The Guardian ships Hendo/Jack then😏🙏 and they understood the assignment when it comes to profiling our sweet silly slut..
[quote] It was in May this year that we in Britain reached peak Himbo. Standing next to a board-mounted map of our island, stoical England Vice-captain, Jordan Henderson, beckoned over his teammate Jack Grealish to verify an answer to a quiz he’d taken part in. “I had to guess where you’re from,” said Henderson to Grealish. “I want you to put [a playing counter] where you’re from, on this map.” Grealish had strolled over with a puppyish grin, but it soon became clear that locating Solihull, Birmingham—where he was born—was beyond him. The host of the quiz prompted: “Originally,” as if speaking to an infant, or someone hard of hearing from the local nursing home, “where you’re originally from.” But Grealish remained dumbstruck, “huh?” Then he gestured to the map, turned to Henderson and uttered the immortal line, “what is that, England?”, while everyone around him collapsed in hysterics.
[quote] When Grealish was caught out, he didn’t sulk, bluster, try to save face, or get defensive – he laughed along. He’s happy because his mates are happy. He doesn’t care about looking silly on camera to millions of viewers, because he’s so confident in his popularity, and in the special skills he does possess: a) being one of the country’s all-time most expensive footballers, and; b) being able to break Instagram posting topless selfies in a jacuzzi to his 5.2m followers. Grealish, for all the mocking of his mental faculties, was once said by his former Aston Villa manager Dean Smith to be an “encyclopedia of football”. When this was quoted back to Grealish during a later interview, he blinked prettily and open-mouthed at the journalist from beneath his hairband, and with no self-consciousness asked: “A what? I dunno what that means.”
[quote] Grealish might be pretty stupid, but he is also stupidly pretty. This combination is what makes the archetypal himbo – a word coined by a Washington Post journalist in 1988, to refer to a male version of the bimbo (albeit without the sexist connotation). Back then, Arnold Schwarzenegger or Fabio would have been your classic himbos, but to be a himbo in 2022, having a great tan and a low IQ is not enough – you must also be entirely lacking in guile, free from jealousy and immune to bad vibes. “A himbo is handsome, muscular and not smart enough to manipulate or gaslight,” says Ashley Ogawa Clarke, the deputy editor of men’s style bible Mr Porter. “It’s an appealing masculinity without the threatening toxicity: a hunk with a heart, or a Love Island boy with fewer red flags.”
[quote] There have been some huge cultural shifts around toxic masculinity of late; now the time is right to rewrite the rules on what makes for a decent bloke. For decades, films and TV shows portrayed the archetypal nerd as heroic, a safe space for women who were being treated badly by bullying jocks. But these days nerds – with their warped “incel” message boards, sadistic startup mentality and mansplaining tendencies – are at least as toxic as any other guy, if not more so. The himbo acts as a counterpoint – a return to traditional masculine sexiness (muscles, tan, hunkiness), but with the more problematic aspects stripped out. Himbos are an oasis of simple, ego-free charm and largesse in an era where cruelty is at a premium. Himbos’ moment might also come from the way nerds have seized the mechanisms of power, and made the world so unfathomably complex that its workings can seem beyond the grasp of us mere mortals. Rather than try to solve impossible riddles such as climate change and housing bubbles, himbos have got it figured out—living in the moment, blissful in their adorable ignorance of the world’s many crushing woes. A spray tan, a warm and big but blindingly bleached smile, some neon garms, and an empty relaxed mind are one needs to go on.