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  1. And it is about gay culture, muscular sterotypes notwithstanding.

    From the Urban Dictionary entry quoted above:

    “The stereotypical twink is 18-22, slender with little or no body hair, often blonde, dresses in club wear even at 10:00 AM, and is not particularly intelligent. A twink is the gay answer to the blonde bimbo cheerleader.”

  2. I know little about psychology, so I’ve no idea if this is correct, or b/s… but, I read once that teenaged girls often have initial attraction to boys who remind them of themselves, i.e. girly looking boys. The teenaged girls are actually very focused on themselves, et al and whatever, and thus: David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Leo DiCaprio.

  3. Gay culture is popular culture. It sees masculinity through a double lens. Both distort. The first lens is the gay man’s view of women, which is simultaneously over idealized and amoralized. Masculinity is then viewed from the standpoint of this amoral ideal.

    Point the popular culture at a skinny, effeminate man and it projects a larger-than-life masculine ideal on trendy magenta drapes. Don’t have trendy, magenta drapes?

    Breeder!

  4. Simple: the outcry about anorexic models forced the fashion industry to quit using women who look like underfed teenage boys. This forced the designers to start hiring _actual_ underfed teenage boys.

  5. It’s all about the feminization of the American male.

    No kickball, no batteball, no phys. ed., no fighting, no horseplay, no roughhousing, anger management, Ritalin, suppress the male, drug the male, etc, etc.

    What your left with is a bunch of wussified metrosexuals.

    Compare the movie stars of the past with those of today:

    Then nostly men:
    John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Sean Connery

    Today mostly girly men:
    Leonardo di Caprio, Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Richard Gere, etc.

  6. “The lovely Kate Winslett looked as though she could eat him for breakfast and still be hungry”

    That is what I always thought! Nobody I knew agreed with me, but I thought it was terrible casting. Leonardo di Caprio struck me as a snotty little twirp in the movie & I couldn’t believe Kate Winslett’s character would be attracted to him..ruined the whole thing for me.

  7. What, me worry? So, who goes to fashion shows sporting male fashion models anyway? I haven’t glanced at the cover of GQ at 711 in a long time, but I bet there you still don’t find too many “twinks”. We don’t need to start worrying until they show up on pro-basketball and they can’t jump or shoot. Real men are 48 and look like they’re 6 months pregnant anyway…

  8. Hey, Tap, I agree! I thought di Caprio was completely inappropriate for that part! He was fine as a wispy young lover in Romeo and Juliet, but as a romantic hero in Titanic, especially one who’se supposed to be a wild Irish romantic and roustabout, he was ridiculous!

    And, of course, it didn’t help that the script made him creepily repulsive. He teaches the heroine to spit (ugh!) and shows her pictures of a “beautiful prostitute” he drew in Paris (the way to any woman’s heart; show her pictures of a streetwalker.)

    I was surprised the girl didn’t just push him into the Atlantic!

  9. Was that why McCain won, do you think? Because republicans didn’t want a twink?

  10. “I haven’t glanced at the cover of GQ at 711 in a long time, but I bet there you still don’t find too many “twinks”.”

    I flipped through my stepson’s most recent copy, and the Prada and Gucci ads are quite twinkly. I’m glad to have a word for it, I was using “disturbing.”

  11. This is the look of tall boys after they’ve got their growth and before they have to shave.

    My 17 (next month) year old son told me a couple of days ago that he weighs 135 pounds and he’s at least 6 feet tall. He really could play an extra in a holocaust movie. I told him it was normal to stretch out before he started bulking up.

    It’s hard to find clothes that fit but 30-32’s hang down on his hips far enough that they’re long enough too. It’s next to impossible to find pants with a 28″ waist.

    I told him he was built like a high fashion model.

    He thought that was funny.

  12. And my 17 year old son looks just like that. Last year he grew 10 cm higher, a head above my head, but still does not need to shave. My wife and me were shocked when a doctor called us and told that he has so low haemoglobine that it is “a catastrophe”. We always encourage him to eat more, but in vain.

  13. I hadn’t thought of that, but it could be why my son tires so quickly.

    I wonder if his masculinity could survive one-a-day plus iron.

    🙂

  14. Thanks for the Twinks!

    (I recently saw “Prime” with Meryl Streep as a Jewish mother/ therapist with a close 37 year old Uma Thurma client, recently divorced, who became infatuated / in love with a much younger 23 year old guy.
    “A career driven professional from Manhattan (Thurman) who is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst (Streep”
    Bryan Greenberg is slender, NOT skinny. Good cast.

    I thought quite “real” in many, many places, without being overdone. Including the guy looking like a sexy, cute, young, but definitely male B-ball playing guy.

  15. I have a theory. I’ve been wondering if the sexualization of the immature is not the seed of pedophilia. It’s a scary thought but pedophilia certainly seems to be on the rise. I am definitely not a professional but I’ve been reading news stories since I was 9, I am now 71, and it seems to me that rape of both girls and boys is on the rise. There is definitely much more porn of that nature available, some of it in prominent catalogs.

  16. I don’t understand why you’re making a big deal about Leonardo’s look?Maybe I’m imagining things but when The Beatles had girls screaming for them in the 60s,I remember them being lean,not muscular.Most of the great male rock stars(at least back in the day)that women were lusting for were skinny and androgynous looking. They didn’t have big arms and bulging pecs(which I find repulsive-looks like something that needs to go in a bra).
    And I’m sick of FAT men with thick necks and big,square faces.
    I don’t think a big body makes you more manly.That’s why we have soooo many fat men,most women don’t want a man who looks like the King Of Queens,whether they admit it or not.
    I am a hetrosexual woman who is physically attracted to a man with a slim physique .Not apologizing for it!

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