REMEMBER WHEN

THE members of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW spoke: they wanted real men.

They said they didn’t want a bar of today’s metrosexuals and the softer breed of ‘wimpy males’.

The comments came after rugby league legend Mal Meninga said he was outraged by a survey that found modern Aussie men preferred to moisturise and wear pink shirts than play football with their mates or own a shed.

The survey found only 5 per cent of all Australian men regularly played a game of football with friends, but 44 per cent cleansed with face wash, and moisturiser use was up 1 per cent.

Up to 1000 members of the CWA were at the Twin Towns Services Club at Tweed Heads for their NSW State conference, and they were there for more than tea and scones.

Members Jackie Cooper, Esma Pepper and Margaret Mathers, all from Shoalhaven Heads, said they were shocked by the survey results and said modern men needed to ‘grow up and get real’.

“Today’s men are definitely more sissy,’’ said Jackie.

”I can’t stand all these men with waxed legs and chests, I like a man to be a real man.

"All this metro(sexual) business is rubbish. It’s being a wimp really, and it’s supposed to be more of a women’s thing.

"Back in my day the men were into the pubs and footy but they still had manners and never swore in front of a lady."

Esma, 74, said she was constantly telling her three grandsons that the clothes they wore were terrible and that pink shirts were for girls.