Metrosexuals

[Candyman]

I saw a blurb in Entertianment Weekly about Metrosexuals. Straight men living in cities doing "gay things" like getting pedicures and drinking manhattans.

 

OK-I'm Bi, live at the Jersey Shore, don't get pedicures but drink manhattans in the winter and vodka and tonics in the summer.

 

So what does that make me?.........be nice boys!

 

I'm so confused--how about a big group hug and kiss and maybe a little feel!

 

 

Candyman

[Barry]

>I saw a blurb in Entertianment Weekly about Metrosexuals.

>Straight men living in cities doing "gay things" like getting

>pedicures and drinking manhattans.

 

Candyman....you just go and do anything you want. These sexual identity labels are getting fucking ridiculous. I would have thought "Metrosexual" would be someone who likes to fuck large cities or mass transit systems. That would limit it to politicians.

 

I've never had a pedicure and hate manhattans. My father loves them but I stick to beer or wine.

 

Reminds me of something that happened a few years ago in my prior life. I was sitting in a collegues office chatting when a newly hired IT guy knocked and came in to introduce himself.

 

He extended his hand to the manager I was with and said. "Hi, I'm William the new network admin and I'm gay" Showing absolutely no shock, Sheri stood up, extended her hand and said..."I'm Shari and I'm heterosexual, married, have 2 kids and drive a minivan. Are you here to work on the gay aspects of our network?"

 

Barry

[Rick Munroe]

>I saw a blurb in Entertianment Weekly about Metrosexuals.

>Straight men living in cities doing "gay things" like getting

>pedicures and drinking manhattans.

 

It actually has nothing to do with sexuality. According to http://www.wordspy.com (a website "devoted to recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance"), the definition of metrosexual is:

 

A dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle.

 

I think it's a great new word precisely because it describes a type of male that is very much in existence in today's urban culture, without defining him as either straight or gay. It also explains why, as Devon recently posted in his diary, your gaydar can get totally screwed up.

 

"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."

—Mark Simpson, "Meet the metrosexual," Salon.com, July 22, 2002

[axebahia]

>"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."

>—Mark Simpson, "Meet the metrosexual," Salon.com, July 22,

>2002

 

 

Why were lawyers left out?

[Lewis H]

Lawyers? One would think that that was self explanatory!

 

Yeah, Metrosexuality was a term I first heard a year or two ago, in the context of straight men fearlessly in touch with their gay sides, most overtly their vanity, style and grooming. It became a sense of social urbanity so developed that labels such as gay and straight seemed pretty much immaterial. In fact, the appreciation of how men looked (which one would term as a gay trait) were merely extensions of their own vanity, albeit verbalized/demonstrated externally through comparison with others.

 

Personally, I love my metrosexual male friends (I think it seems to apply mostly to guys), although it tends to drive my gaydar mad with hopeful suspicion!

[bigguyinpasadena]

I was at a newish club in Hollywood last night CINASPACE,and a group of 4 young men came in looking like they had gotten their fasion cues from Brian on QAF.Distressed jeans(the acid wash of the 00s?)long sleeved dressy white shirts(very fitted at the waist -natch)and sunglasses(on two-and this was at 8:30,inside!)My friend-The Ventura Vixen-said look at those 4 cute queens and left to have a smoke.I looked around me and noticed several other guys dressed just like this-must be "THE" look.Thing is,all 4 of theese guys were acting like frat boys and flirting with the waitress!I assume they were straight.

Well,I would rather queers would be the fashion icons(again)than the Hip Hop gangsters of a few years ago.But how do we know who is playing for our team?

[FrancoDiSantisxxx]

Drop Your Pearls

 

>Well,I would rather queers would be the fashion

>icons(again)than the Hip Hop gangsters of a few years ago.But

>how do we know who is playing for our team?

 

Wear something very, very tight and no underwear and show a pronounced basket. March back and forth between the sunglass wearing set and see who gets whip lash.

 

If that does not work, come back the next night wearing the tightest daisey dukes you can find, ask the waitron for a fresh glass of water, walk next to their table, sit down nearby, patiently but promptly unwrap the bar of Zest in your handbag, drop it in the water, look at your wrist watch for precisely twenty five seconds, spill the soap out and bend over and pick it up.

 

If one of them reaches it before you do, you know they are gay.

[Barry]

>It actually has nothing to do with sexuality.

 

Thanx Rick. That certainly clears it up. We need more words that have nothing to do with their component parts. It would make life so much less confusing.

 

Barry :*

[Candyman]

Wow Rick-I never realized just how serious and intelligent you could be. And all this time I thought that from your picture that you were just another pretty face. ;-)