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Author: Huo

Jun 17th 2012 at 4:43:54 PM

* Not being pretty enough to guarantee sex
** The unique marketing element of male grooming products.
*** Where as women put perfume to attract a mate, men fear not attracting enough mate which is why many products sell well even if they stink like skunk.
** Subverted by metrosexuality
*** Men do really want to feel bad ass. They just happen to want feeling bad ass while looking like the secure safe option for a mate compared to that real bad ass over there
*** also known as, "if you can't be them, beat them when they're off being away from the target"

* Not reached the overkill state of their dreams
** Leonardo da Vinci is said to lament this: [[quoteblock]]I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.[[/quoteblock]]
** Also why men envy the physique of people who clearly take illegal supplements such as steroids but would mock them once it's revealled they took TrainingFromHell with pills thus killing the dream state of TrainingFromHell

* Being made masculine
** http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_100/142_dating_advice.html