{"id":313,"date":"2009-04-30T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:33:52","slug":"thursday-april-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me,<\/p>\n<p>Although I am a man, and a very muscular one at that, I do feel cheated that only women get to wear make up.\u00a0 Is it possible that I could get away with just a little concealer and a little mascara?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not into drag or anything, I just really want to look my best.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not even a metro sexual- well I wax some of my body hair and like to be well dressed, but it ends there.<\/p>\n<p>So, what do you think?\u00a0 Can I pull it off without compromising my sexual identity?<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Alpha Male<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dear Alpha Male.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your sexual identity has already been compromised by your desire to experiment with make-up.\u00a0 Also, you are a metro-sexual.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nothing to be ashamed of (in some social circles) it&#8217;s just something you should come to terms with.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A little&#8221; mascara on a man is a lot of mascara, there&#8217;s just no way around it.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know about concealer, but really what&#8217;s the point?\u00a0 There are a lot of things that men can do that women can&#8217;t- why don&#8217;t you try and focus on some of those things?\u00a0 You could wear an athletic cup to protect your genitals, you could lift heavy things over your head with little effort, you could drive with competency.\u00a0 Those activities might even help restore your wilted masculinity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sincerely,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poor Lucky Me<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Poor Lucky Me, Although I am a man, and a very muscular one at that, I do feel cheated that only women get to wear make up.\u00a0 Is it possible that I could get away with just a little concealer and a little mascara?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not into drag or anything, I just really want &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/thursday-april-30th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thursday, April 30th&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}