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Working class men are the most attractive

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User3365237 · 17/10/2025 12:21

And there's no convincing me otherwise.

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anotherside · 17/10/2025 15:00

Well most can’t even decide on how to define working class. Are you sexually attracted to men on lower incomes or men whose parents were on lower incomes?

teacupzs · 17/10/2025 15:00

@Uricon2 doesn't do it for me physically but his character is attractive in the show

teacupzs · 17/10/2025 14:59

The shirt offsets it though. And the right watch

Not for me, if the arms are crap then it just doesn't work.

PigletJohn · 17/10/2025 14:55

surreygirly · 17/10/2025 12:32

Agreed
Although a rugby plyer body also helps !

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Thingyfanding1 · 17/10/2025 14:53

IAmThePrettiestManOnMyIsland · 17/10/2025 13:06

What? 😂

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I think we’ve got a few different interpretations of what the op means by ‘working class man’ here.
I had a vision of thin, slightly malnourished from childhood man with bad genetics eg thin lips eyes too close together, small head = small brain and not very bright. I realise this sounds absolutely terrible as I’m writing this and I’m probably very wrong 🤣 I apologise in advance.

Thepeopleversuswork · 17/10/2025 14:50

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/10/2025 14:44

OP, are you saying you wouldn’t want a piece of this?

Vom. Hard to believe he has fathered about six children.

MsWilmottsGhost · 17/10/2025 14:47

Where were all these handsome tradies when I was getting my house renovated then? The ones I got were balding middle aged men with pot bellies. Lovely blokes and impressive skills, but visually attractive? Sadly, no.

BauhausOfEliott · 17/10/2025 14:46

User3365237 · 17/10/2025 12:36

I'm talking about the rugged types on building sites etc. Intelligence and class are entirely separate.

But being a 'rugged type on a building site' doesn't equate to 'working class'.

If you mean 'men who do physical jobs' then say so. Plenty of working class men aren't manual labourers and certainly aren't 'rugged'.

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:46

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/10/2025 14:44

OP, are you saying you wouldn’t want a piece of this?

😂😂😂

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:46

😂😂😂

PersephonePomegranate · 17/10/2025 14:44

User3365237 · 17/10/2025 12:36

I'm talking about the rugged types on building sites etc. Intelligence and class are entirely separate.

Are you talking about the ones with their arse cracks on display and behaving like louts?

Obviously not all men on building sites or who do manual work behave like this, so even in the example you've given there will be huge variations that make someone either attractive or not. They don't all come from a machine!

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/10/2025 14:44

OP, are you saying you wouldn’t want a piece of this?

MsMarch · 17/10/2025 14:40

I don't think you're attracted to working class men. You're attracted to men who work in construction. Men who are physically fit and often physical. Who often have a sort of "can do", capable attidue. It is true that many men of this type are working class. And I think it's easy to understand the appeal.

But there are lots and lots of working class men who do not fit this criteria.

So perhaps you need to be more specific on what you like. Are you equally into working class men who work as Amazon delivery drivers, shelf stackers at Sainsburys, janitors? Do you like working class men who are porters in hospitals, double gazing sales men or mechanics? What about working class men who are gardeners or fitness instructors? Are those rugged enough vs working class men who work in factories or drive lorries?

Villanovas · 17/10/2025 14:35

@User3365237 I think you're fantasising about what these rugged builder types are actually like, the ones I know are in the main thick as pig shit and coked up/cannabis smoking idiots most of the time. The bog tops in our local are aparrently caked in it on a Friday teatime aka payday, they love a misogynistic rant too, can see why the fantasy exists ie easy on the eye, but in reality naaahh.

XWKD · 17/10/2025 14:34

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:15

You do in some establishments 😂

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😂I'm sure they're all in a little black book somewhere! 😂

Uricon2 · 17/10/2025 14:33

My current crush is Akram Salim from Dept Q. He wears an anorak, a buttoned up cardigan with shirt and tie and on occasion a cap with earflaps. He is, as far as one can tell, not terribly muscular under this outfit.

This however is not all there is to Akram, by any means. Anyone who's seen Dept Q will understand 😂.

tripleginandtonic · 17/10/2025 14:31

teacupzs · 17/10/2025 13:08

No thanks. Give me a crisp white shirt with the sleeves rolled up over that any day.

But surely it's what the arms look like under the shirt or is the actual shirt you like?

The shirt offsets it though. And the right watch

tragichero · 17/10/2025 14:30

AngelinaFibres · 17/10/2025 13:41

No , sometimes they manage the local Aldi. Happy to shop there don't want to marry the manager

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Is supermarket management a working class role? I would have thought middle class - it's mostly office work I imagine, and assume not badly paid ....

And why wouldn't you want to marry a supermarket manager, out of interest? I am not suggesting I am desperate to, but I wouldn't rule it out more than any other similar role - it's I assume pretty well paid, a nice steady job, and not arms dealing or drug running or something, is it?

Hellohelga · 17/10/2025 14:27

User3365237 · 17/10/2025 12:39

Tom Hardy (and dare I day it, Danny Dyer).

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Tom Hardy went to private school. His parents are artist and writer. Not WC.

HoppingPavlova · 17/10/2025 14:27

Tom Hiddleston looks like he'sd blow away in a light breeze

Yep, but just imagine him on the dance floor at your kids wedding😁. This may be influenced by the fact my DH can’t even shuffle dance🤣.

BeeKee · 17/10/2025 14:26

User3365237 · 17/10/2025 12:21

And there's no convincing me otherwise.

AIBU?

I'm attracted to money. I'd be with a working class man who owned his own business or had the potential to earn well.

godlikeAI · 17/10/2025 14:24

Men who (probably stereotypically) I identify as working class come with far too many tattoos and, past a certain age, red faces from drinking too much. Not for me. At all.

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:24

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/10/2025 14:21

Love Louis but can’t stop laughing at this 😂

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🤣

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/10/2025 14:21

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:11

Louis Theroux? He's about as sexy as a slap in the face with a demented haddock.

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Love Louis but can’t stop laughing at this 😂

Daygloboo · 17/10/2025 14:20

Mushroo · 17/10/2025 12:56

Not for me.

I can see the appeal for the Diet Coke advert window cleaner man, but irl I hate tattoos and vapes, which probably rules out quite a lot of tradesmen!

Ideal celebs would be Tom Holland or Tom Hiddleston.

Tom Hiddleston looks like he'sd blow away in a light breeze.