I have had a grey spot on the top of my head since I was about 13 years old. It is roughly about the size of a silver dollar. It looks like the grey spot that the guy who used to do Talk Soup had. (What a fucked up sentence)
Like I said, mine is pretty much right on tope of my head. Since I wear long hair it ends up that I have a grey streak down the back of my hair. Now my beard is turning grey. I am 30 years old. I would never consider dying my hair or beard. If some woman doesn’t want anything to do with me simply because of my hair, then I can’t imagine I really wanted anything to do with her, either. My grey streak and grey beard haven’t hurt me yet. Most people don’t actually care if my hair and beard are turning grey, and niether do I.
<Looks at quote. Looks at poster’s handle. Looks back and forth.>
Oh, daddy, will the self-loathing never cease?
Just remember Jean-Luc Picard and Sean Connery are sex idols.
Peace.
When some good scout, invites me out
To dine on some fine fin and haddie
My baby’s sure, his love is secure
Cause my heart belongs to daddy
Yes my heart belongs to daddy
So I simply couldn’t be bad
Yes I’m gonna marry daddy
Da-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-ad
If you feel romantic laddy
Let me warn you right from the start
That my heart belongs to daddy
And my daddy belongs to my heart
I wracked my brains for it last night and came up empty, but thankfully Google is more reliable than my little grey cells. The title of the story is Sales Pitch, and it’s available in this collection.
Who’s self-loathing? I’m older and hairy, so I clearly fit in with the whole “bear” thing, but I’m more into the rough hewn manly man, and not some Louis Anderson with a beard who goes to bear bars because he’s too lazy to go to the gym and the twinks at the other bars won’t give him the time of day.
I’m putting together a course on the rise of American consumer society, and that story sounds like a good example of attitudes to advertising and consumption. I might get the students to read it if it’s any good.
If they’re gay, they skip the “I like him” part. And you can add “lacks gym body”, “has bad hair,” and “is not wearing designer clothes” to the list.
[QUOTE=gobear]
Hey, just try being over-40 and gay! If you’re a middle-aged gay man, you are essentially invisible in gay media, which sells hairless, buffed-up twinks …
(BTW, that hysterical laughter you hear in the background is my wife. I mentioned to her that a fellow Doper found me attractive. Then she discovered who.)
Yeah, really. What, you lost the color in your hair so you decided to make up for it with your shirt? Oy gevalt!
But I’ve gotta tell you, you really are a nice looking fella. You couldn’t be more “not my type,” but for a guy who’s absolutely not my type, you ain’t half bad.
p.s. Hi Mrs. Silenus! I’m a 33 year old hetero female. So there.
I am trying to think of you as a worthless old fart as dictated by the advertisers, Sunspace, and it just isn’t happening. I’ll just think of you as rather sexy until further notice.
I saw that commercial today. I hated it heartily in honor of this thread.
My sweetie is 26 and not only does he have some gray hair, it’s also getting fairly thin on top. Oh dear, I guess I must dump him now.
Ha.
I hate those ads.
[slight hijack]I also hate any ads that imply that your stink will fell an elephant at 100 feet if you don’t use their deodorant, or even worse, their deodorant tampons. Nobody needs perfume up their hoohas.[/slight hijack]
And what’s the point of scented deodorants to begin with? All they do is mingle their sickly chemical odor with the natural human reek in a misbegotten stench that’s synergistically revolting. Ditto for scented cat litter – I mean, really! Adding perfume to cat stink? Who do they think they’re kidding?
I’ve never seen these commercials, and my tastes aren’t in the right half of the spectrum, but I can easily imagine you being right. After all, whenever I see an ad for hair curling, the morose-looking women with beautiful long straight hair are much more attractive than the happy New Jersey Hair “after” scene. Even taking into account happy people being more attractive than sad!
