Ok I know I'm late to this party but I don't watch American Idol because, well, besides I don't watch TV I don't even live in America, I live in hot España olé!, so I always find out about this stuff on Youtube by accident 3 months later. So now I found out about Danny Noriega and, oh, loves!!
American Idol is bullshit in general if still damn entertaining but the day they kicked him out it became full rubbish, it killed it! But, truth is I think it's a good thing so he'll have the chance to be the next Jennifer Hudson and not just be part of the failed former season's stars. He is perfection. PERFECTION!
I was earlier catching up with popular gay news blog Towleroad when I saw a post about this guy who apparently is an important football player. I was refreshed and delighted to see the spotlight on a healthy young man and not your average steroids junkie with ridiculous muscles, bulging veins and scary six-packs.
Then I read the comments and, to my (not big) surprise, I spotted some like these:
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!! His body is nasty!!!!!"
"This guy is not hot, and his body is shit."
"Yuck, can't get into the GOP beefcake dudes, or in this case cake, since, I don't see any beef on this kid. More Tom Brady posts please, or tennis player, thanks :)."
"Sure, he's cute in a normal, straight guy kind of way, but he is NOT an underwear model. Sorry but underwear models are supposed to look like gym trawling body facists! It's called being a model. Models are supposed to represent the ideal. Like the David, classical Greek sculpture, yadda yadda yadda. And can we please quit the obsession with the straight guys already. It's nauseating. Give us some hot, gay boys and leave the straight ones alone. You never know what they're going to do."
"ZOMG He's like SOO hideous! I only find perfect people slighty attractive cause, ya know, Im a godly judemental queen."
etc. etc. And well, there were many that I'd agree with:
"You people saying "Ewww" are fucking crazy. This guy is hot, he's a sports hero, he's handsome and he has a body honed by actual athletic accomplishment, not narcissistic gym trawling. I dunno, I love looking at hot guys like everyone else, but this is getting stupid. The obsession with being totally cut -- which is unsustainable except for only the most obsessed -- is ruining sex."
"I think he is cute. It's nice to see a normal body instead of some guy who spends most of his life living in a gym. I suppose all the magazines has made us expect 6 and 8-packs as the norm now. Me, I like the natural look. Would rather have a normal looking guy than a gym-bunny any day!"
I've been thinking about writing this post for days and this thing just gave me the final push to do it. We alway hear about how wrong the female beauty standards are, with girls expected to be super skinny with big boobs, etc. but we don't seem to notice that male ideals, if not on the same degree, are also awfully wrong. At first thought you may say that the male ideal is a sportsman and that's a good thing, but the models we see and worship are beyond the sportsman, they're 20 and looking all buff like they're gonna explode. It's not healthy! Don't let them fool you, they are taking stuff to get that big that fast, that's not natural and I'm sick of everyone dismaying over body builders with alien six-packs, in fashion and everywhere else. You just have to look at any Men's Health cover. Are those men examples of a healthy men? I think they're repulsive! But apparently that's what's "hot" these days.
Now, I want you to look at this video:
SAD!
Oh and what about body hair? Apparently hair is nasty so men have to wax, shave and laser themselves to get rid of any hair even in their armpits. And yes, women have to do the same, but you can't compare women's body hair with men's. The real man is over, the plastic man is on.
Well I'm not a pro-caveman either, if you have hair in your back, laser it, all I'm saying is men shouldn't be ashamed of features that are innate to their condition like hair and balding. Here, some pics of gorgeous hairy men:
See? Hair doesn't make a guy cute or ugly! Key thing is not to let any defect make you insecure. To be attractive a guy should be smart, charismatic, nice, or any other thing that you have and can boost.
Now, having said all that, I'm maybe as shallow as the next blonde girl, It's true that when I'm at a club I'm looking for the cute, but I can tell you that I'm so over muscles and players, I'm in for guys I can learn something from, that mean good, that can listen and reason. Beauty is so disposable, so futile and empty. The other day I went to the hospital [I fucked my right foot by walking with smaller shoes than my size, and I'm talking about not torturing oneself for beauty!] and the doctor... I wouldn't have noticed him at a night spot, but he was so nice and appealing I would've fucked him right there! Seriously, he was so owning the situation, so secure, so opened.
Anyway, I know I'm not gonna change anything, mostly because nobody reads this blog, if my readership was half that of Perez Hilton we would be talking, but! I had to say it out loud and get it off my chest. So here I say it again:
Oh yesterday was so much fun it didn't seem like a day of mine. We did so many things, took cool pictures, I was so cute with my new vintage macro shirt by Versace Jeans Couture (i.e. Versace for poor people) which I found in the hottest vintage shop around and it was so sunny even though it's March.
That graffiti is the hit, no? Plus I saw the guys that did it while they were at it the other night cause that's just downstairs of a friend's home, and let me tell you, they were hot! Skater hot. I thought of taking a picture of them painting but they were oh so straight and I was looking oh so gay, so I was a bit shy about it.
Anyway, we went up the Miguelete , which is the tower of my village's cathedral (you know, the charm of living in Europe). I had never went up and it was to die! Kind of literally because the stairs are so narrow and endless and they get even narrower in the top so it's not a good idea if your claustrophobic, but we're not so it was fun and totally worth it cause the views are beyond what we expected and it was really great, even though you can't really get the sensation from the pictures.
Then we went to this really cool new place which is, attention, totally free, with free drinks (as in there's a fridge with stuff and you take it!), a Wii, two PS3s, computers with internet, WI-FI, music, and in the evening they even have waiters that offer you beer, wine, canapés, etc. and there are different activities each day, such as massages, tattoos, making handicrafts with stuff... you get the picture. Too good to be true? Well there's a limitation of course. Continue!
