No wonder Maltese women go nuts when a ship full of sailors comes in
Exactly what is wrong with Maltese men? Can’t they be normal? It’s like the two extremes in this country: they either look like they’ve crawled out of a cave after eating themselves sick for months without access to ablutions, or they come across as individuals who spend rather too much time at the waxing salon, putting Vaseline on their brows, royal jelly around their eyes, and cream on their hands every night before going to bed.
Now we have this, to cater to the growing market of Maltese hetero men who don’t seem to know – because they’re backwards in this, too – that there is a certain look which in the rest of the civilised world marks you out as decidedly homosexual, even if you’re not.
They don’t seem to know, either, that it’s only very young and very naive women (girls, really) who see this grown-up version of the boy-band look as compellingly attractive precisely because it lacks the signifiers of maleness.
And then they get all cross, anxious and ragingly jealous when the women here go nuts for an shipload of sailors.
I think it’s time some enterprising Maltese woman started a campaign for real men, pointing out that there isn’t a fine line between washing your face, using deodorant and wearing good clothes, and lying on a couch swathed in hot towels and getting a facial done once a week while somebody fiddles around rubbing cream into your cuticles.
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Sounds like a pet-grooming centre.
It is not only the very young and very naive women that behave like this and are attracted towards the waxed men. I would add the closeted gay and belated openly gay middle-aged men in this category. Look at the way these middle-aged gay men treat the Moviment as a boy band and the hysterical way they are attached to it.
The queer note:
“there is a certain look which in the rest of the civilised world marks you out as decidedly homosexual, even if you’re not”
In actual fact, these kind of men are coming to own this look, as much as gay men themselves are moving away from it, on the continent, though of course not in Malta. However, it will always be called the gay look.
The idea that a man shaves/waxes his chest hair is as revolting to some gay men as it is to you. This sub-culture of straight-imitating gay-imitating straight is actually quite confusing and it is difficult to interpret the standard stereotype.
I do agree with you, though, that in Malta the look is growing. Obesity in straight men is also on the increase. I am really sorry for the ladies – that’s Joseph and Michelle’s middle class, I am afraid.
There are different types of gay guys. In Malta for example, there are the type that feel they never have to leave Malta and now even more so because Joseph is awarding them civil union. The type that say out loud that Malta is the best place to be because they are tolerated, as oppose to being abused.
These are the types who also feel like they can gain leverage or in some cases even be appointed to government boards by dressing and behaving in a way that they can stand out.
But there are decent types too, who you don’t hear about at all. Sexuality does not come in the way they do for work or what their relationships are with their siblings or friends. It matters in bed.
True, very true. This has been noticeable for quite some years now, but I believe that parents, especially mothers, have a lot to answer for this approach and mentality.
This one takes the biscuit.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Former-chairman-of-Labour-s-think-tank-appointed-Freeport-s-CEO-20130829
Metrosexual .
A Labour one is called Meritocra-sexual.
Many Maltese men AND women can’t seem to understand that having facials, manicures and pedicures is a waste of money if you let yourself weigh as much as a small car and are clearly unfit.
Having said that, there are few things as unattractive as a very hairy male back.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2013-08-29/news/former-chairman-pls-think-tank-appointed-freeport-ceo-2453372928/
Now we’ve truly hit rock bottom.
Sa sentejn ilu, dan kien ‘junior lawyer’ – litteralment beginner fil-prattika tal-ligi.
U iva mhux laqwa li ghaddejja l-paga minn fuq dar il-poplu Malti.
I think even some of the men who go to this salon will go nuts when a shipload of sailors comes in.
You legend!
A shipload of sailors? The 1950s just called, they want you back.
[Daphne – Bit out of date, aren’t you. Go down to the docks (and Paceville) whenever a naval vessel comes in. 1950s, my eye.]
Speaking of Maltese male specimens, you may now weep: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.403819236396855.1073741838.397839913661454&type=1