Real Men are in, Metrosexuals are out...

A new Harris poll shows that a majority of women prefer "manly" men over the well-manicured girlie-men that Hollywood tends to idolize. The results speak volumes about the attempts in the last twenty to thirty years to try to "feminize" men.

"It just shows that there are some things that you can't change and that, while feminism for a long time has been pushing us towards androgyny with little girls with trucks and guys with dolls, women tend to have feministic traits and guys the opposite," says Carrie Lukas, director of policy with the Independent Women's Forum. "If anything, it shows what feminism hasn't been able to accomplish."

Among the findings of the poll:

• 75 percent of women said their ideal man buys his grooming products at a grocery store or drugstore, not a salon
• 72 percent of women said their ideal man spends his free time doing home-improvement projects.
• 41 percent of women said their ideal man spends his time watching sports (one of my personal favorites)
• 47 percent of women said their ideal man spends his money on electronics, compared with 9 percent who answered "designer clothes
• 90 percent of women said they prefer low-maintenance, easygoing guys.

So what's wrong with a guy spending hundreds of dollars getting facials and pedicures and who's favorite store in the mall is Abercrombie & Fitch? F. Carolyn Graglia, author of "Domestic Tranquility, sums it up nicely: they're too wrapped up in themselves to give a woman what she really wants.

Mrs. Graglia sees the "fashionable man" celebrated by pop culture as an emblem of selfishness. Men being more concerned about how they look than how dependable they are, she says, is a sign of the times. "So many men are like that -- so narcissistic, so self-centered. They are really afraid of growing up," she says. "To me, a man who would look down on [being manly] isn't a real man and isn't in touch with the real things in life."

It must be pretty frustrating for a woman when your man spends more time in the bathroom than you do.

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