There's a popular misconception today that women embrace sensitive, metrosexual men who spend at least two hours every day doing their hair, suntanning, and trying out expensive Italian-American underwear. Most television shows would suggest similar lifestyles for successful men. Combined with feminism, more and more men are figuring maybe they need to become emotional drag-queens or Armani employees to get chicks. A recent poll suggests this is all propaganda:

A British survey suggests women prefer "real men" with beer bellies and hairy chests to "metrosexuals" with tight shorts and manicures.

The survey of 5,192 women, conducted by Lion Bar Ice Cream, found 80 percent of respondents now consider metrosexual traits including hair straightening and frequent sunbathing to be turn-offs, The Sun reported Tuesday.

The poll also found one in 10 women questioned in the survey like the smell of beer on a man while a fifth of those polled said they are attracted to men with "a bit of body odor."

That seems to be a pretty shaky poll with a small sample crowd, but think about it: We've gone through centuries of evolution where men have hunted, gathered food, aggressively confronted other men to win status, killed random people who annoyed them, engaged in art, and generally aimed for brilliance. And just within a decade or so, men are suddenly to transform into sensitive feminine metrosexuals who believe in equality and lowest common denominator culture? Yeah, right.

Some might chip in here and say "Well, that might be true, but do you really think it's attractive to drink a lot of beer and smell sweat?" First of all, you need to think of the context. No one likes a fat loser with a beer belly, but emptying a few beers at a bar with a straight face spells respect, even among males. Similarly, if you're nervous in a public crowd and you begin sweating, you're going to smell fear, which naturally turns women off. Compare with running for an hour, then lifting some weights, and approaching a woman working out--your athletic odours will reek of power.

Secondly, doing any of this will be in vain unless you communicate confidence and assertiveness with your body language. Rush Limbaugh, while way too wordy, seems to get the point across when he's attacked by a gang of whiny females complaining about his weight and diet program:

They're just mad that I look studly. When you get right down to it, they're just mad that I look good. That's why they hate Sarah Palin, and now they can add my good looks and my studly behavior and appearance to all the other reasons that they hate me.

Well, to be honest, he kind of blows it by (a) tying all of this in with defending Sarah Palin and (b) honestly claiming he's hated for who he is. If he used some asshole techniques, like suggesting people actually fear his good looks and superior opinions, he'd come across as even more convincing. And that's all it really takes to advance in social circumstances, as opposed to being a sensitive, easily offended, manipulated metrosexual feminist.