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[Big_Bird]

Your testicles are terrific

Women comment on each other's appearance all the time - so why can't men do the same?

[Jandar]

A: Hey, man I really like that grease stain on your jeans.

B: Yeah, I was working on the '69 GTO I pulled out of Tiny's Junk Yard.

A: Is that red spot from the hunting trip when you got the 5 pointer?

B: Naw, that's a fresh ketchup stain from breakfast, and the buck was only a four pointer.

[the_beaver]

Well, generally men don't know much about the appearance of other men. An ex-girlfriend and I ran a test on this once. I pointed out guys that I thought would be considered attractive or ugly and she verified whether or not I was right. I was always correct about ugly, but had no consistency picking attractive.

[JMO]

I do notice if other men are handsome or not and can give pretty good tips about clothing and especially shoes. My male friends think this is pretty suspect.

I flat out don't believe them when they say they are unaware if a guy is handsome or not. It is very easy to tell.

[Cornfed]

One of the reasons bodybuilding is a good sport is that it allows men to comment on eachother's appearance without necessarily seeming gay.

[the_beaver]

[Justin Hale]

If I said something about a guy being handsome and someone, as a result, thought I was gay, I'd have to just laugh, because I've not been in a situation like that since 6th grade. Really, that's incredibly childish and in my view much rarer than the writer believes. Extremely detailed observations "about each other's hair, lips, eyes, cheeks, neck, breasts, stomach, legs, thighs, etc" don't occur because males don't make observations like that about women either.

[prideofidaho]

The 'you're gay' thing is really lame, we all know that. It's just an attempt to hold men in their traditional gender roles, I think. I think it can just be a nice thing you say to a buddy. Just don't get too vain about it, cause that's the downfall for women, I think.

There's telling someone they look nice, or appreciating what they're wearing, and then there's creepy and vain self-deprecation. I've found that women are either genuinely complementing on one another, or slighting themselves. I wonder if men will get together and talk about how fat their asses are. We're all guilty of it at some point, but I don't want to hear males or females putting themselves down.

[caniff]

I'll tell anybody anything I feel like. "Nice shirt." "Good haircut." You're getting kind of fat." "You look like shit today." "You're hot."

Maybe I've been in Korea too long.

[Tiger Beer]

If you ever try to go clothing shopping as a guy, you will ALWAYS notice that most stores you go into, don't have a men's section...when you do find a men's section, it will be way in the back somewhere, and then you'll have lame ass choices.

[Manner of Speaking]

Shouldn't the question be the other way around?

If women were more like men, and weren't so obsessed with competing with each other over their appearance and dress...just think how much less of the world's resources would go into producing junk like fashion magazines, cosmetics, hair products, usless TV commercials, throw-away clothes and shoes, etc., etc., etc.

[mindmetoo]

Because if your boyfriend did that ONCE in front of your mother, your mother would warn you maybe your boyfriend was gay and she knew some friend of a friend whose husband was living a secret gay life and having unprotected sex with men in washrooms and maybe that's your future and how could you even think of having a child with a man who might infect you with HIV and you'd start asking around and find out lots of your female friends know of a man who lived such a secret life and you'd start to worry your boyfriend really was gay and every little limp wristed thing he did you would start to interpret as not him being sensitive but him being a closet homo and you'd not be able to sleep at night and you'd start doing things like reorganizing y our sweater drawer at 3 am because you believe it gives you some control over your life.

That's why. Geez.

[peppermint]

[Ukon]

Korean guys do it....

As for western guys, if you dress well, random guys will compliment a random item of clothing and sometimes your whole look.....rarely physical features unless it's done in a "BTW, the women there will love you, your a good looking guy" kind of way.

[Big_Bird]

Korean guys and African guys often told my husband he was very handsome. I remember an African walking past and saying loudly and sincerely "you are a very handsome man" and walking off. Actually, come to think of it, an English friend told him "you're a bloody good looking bastard!"

Not very gay to my ears.