While chatting with my hunky chiro yesterday, the subject of men and the lack of compliments they receive over time came up. As a beautiful woman, I get compliments all the time. I’ve gotten compliments on pretty much everything over the years, so much so that if no one says anything about how amazing my eyes are for a while, I assume their awesomeness has faded.

Men on the other hand react differently. They get one compliment and it changes their life. It can happen for the better. For example, a friend of mine once told me that some chick somewhere told him he was really hot, and he gained an insane self-confidence about his appearance that followed him for as long as I’ve known him. It can go horribly to. I knew a guy once who was singing Nirvana once and the guys in the room, as a complete joke, told him he sounded just like Kurt Cobain. He did not. He ended up taking singing lessons and going to school for band management. He works in a liquor store last I heard.

My biggest complaint about when men take compliments too far is when they think they look good without shirts. Gentlemen: back in high school, when that one girl whose hormones were so out of whack she believed you loved her, told you that you looked good without a shirt on, she may have been right. But once you hit a certain age or weight, dude, put something on.

I would say the percentage of men I see on a regular basis that look decent without a shirt on is maybe 5%. 5. I can guarantee you’re thinking you’re part of that group. You are not. 5%? Really? You think because you jog for 30 minutes once a week you’re buff? Put on a wife-beater or something.

When I was doing online dating, the amount of men who would put pics of themselves without shirts on was astronomical. Why, oh why do 50 year old men think we want to see that? Even if you’re on the beach, you still have man-boobs.

So please gentlemen, cover your nipples. You’re turning us OFF.

Tags: male attractiveness