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"Male grooming is obviously an ever-growing trend (it inspired an entire Morgan Spurlock documentary, *Mansome*, after all), but I must say that I never ran into all that many examples of it in my daily life\u2014until recently. Lately, it seems like every time I go into a salon there are at least a few rogue men getting their nails shaped, buffed, and on occasion, painted. And I'm not sure how I feel about it.\\n\\n\\n\\n                   \\n\\nI'm all about men taking care of themselves, make no mistake. But the other day when I was in the salon and trying to zone out, I suddenly felt like something was just...*off* with all the guys in the room. It seemed like an invasion of my personal space, insofar as such a public venue can be personal space. Normally the nail salon is somewhere I like to relax and not worry about people watching me, and because it's traditionally all female, you don't have to censor yourself when it comes to discussing inane things like the latest celebrity beauty blunder in whatever weekly you've chosen to flip through that afternoon. And that's a little difficult to do when a guy sitting in the chair next to me is talking about sports\u2014or worse, discussing his callouses. Ew.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n  The experience led me to think about all the times I've had manicures and pedicures either by myself or with girlfriends and bonded talking about things we would never want a man to hear. Should nail salons follow spas and separate men and women? Or am I just being old-fashioned?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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