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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlinking 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

BeerBarrelPolka
(1,836 posts)Every single right wing male hero they ever had, had eye lashes.
The Blue Flower
(6,009 posts)It ain't manly, men.
EYESORE 9001
(28,558 posts)like undue attention being paid to one’s eyelashes
Blue Owl
(56,647 posts)
Beat me to it!
Oopsie Daisy
(6,163 posts)flvegan
(65,129 posts)Well, there's the problem. Part of it anyway.
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)MiHale
(11,913 posts)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….

Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)to protect the eyes, I suppose shaving them makes no sense at all.
Ask someone who does not have eyelashes for some reason, perhaps because of alopecia areata, an auto-immune disorder that causes hair loss.
comradebillyboy
(10,794 posts)other hair on my body. I really do miss having eyelashes. Of course I miss having hair, but the lack of eyelashes is especially annoying.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,999 posts)It was more of a problem when they were little kids on the playground. More of a nuisance in adulthood. But no eyelashes is an unusual look.
Silent Type
(10,470 posts)Peacetrain
(24,113 posts)shaving their eyelashes to look more masculine?? Oh my gosh how insecure...
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)Oopsie Daisy
(6,163 posts)dameatball
(7,619 posts)bucolic_frolic
(51,381 posts)the men Barbie brows.
This is driven by the industry behind eyebrows, the razor, shaver, brow tattooing crowds. They shave them then tattoo them with temporary ink.
This is plastic urgency for profit.
Don't be a victim.
bamagal62
(3,995 posts)Then tattooing eyebrows back on is so strange. I get it, if something happened to your eyebrows that caused hair loss. But, shaving them off in order to tattoo them back on is just bizarre.
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)Norrrm
(2,360 posts)Wounded Bear
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niyad
(125,164 posts)Whn I first read this, I thought it was eyebrows, which is weird enough. .but. . .eyeLASHES??? The things that protect one's eyes?
Hekate
(98,530 posts)And lying outdoors getting sunlight on their perineum?
niyad
(125,164 posts)WHY have they not yet offed themselves???
Prairie_Seagull
(4,282 posts)by nature to keep shit out of our eyes.
Sounds like a republican thing.
Vinca
(52,361 posts)Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)Aristus
(70,392 posts)I've had long eyelashes my whole life. Not only has no one ever called me feminine-looking because of them, every girlfriend I've ever had has loved them and said they like the way they make me look.
I'm keeping my long eyelashes, frat-bros; go ahead and shave yours off; who gives a fuck?
NickB79
(19,976 posts)And I never had issues getting girlfriends in college.
A lot of these masculinity trends that straight men are embracing seem designed to impress other men, not women. They're reducing their attractiveness to women my trying to become alpha males.
Midnight Writer
(24,353 posts)I'll only charge a few hundred dollars and if it doesn't work out for you the first time, I'll do it again for free!
Cheaper than penile implants, and easier to show off.
niyad
(125,164 posts)marble falls
(66,989 posts)gay texan
(3,028 posts)love_katz
(3,104 posts)



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?
niyad
(125,164 posts)love_katz
(3,104 posts)Last edited Tue May 6, 2025, 08:23 AM - Edit history (1)
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.
Prairie_Seagull
(4,282 posts)every time I think of your post.
Needed this, this whole thread really but thanks love_katz.
Maru Kitteh
(30,368 posts)option for eyelash maintenance. Apart from a chainsaw maybe.
Yes, those are your choices. 1) OG razor blade 2) chainsaw 3) BE A WOMAN.
customerserviceguy
(25,229 posts)It takes advantage of the fact that if you can get one guy to to a stupid thing, you have a much easier chance of getting his friends to do it, too. And men have had that tendency for a long time, otherwise, there would have never been Jackass movies.
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)I'm not a big fan of tic-toc either. So many stupid stuff going on there.
customerserviceguy
(25,229 posts)Chinese spy software trying to get people to do stupid things. I don't use any social media (except for You Tube to listen to NPR Newshour every night) but Tick Toxic is the worst!
Rob H.
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RJ-MacReady
(603 posts)Thr better off we will all be. Sorry but Gen Z will have to get over it.
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)rictofen
(251 posts)Well that settles it.
BlueTsunami2018
(4,485 posts)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.
Dave Bowman
(5,453 posts)ecstatic
(34,851 posts)SMH
And it seems—this fad mentioned—that men/males taking to this are much more concerned with how men see them, as opposed to how women see them. WTF?
Iris
(16,499 posts)struggle4progress
(123,773 posts)then bring kegs of beer to everybody at the shooting range
REAL men die young
3catwoman3
(27,132 posts)…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 -