By the way, I'm not following an order with the exerpts.
Single since the age of 32, McHale, the ad exec who lives in Manhattan, can attest to the warm reception many women offer formerly married men. The women he dates are "15 years [older], 15 years younger, and anything in between. It's been...yeah," he says, recalling the years since his divorce with the misty-eyed joy of a middle-aged woman who got out from under a Neanderthal husband.
"These are my prime years," McHale says. "Every yearI'm happier with myself and my life. I've got a great career with a very good company, I'm highly respected, so right now is avery fun time for me."
Marc, 33, a film and music-video director in Toronto, kept his house in an arty downtown area of the city after his marriage ended a year and a half ago and began dating with the abandon of a 23-year-old. "I'm rebuilding the years I missed. The feeling of being able to sit on your couch at 11:30 at night and think, I feel like going out, and just going, and not having to answer to anyone-that stuff is stuff we take for granted when we're single. That's a great feeling."
And finding female companions to go out with has been made easier for guys like Marc and McHale by modern technology -some of which is rightly considered the domain of twentysomethings. "MySpace is the key to a single life." Marc says. "You wake upto a hundred girls telling you how hot they think you are, and most of them are like, 'Let's hang out.' It's unbelievable the amount of people, especially girls, that I've met." Sure enough, his MySpace comments board is littered with remarks from the women who number among his 6,000 friends, including one very friendly magazine model.
"You can see why these guys would be a desirable marketing target," says Mack, the ad-industry trend spotter. "This is a prime opportunity for companies trying to build brand affinity. These men are making their own purchasing decision without having to consider anyone else or compromise."
Single since the age of 32, McHale, the ad exec who lives in Manhattan, can attest to the warm reception many women offer formerly married men. The women he dates are "15 years [older], 15 years younger, and anything in between. It's been...yeah," he says, recalling the years since his divorce with the misty-eyed joy of a middle-aged woman who got out from under a Neanderthal husband.
"These are my prime years," McHale says. "Every yearI'm happier with myself and my life. I've got a great career with a very good company, I'm highly respected, so right now is avery fun time for me."
Marc, 33, a film and music-video director in Toronto, kept his house in an arty downtown area of the city after his marriage ended a year and a half ago and began dating with the abandon of a 23-year-old. "I'm rebuilding the years I missed. The feeling of being able to sit on your couch at 11:30 at night and think, I feel like going out, and just going, and not having to answer to anyone-that stuff is stuff we take for granted when we're single. That's a great feeling."
And finding female companions to go out with has been made easier for guys like Marc and McHale by modern technology -some of which is rightly considered the domain of twentysomethings. "MySpace is the key to a single life." Marc says. "You wake upto a hundred girls telling you how hot they think you are, and most of them are like, 'Let's hang out.' It's unbelievable the amount of people, especially girls, that I've met." Sure enough, his MySpace comments board is littered with remarks from the women who number among his 6,000 friends, including one very friendly magazine model.
"You can see why these guys would be a desirable marketing target," says Mack, the ad-industry trend spotter. "This is a prime opportunity for companies trying to build brand affinity. These men are making their own purchasing decision without having to consider anyone else or compromise."
I bet "Details" is a great magazine for those who choose to affect themselves with a media lifestyle. I suppose there is a multitude of articles where one could concern themselves with "details", maybe learn how to impress their peers, learn how society expects a person to conform, or perhaps even be stimulated by entertaining trivia. To each their own, but, don't you feel the slightest bit silly for being duped into puppeting this jibberish? Perhaps even swindled out of the cost of the magazine?
