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Monday 8 July 2013

Blog 135: What A Super Man!

This is a letter I wrote, and actually sent, to Henry Cavill, the actor who played Superman in the latest Man Of Steel movie.

Dear Henry Cavill:
Hello Mr Cavill! My name is Mike Pasquale, and I’m just a person really.

I’m writing mainly to thank you. I’ve had a hairy chest for some time now, and it’s been ever so difficult going through life with it. A lot of fashion nowadays relies on men being very skinny, with little or no facial hair and certainly no more than a ‘treasure trail’ in terms of torso hair. The ordeal I’ve had to go through, endlessly buying t-shirts designed for very tall and scrawnier chaps, and the sheer social pressure to wax my lovely tummy-forest; it’s been very challenging.

I always knew that given time, the chance for more hirsute gentlemen to have their moment would come. The generation of girls who fancied Sean Connery has long ago grown up and got married, and I’ve grown up in the era of girls who instead chase Robert Pattinson and other similar people. Don’t get me wrong, they are very good looking fellas, but it makes it very hard for people like myself to join in with the fashion when I’d have to wax, and frankly, I don’t want to.

And so I want to thank you, as I believe you may be the figurehead of a new era which will end in a better world, where men with dense forests emblazoned upon their chest, like an S standing for Hope, will be held up as something for others to strive towards. Now that Superman himself is a hairier gentleman, how could anyone hold contempt for men like me, with our curls all over.

Well done for Superman, I thought you did very well in the movie, and you came across both very manly and also very super, which is ideal for that character really.
Sincerely, and thanks again!

Mike Pasquale


P.S. If you could do the next sequel and also be a bit overweight, not fat, just podgy, then that would also help me out a lot. Although, I’ll understand if that’s a bit trickier.

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