To answer your questions, yes, "macho" disgusts me. Maybe it doesn't disgust others, but I don't like it. Nothing turns me off faster than that strutting, growl-and-beat-on-the-chest Alpha male persona. You know, funnily enough I was watching Eddie Murphy's Dr. Doolittle 2 yesterday, on DVD, and there is this scene where Dr. Doolittle is teaching Archie the bear and Lucky the dog how to (supposedly) be more attractive to females. He explains that women like their men to be Alpha, large and in charge, and he demonstrated how to walk and talk with what to me seems a very cocky and conceited attitude. I gagged. Not this woman! I think back to the 1990's and the original Power Rangers. Everyone was gaga over Tommy, the hunky athlete. Me, I much preferred shy, awkward, geeky Billy. Going back even farther, to the 1970's--Fonzie would NEVER have gotten me to run squealing into his arms by snapping his fingers at me! I probably would have gone after Potsie instead.

But I do agree that there should be a balance between logic and emotion, for both men and women.