why are SN fans so bitter about FM?

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Originally Posted by SisterNightroad

Lindsey doesn't simply have a mid-life crisis, he IS a mid-life crisis. He is the embodiment of the crisis itself, we don't know when he got it (maybe he's born with it?) but he never completely got over it.
He already had it in high school when he practiced with very successful outcomes the very virile sport of competitive swimming and posed proudly for pictures in swimsuit with his package in sight.
He kept on having it when he started with music and his masculine fro was accompanied with pornstar mustaches.
And when later in the 70s of the success he donned very low-waist jeans with open blouses that showed his manly rug.
And when between the 70s and the 80s he cut his hair and started being Maybelline's new testimonial.
And when in the 80s his curls started resembling pubic hair and he posed naked (!!!) for a magazine.
And now...he wears leather jackets and gels his hair to make it curlier. It's not as bad as it once was but I suspect he'll soon buy a motorcycle.

you know, while the first half of what you describe i think was probably normal for the time and environment, at some point he stayed stuck in the 70s with those widely open shirts. i always thought that was so weird when i first got into LB fandom - those completely unbuttoned shirts in the 90s and 2000s when everybody else left that particular fashion fad back in the 70s.

the other side of the coin is, and i may be completely wrong, but i do think Lindsey is on some level very insecure - which is weird for a person as successful as he is, but seems to be there. or maybe it's not that weird, maybe that's what many entertainers are in fact, driving them towards that need for outside validation to overcome their insecurities.

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

Erm, I don't quite buy the premise;
posing for photographs in speedos as a teenager, having a moustache along with 95% of men in the 70's, having a pubic-hair hair style...
Are they really the embodiment of mid life crisis?
If so, sh!t, I've been in denial my whole life! I need to buy a Yamaha.

....I'll collect my leather jacket on the way out.

hahaha, see you learn something every day!