Humans have been imagining words and phrases to categorize others by how they look since the advent of language itself. For men — and particularly fathers — two contemporary examples of this are ‘dad bod’ and the more recent interpretation of ‘father figure,’ both of which are...
Taking a decent profile picture is never easy, even for the most photogenic and tech-savvy among us. But those of us who were born into a world of camera phones and social media have a slight advantage over everyone else, including our dads, who have quite the...
In the past few years there’s been growing evidence — or at least, an increasing number of headline-baiting surveys — suggesting that men in the 2010s are increasingly fixated on their own appearance. The average modern male checks himself out in the mirror 23 times a day,...
For all the complaining about how much time we’re all spending indoors, you have to admit, it comes with some advantages. For one, it’s not like you’re going to get caught in the rain any time soon. For another, considering wrinkles and other skin afflictions are, in...
Holy [beeeeep]! I just saw a large hunk of balled-up shag carpet saunter across my living room! Oh phew, that was just my dog, Tucker, who, like me, has gone without professional grooming since the start of quarantine and now looks like a stray tumbleweed. Clearly, I...
Like probably everything else you had planned for the rest of your life, sports, too, have been cancelled by the coronavirus. Gone are the days when you could safely assemble the boys for a casual round of grappling, sweating and panting on each other while chasing a...
Although the strictest quarantine restrictions have been lifted in most, if not all states, it would be fair to say that life as we once knew it has not returned fully to normal. In many places, for instance, restaurants are still not allowed to run at full...
On the lengthy list of things you might be inclined to do after an exhausting day (sit on the couch; lie down on the couch; pass out on the couch), washing your face probably hovers somewhere near the bottom, if it made the list at all (it...
Having your mailbox perpetually flooded with letters addressed to someone other than yourself is a reality that almost everyone deals with at some point in life. When I first moved into my most recent apartment, I was receiving so many letters to so many different people that...
Despite many states and business reopening — at least to some extent — we should still be doing our part by staying home as much as possible (and certainly working from home if your employer allows it). But as you plunge further and further into quarantine, the...
There you are, standing in front of the bathroom mirror with your razor in your hand, ready to do the same annoying thing you’ve done (almost) every day since the last day of puberty: Shave your face. Considering that the average man shaves 20,000 times in his...
Us guys, we can put up with a lot of mildly irritating stuff: Hair that inexplicably grows on our toes (and ears, and out of our noses), shaving our faces 20,000 times (on average) in our lifetimes and, of course, a crotch area that, no matter how...