[UA] [OT] "Metrosexuals"

[Hammons, Jade]

	"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend,
living in or within easy reach of a metropolis -- because that's where
all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be
officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial
because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure
as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling,
waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract
them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're
pretty much everywhere." 
	"For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed,
unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer
capitalism. The stoic, self-denying, modest straight male didn't shop
enough (his role was to earn money for his wife to spend), and so he had
to be replaced by a new kind of man, one less certain of his identity
and much more interested in his image -- that's to say, one who was much
more interested in being looked at (because that's the only way you can
be certain you actually exist). A man, in other words, who is an
advertiser's walking wet dream."		

	- Mark Simpson, British Journalist, 1994. The originator of the
term metrosexual and his definition of same.

Jade Hammons
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be
normal." - Albert Camus
"I can also see it exploding into a dozen sucking fragments." - Greg
Stolze




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Subject: Re: [UA] [OT] "Metrosexuals"


You know, it just puzzles me that people talk about "metrosexuals" --
men
who dress well, understand wine and food, have great hair and aren't
afraid
to get a pedicure -- as if they're some new phenomenon.  They've been
around for decades.  They used to be called "Italians."

-G.

"These hardhat deconstruction-workers harass stories as if they were
gals
passing on the sidewalk.  They yell out stuff that's not only obnoxious,
but completely bizarre and impenetrable.  It's like they yell: 'Hey,
check
out the pelvic bio-mechanics on that babe!  What a set of hypertrophied
lactiferous tissues!'"
		-Bruce Sterling

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