Dare To Ask Talk And News About Our Differences By PHILLLIP J. MILANO Question Is it true that U.S. society values men with a full, thick head of hair more than those of us who are going bald or are bald? Andy, 36, Albany, N.Y. Replies Absolutely. Thick hair connotes health and youth. Also, most people’s faces just aren’t attractive enough to pull off the no-hair deal. Hair can …
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DARE TO ASK: What is it about Asian women?
By PHILLLIP J. MILANO Question My friends and I are always curious about what kind of Asian girls foreigners think are beautiful. Ying-Yao, 24, Asian female, Miami Replies I’d say it’s just the “exotic” aspect of them to the Western imagination. We have a long history of imagining the mysterious Asian, however mistaken that may be. Vail, 40, male, Philadelphia …
Read More »DARE TO ASK: Let your curiosity do the talking
By PHILLIP J. MILANO Remember the kids in school who hurled insults whenever they saw someone they deemed too fat, too dorky, the wrong skin color, a sissy, the wrong faith, a foreigner? The truly deft members of this abuse posse almost never seemed to get caught in the act, much less in trouble. Then there was everybody else. The …
Read More »Some people have never heard of 9/11?
Is it possible that someone in the United States could not know about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11? I ask this because, believe it or not, I encountered two people, both Americans, on the Internet who had absolutely no clue as to what was going on when the FBI returned Elian Gonzalez to his father. One of them had …
Read More »Fatigues, dress whites, whatever — it better fit right to be sexy
Looking sexy in fatigues is all about the fit. A lot of styles these days are sloppy and baggy – which yes, can look nice, too – but a man’s uniform – whether it be fatigues or the dress clothes just seem to fit so well, and show off his usually very fit, trim, young body. Even if my head …
Read More »You don’t fall in love with the ‘outside bits’
I am not an expert on this and would prefer to see a reply from a member of the Transexual/Transgender community, but … ‘Sex changes’ do not happen overnight. Someone doesn’t just wake up in the morning and say ‘Oh Wait, I am a guy/girl.’ The fact of being transgender would exist before the relationship began and would therefore to …
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