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[Rich]

*Ahem*


How about this?: "I don't care what anybodys sexuality is." <-Period.

Taken out of context and therefore not valid

 

[Kraj]

You completely missed the point. My point is why does your original statement have to have the qualifier, "as long they don't hit on me"?

 

[Rich]

My point is why does your original statement have to have the qualifier, "as long they don't hit on me"?

Because I'm straight, that doesn't make me homophobic by the way

 

[Kraj]

So, because you're straight a gay man is not allowed to hit on you? It's beyond you're ability to deal with? You can't simply say, "No thank you, I'm not interested"?

 

[Groundrush]

Nah, you're just becoming Metrosexual

For some reason I thought the term "Metrosexual" referred to people that like to have sex in underground Tube Stations....

 

[ColinEssex]

Seems it's just bad juju to do grouping and labels at all. Don't we have enough division...

So why do you label me and Rich as "anti American" despite me keep telling you I'm anti the American warmongering don't-care-about-anybody-else government, and not the American populace?
By your reckoning that makes an American who is unhappy with the US government "anti American" - and I thought patriotism was very strong in the US, you know, like people have the US flag on a pole in their garden etc etc.

Col

 

[ColinEssex]

For some reason I thought the term "Metrosexual" referred to people that like to have sex in underground Tube Stations....

Silly question but has anyone in the UK ever heard of the word "metrosexual" before reading it in this thread? I've never heard it before.

Col

 

[Groundrush]

Silly question but has anyone in the UK ever heard of the word "metrosexual" before reading it in this thread? I've never heard it before.

Col

.......I thought questions usually have question marks at the end

anyway just googled "Metrosexual" and look what I found.

metrosexual (met.roh.SEK.shoo.ul) n. An urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
—metrosexuality n.


Example Citations:


At dinner the other night, my date listed the calorie count of the main entrees, raising an eyebrow at my chicken Alfredo selection after he had ordered a salad. I saw him check his reflection in the silver water pitcher three times. During dessert, he looked deeply into my eyes and told me he thought what we have together is very special. It was our third date.

It was then that I realized why my dating life has been as mysterious as the Bermuda Triangle since I arrived in Washington. This city, unlike any other place I've lived, is a haven for the metrosexual. A metrosexual, in case you didn't catch any of several newspaper articles about this developing phenomenon (or the recent "South Park" episode on Comedy Central), is a straight man who styles his hair using three different products (and actually calls them "products"), loves clothes and the very act of shopping for them, and describes himself as sensitive and romantic. In other words, he is a man who seems stereotypically gay except when it comes to sexual orientation.
—Alexa Hackbarth, "Vanity, Thy Name Is Metrosexual," The Washington Post, November 17, 2003



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


Notes:
A metrosexual is a clotheshorse wrapped around a dandy fused with a narcissist. Like soccer star David Beckham, who has been known to paint his fingernails, the metrosexual is not afraid to embrace his feminine side. Why "metrosexual"? The metro- (city) prefix indicates this man's purely urban lifestyle, while the -sexual suffix comes from "homosexual," meaning that this man, although he is usually straight, embodies the heightened aesthetic sense often associated with certain types of gay men.

Mark Simpson invented this term in 1994 (see the earliest citation, below), and it drifted slowly from one media source to another throughout the rest of 1990s and early 2000s. Then Simpson wrote another article about metrosexuals in the online magazine Salon.com on July 22, 2002, and the term took off. Since then it has been picked up by thousands of media outlets, has made numerous TV appearances, has spawned at least a couple of books, and has been dropped in untold numbers of cocktail party conversations. There is no escaping the metrosexual.

The second example citation gives Simpson's succinct description of the metrosexual type from his Salon.com article.


Earliest Citation:


The promotion of metrosexuality was left to the men's style press, magazines such as The Face, GQ, Esquire, Arena and FHM, the new media which took off in the Eighties and is still growing (GQ gains 10,000 new readers every month). They filled their magazines with images of narcissistic young men sporting fashionable clothes and accessories. And they persuaded other young men to study them with a mixture of envy and desire.

Some people said unkind things. American GQ, for example, was popularly dubbed ''Gay Quarterly''. Little wonder that all these magazines — with the possible exception of The Face — address their metrosexual readership as if none of them were homosexual or even bisexual.
—Mark Simpson, "Here come the mirror men," The Independent, November 15, 1994


Subject Categories:
Culture - Appearance and Grooming
Sociology - Gay and Lesbian
Sociology - Men and Women
Sociology - People


Posted on September 4, 2002
Last updated on December 12, 2003

 

[Rich]

So, because you're straight a gay man is not allowed to hit on you? It's beyond you're ability to deal with? You can't simply say, "No thank you, I'm not interested"?

I've never said it was beyond my ability to deal with it, I said it would be uncomfortable for me to have to do so

 

[ColinEssex]

.......I thought questions usually have question marks at the end

Meeeeoooow I thought quotes from elsewhere had to have quote marks round them

Col

 

[Rich]

anyway just googled "Metrosexual" and look what I found.

metrosexual (met.roh.SEK.shoo.ul) n. An urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
—metrosexuality n.

Ah, you mean kids with too much money in their pockets

 

[KenHigg]

So why do you label me and Rich as "anti American" despite me keep telling you I'm anti the American warmongering don't-care-about-anybody-else government, and not the American populace?
By your reckoning that makes an American who is unhappy with the US government "anti American" - and I thought patriotism was very strong in the US, you know, like people have the US flag on a pole in their garden etc etc.

Col

Once again, Col ole buddy o mine, I will try to put this as plainly as I can; Most of your posts concerning US government have an antogonistic even belligerent tone. Whether this is aimed at my government or me, in the end, I have to take the hit because it is my government. If you are unable to read back through your posts and see this, and maybe consider posing your concerns about our government in a little more considerate manner, then I'll continue to assume that you just like to jerk people around and wind them up.

 

[Rich]

Once again, Col ole buddy o mine, I will try to put this as plainly as I can; Most of your posts concerning US government have an antogonistic even belligerent tone. Whether this is aimed at my government or me, in the end, I have to take the hit because it is my government. If you are unable to read back through your posts and see this, and maybe consider posing your concerns about our government in a little more considerate manner, then I'll continue to assume that you just like to jerk people around and wind them up.

He does exactly the same to our government too
I've also noticed a sneering attitude towards our dear Queen from you too.
That's disgusting and has to stop

 

[Groundrush]

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Meeeeoooow I thought quotes from elsewhere had to have quote marks round them

Col

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[Groundrush]

Ah, you mean kids with too much money in their pockets

yes and mobile phones...

Ok so Iv'e actually mentioned "mobile Phone" in the Mobile phone section.

Go ahead........shoot me...

 

[ColinEssex]

Whether this is aimed at my government or me, in the end, I have to take the hit because it is my government.

Blimey! what a strange attitude you must be well battered Ken given the amount of people worldwide that hate and knock the US government. Its up to you if you take these things personally as the fall guy for your warmongering dictator - they're not aimed at you. I think when the film Fahrenheit 9/11 was shown on national TV here, it just confirmed what we thought about the US government and the Bush administration.

If people knock and slag off the UK government, we join right in - our government are a bunch of tossers too. (albeit the best of a bad bunch of tossers) If we can slag our lot off anytime then we do it.

May I ask if you have a union flag or a confederate flag in your garden? Personally I prefer the confederate one, its got better colours and a better design.

Col

 

[KenHigg]

Okie dokie - The circus continues then...

I feel I've done all I can
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[KenHigg]

May I ask if you have a union flag or a confederate flag in your garden? Personally I prefer the confederate one, its got better colours and a better design.

Col

Neither - If I had to choose, I'd probably have an American flag. Why do you want to know (you trouble maker )?

 

[ColinEssex]

Okie dokie - The circus continues then...

I feel I've done all I can
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. . . . . . . and a fine job you're doing taking all the hits about your government personally Ken, keep up the good work, there may be a medal in it for you. Is it the purple heart they give out like smarties if someone gets hit?

Col

 

[KenHigg]

. . . . . . . and a fine job you're doing taking all the hits about your government personally Ken, keep up the good work, there may be a medal in it for you. Is it the purple heart they give out like smarties if someone gets hit?

Col

Nah, just a little peace of mind knowing I didn't let some wise crack about America slip by unabated

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