jackman, the massive Australian with the massive chest, and Clive Owen, the British Sin City star with the nasty growl.

Oh yes, Clive. Another old fav of mine, who also remains unwaxed,

clive_owen

She also mentions Daniel Craig, who looks good but manages to sound stupid on ocassion (after all, nobody’s perfect):

Daniel Craig in Casino Royale

Gold explains the appeal of manly-looking men,

It is better to have a man who can mend things for you. And butcher sheep. And build houses and grow vegetables and make things out of bits of wood.

Won’t you feel safer? Won’t you feel better, knowing that there is a serious lump of muscle between you and the cold, cruel world outside?

Then there is sex. Shopping may be dead, but sex is one of the few commodities that is booming. All the supermarkets are reporting increased condom sales. Because sex is a cheap form of entertainment and it is also comforting.

I believe the boom and all the aspirational rubbish that went with it was essentially about denying who we were. Look, I have a handbag/ dress/car/tiara fit for a princess! Except I wasn’t a princess, I was a journalist. And now I am a journalist in a lot of debt.

And now we can’t afford to pretend to be other people, we can have better relationships. A real person with another real person? Who could believe it?

Hardship gives great love, if you let it.

Do you remember the Blitz? Everyone had great sex in the Blitz, even my Auntie Marie, who hated men.

And who do you have sex with? Big, brawny, hairy men, proper men, that’s who.

No, I won’t be posting photos of The Husband. But Gold is right.

PS
The Monday Carnival is delayed, not because of manly men but because of work.

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April 10, 2009 By Fausta

About those hairless chests…

… that I find so puzzling, Neo-neocon tries to find an explanation:

There’s been a growing trend towards male TV and movie stars who look boyish rather than manly. Leonardo DiCaprio is typical, a fine and wildly popular actor but a perennial babyface who appeared, in most of his early roles, to have been unable to get a beard going if his life depended on it (although now that he’s entering middle age, he seems to have developed the ability to coax out a modest amount of facial hair). I don’t get his sex appeal; I thought that in “Titanic” the lovely Kate Winslett looked as though she could have chewed him up and spit him out for breakfast—or at least told him to go out on the deck and play with the other kids.

One could also say that this is part of a general trend towards androgyny and away from sexual dimorphism, and perhaps one would be correct. But I’m not at all sure; I think the more basic trend is away from age (or even adulthood) and towards youth. It’s not so much that sexuality or even sexual dimorphism are being spurned, it’s growing old—or growing up.

This probably explains why the appeal of the lampiños escapes me. I’ve always liked men, not boys.

Neo continues,

Purposeful and self-inflicted chest hairlessness is also an example of the general tendency to tinker with the human body. Body-building, body-piercing, liposection, plastic surgery—every inch seem to be fair game for transformation and supposed improvement. Throughout history and across the world, people have always been willing to suffer for the sake of attractiveness; the only things that keeps morphing are the details. And if you think about it, shaving or waxing are a whole lot less traumatic than foot-binding or neck-stretching with rings, or so many of the manifold torments to which human beings have subjected themselves in the vain (in every sense of the word) pursuit of beauty.

And best yet, Neo has a photo of Giles Marini, a very fine-looking (albeit hairless) gentleman (and yet another opportunity for Rule #5 blogging),

gilesshower

Nice!

Check out Neo’s tango video while you’re at it.

PS
To the reader that asked,
No, I don’t like hairy backs.

UPDATE, Saturday 11 April
Ziva, commenting in FaceBook,

Fausta I’m with you. I don’t get it either. If a man is naturally smooth, that’s fine. Personally, I’ve always preferred hairy men. My husband (I hope he doesn’t see this!) is hairy. I don’t understand the sex appeal of these “boys.” I can’t help but think that it has something to do with the feminist agenda of marginalizing men in society. Look at how men are portrayed on TV shows now compared to the old days of say, Father Knows Best. In their fem world, they don’t need or want husbands, and children don’t need fathers. Boys are no longer permitted to be boys, especially in school, but are expected to behave like emasculated versions of their former selves. In their feminized world what could be more offensive than a macho hairy guy?

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April 9, 2009 By Fausta

Captain Underpants

For Truth, Justice and all that is Pre-Shrunk and Cottony!

Men’s Underwear Sales, Greenspan’s Economic Metric, Reveal Crisis

As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan was known for using quirky, proletariat metrics to judge the temperature of the economy. The most famous of these, as recounted by NPR’s Robert Krulwich in January 2008, were the sales of men’s underwear. If the economic scales dipped even the slightest, Greenspan reasoned, it was as sure a sign as any that people were truly feeling the pinch.

“If you look at sales of male underpants it’s just pretty much a flat line, it hardly ever changes,” Krulwich recounted after the publishing of Greenspan’s book, “The Age Of Turbulence.” “But on those few occasions where it dips that means that men are so pinched that they are deciding not to replace underpants. And [Greenspan] said ‘that is almost always a prescient, forward impression that here comes trouble.'”

James illustrates the BVD-o-Meter:

jockey-microfiber-green-199x300

I hope the above photo qualifies under Rule #5, but it also brings to mind a question:
Why are young men waxing their chests?
You look at any ads showing bare-chested men nowadays and there’s not one singe chest follicle on display. All have been pulled out to a state of pectoral shiny baldness.

Is there some kind of contest going on?

More importantly, WHY THE HEY ARE YOU GUYS PUTTING YOURSELVES THROUGH THIS???

Are women now thinking that these pre-adolescent-looking lampiño chests are attractive? What happened to real men?

Men, liberate your chest hair! Free yourselves from the shackles of waxing, plucking and shaving. Save the wax for your cars!

UPDATE
Ada emails Tom Selleck in his Magnum PI days, hirsute and gorgeous:

tom-selleck-c10111326

UPDATE, Friday 10 April
Follow-up post with further Rule #5 blogging.

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