Blinking fools? The men who think shaving off their eyelashes will make them more masculine.
What could possibly go wrong with taking a razor to your lashes? Apart from irritation, infections and ‘eye boogers’, that is.
Unattractively short eyelashes? I’m finally in vogue! Steady on, hotshot. Are your eyelashes naturally short?
Unfortunately, yes. Then I’m afraid it doesn’t count. If you want true stubby lashes, you have to have them shaved off by a hairdresser.
With an electric razor? That’s right. A loud and terrifying electric razor, held millimetres from your eyeball. Some people prefer scissors.
I don’t think this is for me. Then you’re missing out. All the cool kids are doing it.
All the cool kids? Well, technically all the extraordinarily fragile men who think minimal eyelashes make them look a lot more masculine – but let’s go with cool kids.
And this is actually happening? Oh yes. A TikTok video advocating the practice went viral recently, and now the trend has been reported everywhere from Turkey to New Zealand. It’s definitely a thing."
First time I hear about this, what's your opinion?
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025/may/05/blinking-fools-the-men-who-think-shaving-off-their-eyelashes-will-make-them-more-masculine?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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like undue attention being paid to one’s eyelashes 
Beat me to it! 
Eyebrows singed off too…grew back weirdly…never gave two shakes.
More masculine?…barely.
Sorry couldn’t pass that one by.
Now let’s talk about shaving your balls with a very sharp ax….outside of very stupid, I see that as more masculine.
Which is probably why it could be viewed that way….
And lying outdoors getting sunlight on their perineum?
by nature to keep shit out of our eyes.
Sounds like a republican thing.
This trend is not quite on par with French kissing rattlesnakes, but Wow. Just wow.
How is this supposed to assuage their worries about their peckers?
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Some nutball, I seem to remember that he lived in a tiny town called Yacolt, Washington, actually tried to French kiss a rattlesnake.
He had brought home a rattlesnake from a trip to the Mojave desert. He was keeping it in his garage. In one of those infamous " hold my beer" moments, he decided to show off for some bro friend of his by French kissing the snake.
Naturally, it bit him on the tongue. 911 had to be called, and he was intubated as they life flighted him to a hospital. I seem to remember that he died.
I can also remember reading about another Darwin award contender who did the same thing. A woman who was an expert in poison snakes actually did an interview explaining that when snakes see the eyes of a larger creature looming towards them, that they will strike because that is the last thing they see before a predator kills them.
It is unbelievable to me that this sort of thing needs to be explained, but thanks to the worship of stupidity and the scorn of intelligence by the broligarchy, very sadly, it needs to be said.
Edit/ update. I googled this incident. It appears that the man merely kissed the snake (twice!). It bit him on his upper lip, not on the tongue. Maybe the French kiss idea came from a different article. Apparently, kissing poison snakes has been tried by a number of people, mostly men. I think for a while it was some kind of trend amongst Fundy Fanatics. I guess my mom was right. Some people only use their head for a hat rack.
Or at least they did when I was young. I’ve always had really nice long lashes and women would always compliment me on them and complain about what they had to do to achieve a similar look.
What the hell is wrong with guys today? Everyone is so weird. Or maybe I’m just old. 
…stuff in pursuit of enhancing/changing our appearance.
This thread is hysterical. I’m reading it while hiding under the covers of one of the hotel beds while my husband snores softly in the other one. I’m trying not to wake him up, but I’m having a damn hard time not snorting thru my nose -