Althouse: "The Club House has moved to make its office as 'male' as possible, with male doctors, male nurses, and male staff."

September 1, 2018

"The Club House has moved to make its office as 'male' as possible, with male doctors, male nurses, and male staff."

"Instead of florals and string music, his clinic hosts open bars, poker nights, and networking events to draw in New York’s plastic-surgery-shopping men."

From "Flatter Abs, Bigger D**ks: Male Plastic Surgery Goes Crazy/More and more men are getting work done. Here’s why" (Daily Beast).

25 comments:

Ralph L said...: Putting the butch in butcher.; 9/1/18, 6:20 AM
rwnutjob said...: As Elvis reportedly said of his weight gain: "It's a poor carpenter who doesn't build a shed to protect his tools."; 9/1/18, 6:53 AM
Ralph L said...: I've been trying for 50 years to hide my ribs, and the most common procedure for men is breast reduction? If you've got sagging pecs, chances are they aren't your biggest appearance problem. Maybe their suit coats are chafing.; 9/1/18, 7:02 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: They should put "men" in quotes when writing these things.; 9/1/18, 7:24 AM
Ann Althouse said...: @Ralph I think quite a few men have what look like a woman's breasts. Moobs. Being overweight is generally feminizing to a man and they should work to solve the overall problem, but I can see the special embarrassment of seemingly having women's breasts. It would be very disturbing (especially if they are so fat they can't see their own genitalia).; 9/1/18, 7:32 AM
MadisonMan said...: Would it be more cost-effective to see a therapist and learn how to accept your flaws? I wonder.

I cannot imagine spending money on something like 'Anal Tightening'.; 9/1/18, 7:41 AM
Ralph L said...: Can models deduct plastic surgery costs from their taxes? If so, appearances matter in other jobs, too.

Rent boys could write off the anal tightening, but what about lost revenue?; 9/1/18, 7:59 AM
Lnelson said...: Achievement without effort? It's the American way!

A side note: Last month I read that Guitar Center is in financial trouble. Some analysts blame millenials because it takes too much time and effort to learn how to play guitar.; 9/1/18, 8:04 AM
tcrosse said...: Penile augmentation and anal tightening seem to be working at cross-purposes.; 9/1/18, 8:07 AM
James Pawlak said...: Certaily, not a "She Shack"; 9/1/18, 8:14 AM
The Crack Emcee said...: Larry Nelson said...

"A side note: Last month I read that Guitar Center is in financial trouble. Some analysts blame millenials because it takes too much time and effort to learn how to play guitar."

Plus Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaataa didn't play guitar, so, since they - along with, maybe, the Art of Noise - DID create the blueprint for the future of music, no guitar.

Guitar Center reminds me of newspaper editors, not providing what people want, so they're going out of business and blaming us because they won't make different business/editorial decisions.; 9/1/18, 8:18 AM
wild chicken said...: A couple weeks to learn power chords, max.; 9/1/18, 8:25 AM
Lnelson said...: The Crack Emcee said...

...the blueprint for the future of music, no guitar.

That may be true, but you know better than most that the evolution of music is all about cross fertilization.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9hQumYtj8; 9/1/18, 8:49 AM
buwaya said...: All our kids play instruments, at least adequately.
This should be a social goal for well-raised children.
As for guitars, one of ours makes up for some of his generation in buying them.
He has about a dozen.; 9/1/18, 9:24 AM
Mr. Groovington said...: Ann Althouse said... (especially if they are so fat they can't see their own genitalia).

Is that ever the case? Surely fat guys can see their dick if they lie on their back. Imagine if it was a progressive thing, like you gradually lost sight of it. Oh man. And how do you groom? With a mirror?; 9/1/18, 9:29 AM
Mr. Groovington said...: MadisonMan said... I cannot imagine spending money on something like 'Anal Tightening'.

I appreciate it when white women invest in anal bleaching, if needed. Not necessary at all with darker Indian and black girls, very presentable as is. Usually pert and tidy as well, like a kitten.; 9/1/18, 9:35 AM
Birches said...: I watched a baby boy who was so fat his penis tucked into his rolls. I was saying I had never seen that before during a family gathering and my nurse BIL said it happened with grown men too. Yikes. The kid is not fat now btw, just a really fat baby.; 9/1/18, 9:39 AM
Alex said...: Re: Elvis. I can imagine in his obesity at the end, his penis buried in all that fat. Very sad. Google 'buried penis obesity' and you'll see what I mean. It's sad and gross.; 9/1/18, 11:00 AM
Tom T. said...: How is it legal to hire an all-male staff?; 9/1/18, 11:03 AM
Boxty said...: Larry Nelson: Guitar Center's problem is the $1 billion in debt from its leveraged buyout in 2007. It's the same problem that killed Toys R Us, Sports Authority, Payless Shoes, etc. Bad management will always find someone else to blame.; 9/1/18, 11:16 AM
Michael K said...: Being overweight is generally feminizing to a man and they should work to solve the overall problem,

I see kids who have lost 100 pounds to join the military. They often have enough fat in their groin to hide most or all of their penis.

The other day I saw a kid whose man boobs had, instead of disappearing as most do with weight loss, had drooped like an old woman's breasts. I suggested he might want to get them revised before going to basic training.; 9/1/18, 11:29 AM
stephen cooper said...: Michael K - in 1985 I went through that day where a couple hundred young men go to a building in some city (it's a government building, but none of us knew the difference between government buildings and other buildings back then) before getting their plane tickets to basic training - I have not thought about it for awhile - the doctor looked me over, did the normal quick exam, and then asked me how I felt - I said I am fine, a little bit of arthritis from Lyme's disease (I was one of the first thousand sufferers in the database) he said, "don't use the word arthritis, You're more or less ok, right", and I said, "of course I am ok, you're the doctor, I used the wrong word." I remember that like it is yesterday.

I wonder where that doctor got his start. He had to have been in his 70s at the time. For the record, it is a really unpleasant sight to see lots of people in their underwear - they gave about 100 of us at a time an exam. The only other thing I remember is some guy who did not know that if you are going to have to give a urine sample you have to have had, like, had something to drink that morning. I felt bad walking away from the room with the urinals with my little yellow cup of specimen urine full while he stood there, waiting and waiting. Well, like me he was headed for OTS and maybe right now is a 3 or 4 star general, I have no way of knowing.

Everyone I went to training with and who had a technical degree did all right in the next 20 years, those of us who were just tough enough to get commissioned but did not have a technical background or a pilot or navigator slot did not do that well on average, I know that 34 years later. I did fine, but it wasn't easy.

By the way, in 1985 there was not a single obese guy, and none who looked like he had been dieting and had recently been obese. Out of one or two hundred, if I remember correctly (which of course I probably don't. I have heard of picture perfect memory and I don't have it, not yet, anyway).; 9/1/18, 7:55 PM
Ignorance is Bliss said...: Flatter abs, bigger D*cks

Can they make mine as big as Christmas? I hear that is the new standard; 9/1/18, 7:58 PM
Jaq said...: people who are in relationships bringing their significant other,

“Make him as big as Christmas, Doc!”; 9/1/18, 9:07 PM
Michael K said...: I wonder where that doctor got his start. He had to have been in his 70s at the time. For the record, it is a really unpleasant sight to see lots of people in their underwear -

Your experience was like mine. That is not the way anymore.; 9/1/18, 9:40 PM