In response to the Men and Sexy thread, a reader passed along this amusing excerpt from Mark Kingwell’s Catch
and Release (I express no opinion on the merits of the quote; I just think it’s well put):
Manly elegance is obviously a hard standard to reach, and en route we are likely to go astray. Cary Grant once said, “Every man wants to look like Cary Grant. I want to look like Cary Grant.” The cinematic version of Grant, the Grant icon, at once combines the virtues of style and manliness, of suavity and physical courage. . . . There are women of my acquaintance, maybe of yours, who claim to find Grant too “femmy,” but that bespeaks only a desire for rough trade that they should perhaps examine more closely. If Cary Grant isn’t man enough for you, there’s something wrong with your picture of manhood.
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