# "Metrosexual" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 4, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040 "2003-12-04T22:55:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![GaterMouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GaterMouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaterMouth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/41 "2003-12-05T08:51:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GaterMouth \* > \*\*OK, Moisturizer is ok if you have desperate need for it. Like a rash or something. \*\* I Quote my self here. Chill people ---
**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/42 "2003-12-05T09:00:57Z")
I am SCUM (sensitive caring urban male) If you like common sense things and are a guy (remember there is a difference between guy and male) this site will be a great exploratory journey. Keep in mind, the Euphoria link is a satirical slant, written by the Mayor’s production engineer (Kelly) > **[Garage Logic – GL Podcast | Anything that needs to figured out, can be...](https://garagelogic.com/)** > > GL Podcast | Anything that needs to figured out, can be figured out in the garage ---
**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/43 "2003-12-05T09:03:13Z")
Be sure to check the link to the GL lexicon, if you don’t get a kick from these, you’re a Metrosexual. BTW, if someone lives in a rural area and wears special boxer shorts, lather the OIl of Olay, carries a mirror, etc what is he called? ---
**Author:** ![GaterMouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GaterMouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaterMouth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/44 "2003-12-05T09:09:03Z")
HAY SeekingTruth Whats whit the link.😕 Looks like some adverting to me ---
**Author:** ![GaterMouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GaterMouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaterMouth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/45 "2003-12-05T09:13:10Z")
with ---
**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/46 "2003-12-05T09:22:57Z")
no Gator, not advertising, just a link to anyone that wants to check it out. I like links to sites from Dopers, they’re usually stuff I’d never find on my own and they’re generally informative/entertaining. Don’t want to check it out? Don’t click. Won’t bother my quality of sleep tonight ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/47 "2003-12-05T14:40:19Z")
I didn’t take the test, but am sure I’d qualify: I regularly attend the symphony. So what? I like good music, and my wife looks fabulous in a gown (I look pretty good in a tux, as well). I use moisturizer. So what? I don’t want chapped hands or skin. It hurts. I can cook really well (and not just grilled cheese sandwiches). So what? Good food, good wine (yes, I know how to order wine), and good conversation are all simple pleasures. I have nearly 20 pairs of shoes (with shoe trees). So what? I take care of my belongings (shoe trees make the shoes last longer) and have have shoes to wear with different suits, or for different circumstances. I pluck my eyebrows. So what? If I didn’t, I’d have a uni-brow and that looks ridiculous. My wife doesnt’ like it and neither do I. I have alot of clothes. So what? I can dress myself and know what looks good on me. I want to look my best - who doesn’t? I know how to decorate a room. So what? Who doesn’t want to be in comfortable, nice looking surroundings? I also drive a pickup truck, regularly operate a chainsaw, can change the oil and spark plugs in the truck, fish (yes, I clean my own fish), hunt (not so much anymore, but sometimes I still go squirrel or rabbit hunting and clean and cook what I kill - usually I fal asleep sitting at the base of the tree), do all the repairs around the house (unless I know I can’t - then I call a professional. They need the work more than I need the aggravation), watch baseball (go O’s), and, if needed, can butcher a steer, fix a hay bailer, and dig post holes (you do have an auger, don’t you - I don’t do that shit with post hole diggers anymore). My point is - labels of any kind tend to miss a tremendous amount. That’s why I don’t subscribe to labels and couldn’t care less whether anyone thought I was heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual (DING DING DING - we have a winner), or metrosexual. I’m just a guy. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/48 "2003-12-05T15:00:50Z")
Now that “metrosexual” has been used as a source of lame jokes during a recent run of “Mallard Filmore” and has even turned up in bad humor columns in my local paper, I think we can declare the term has hit cultural overload and is on life support. I first heard of “metrosexual” in a Sunday NYT article earlier this year around the time _Queer Eye For The Straight Guy_ debuted. It’s just another cultural or fashion blip in pop culture before the next one comes along. Just like the whole “wigger” nonsense; the fratboy attitudes, shitty tattoos, and crooked mesh ball caps of Ashton Kutcher and the “Jackass” set; or teenage girls wearing cheap tacky gold necklaces with their name or “#1” hanging from them and neon colored belly shirts with logos like “Porn Star” or “Hottie” on them. ---
**Author:** ![lucwarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@lucwarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucwarm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/49 "2003-12-05T15:09:44Z")
I agree that it’s a dumb word. As others pointed out, ‘metrosexuals’ have been around for hundreds of years. “Fop,” “Dandy,” and “Dapper” are adequate to describe the phenomenon. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/50 "2003-12-05T15:24:28Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by pkbites \* \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pizzabrat \* > **It’s just old-fashioned _fopism_** > > 😛 > > I wonder how many people had to look up the word _fop_ to know what you were talking about! \*\* :: **Rez** quietly raises her hand:: Ummm, me. But now I have a new word! 🆒 And **Jervoise**? [QUOTE] \*\*\*I’ve gone five nights hiking carrying all my gear and food, without washing or shaving. I’ve spent four nights on the ocean in a sail-boat–with no fresh water for showers or a proper toilet. I’ve walked up a mountain, waded through swamp water and hiked under hail. \*\*\* [QUOTE] Dude, that sounds fun and all, but come on - it’s time to shower, dammit! We can smell you over here!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/51 "2003-12-05T18:04:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Michael Ellis \* > \*\*Screw the pasture! Take it out behind the woodshed and shoot it. \*\* If you did screw the pasture, would you be a meadowsexual? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/52 "2003-12-05T18:44:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jackelope \* > \*\*I’d never heard this term until that recent episode of South Park, and I think the only place I’ve seen it since then was in the indie section at the video store. \*\* I hadn’t heard it until I saw Leno interview the Fab Five from “Queer Eye”. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\*I scored a One on the quiz. I read Classics every now and then. \*\* I scored a One…because I need to use hairspray whenever I head out the door. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/53 "2003-12-06T00:57:21Z")
Best I could do was 2 out of 12, and that was by saying that I moisturize daily when I don’t. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with moisturizing. It helps maintain a youthful appearance, and with all we hear about discrimination against older workers in the corporate world, maintaining youthful appearing skin is worth doing. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/54 "2003-12-06T01:47:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucki Chaarms \* > \*\*Queer Eye is a fucking minstrel show and self-professed “metrosexuals” make me want to puke. Fuck who you’re going to fuck, wear what you’re going to wear and get over yourself. > \*\* Agreed. You know, I’ve seen gay domestic disputes on Cops. They weren’t exactly fashion shows. Torn, beer-stained t-shirts tended to be the norm. Some straight people like to dress nice. Some gay people like to dress nice. Everyone else is a slob or somewhere in the middle. How does this relate to sexuality? Hell, to be honest, I think most of the clothes worn by the “fashion expert” on Straight Eye are downright ugly. My wife agrees. I didn’t bother to take the quiz. As someone who buys his clothes at Wal-Mart and Target and doesn’t even use shaving cream, let alone moisturizer, I already know what I’m going to get. ---
**Author:** ![Slainte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Slainte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slainte)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/55 "2003-12-06T03:03:26Z")
[Even Howard Dean is trying to get in on the trend](http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/30dean.html) :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040/56 "2003-12-06T03:41:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Slainte \* > \*\*[Even Howard Dean is trying to get in on the trend](http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/1003/30dean.html) > > :rolleyes: \*\* Wow, I never thought someone could _completely_ lose any chance of getting my vote so easily. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/metrosexual/217040.md?page=2)