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July 12, 2004 I spent a while this morning trying to picture my dream guy. The image was easy- coppery olive skin, dark hair, light eyes, toned frame, gorgeous smile… I was almost drooling. Then I asked myself what about his personality, his character? What would he be like? I kept thinking “sensitive, new age guy.” Meet the SNAG, folks, the new and improved version of the metro sexual. I hear women talking about how guys are too steroid pumped these days and how they don’t care enough about us poor fragile women. Wake up! We fought this long to make our vote count and have people take us seriously. Now we want the men to molly-coddle us again? I think not, but do we really want to be molly-coddling them? Back to the SNAG. What exactly is he? He is the man who reads you poetry, cries over the poor abused puppies at the SPCA, drags you to chick flicks and is…well…he’s not very manly is he? I’ve had a close encounter with one of these “SNAGs.” He charmed the life out of me and we had a great few days. Then, disaster struck; he cried over me hanging out with other guys when we had been dating for 3 days. 3 days! Then, when he realized that it wasn’t impressing me much (or at all for that matter) he decided to write me a love poem. I repeat 3 days! I couldn’t look him in the eye after that. When I want a boyfriend-I’d like to take a moment to emphasize the boy part-I prefer those that are masculine, thanks. I’ve nothing against these “sensitive new age guys.” For from it actually: they make wonderful gal pals. It’s hard to get someone to go for a chick flick with you these days; all my female gal pals have already seen all the newly- released chick flicks with their boyfriends (all of them amazingly sensitive and new age) and are chiding me about how I should be outfitted with a bracelet shaped like a guy who looks better than me. Is it so wrong if I want to be the girl in a relationship? Why is the SNAG so popular? Is it because we women can relate to them? Is it because they ease the pain of the razor-edged macho-men? Who knows? These guys are the holiday from the regular TRASH (totally rude and selfish hotties) that we clean up after on a daily basis. We’ve needed someone to shower us with attention badly for a while and if a SNAG is what it takes to set the TRASH straight then that is what we will do. The SNAG is the flavor of the week and nothing is going to upstage him, at least not until Mattel Inc. comes up with a new Ken for us girls to play with. Men are hard to come by these days. Given a choice, I’d take the TRASH any day…after all, one woman’s TRASH is another woman’s treasure right? ------------ About the author Ambreen Momin: Want to read more of her work? Visit www.fictionpress.com/~inzaniti or email: stardust_inc786@hotmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ |
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