The Ken Doll

Have you ever met this guy?


It's OK to change your sense of style slightly or occasionally to look like the kind of guy that a girl might actually WANT to date (read fooling her into thinking you are better than you are). New shoes and shirt for a first date. We all do or have done it. We all dress in a way that will HOPEFULLY attract not only the other sex, but more precisely the kind of girl that we are actually looking for. So, if I'm a grunge punk rocker kind of guy and that's also the kind of girl I want to date. Then, I'm not walking around in American Eagle. You get the point.

Anyway, these small choices of clothing that represent who we are as a person is not what I'm talking about. It's that guy. You know the one. The guy that used to wear a baseball hat and jeans. He maybe even wore a jersey or two, but since he started dating that new girl....boy he's changed. All of a sudden, he's wearing v-neck sweaters, popping his collar, and generally looking like he belongs in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.

Yeah....that guy.

It's not OK to let yourself become her personal Ken Doll every day. It's not OK if you have to ask for approval on your "going out" clothes. And it's definitely NOT OK if you show up to watch a game at the bar with the boys in frickin pink (No pink is not your color. And no it doesn't prove that you are secure in your masculinity enough to wear it...and even if you THINK you are secure...we are not so sure anymore). And stop popping your freaking collars. It just generally makes you look like a douchebag from the moment you walk in.

Dressing up and looking good for a girl is one thing, but if she is picking out your "outfits" you have a problem.

Don't Be That Guy

Have you ever met "that guy"? Don't get me wrong, I understand that is a vague question. I understand there are infinite situations, and in each of those infinite situations there can be a guy that is acting contrary to the accepted social norms. Therefore, there are infinite numbers of "that guy" or "those guys" out there. So, of course you have met "that guy".

You know the type. The guy that walks his girlfriend's dog while the dog is dressed in a pink sweater and jewelry. The guy that would voluntarily miss the Super Bowl party because his girlfriend wants to watch "Chocolat". The guy that pops his collar in a Midwestern town bar. The guy that fake bakes. The guy that every guy loves to hate. The guy that walks into a bar, and you and your friends ruthlessly lay into him about his bug-eye sunglasses and v-neck pink sweater.

That guy.

We all hate that guy. So, I'm dedicating this blog to prevent many of you from becoming "that guy".