As I understand it, Mark Simpson invented the term in 1994 in a piece he wrote for a British magazine. The term was used off and on for a few years but never with any great popularity. Over the summer and fall, it was used repeatedly on the Mike and Mike show on ESPN Radio (where I first heard the term) and then South Park used it in the fall, igniting the media’s fuse about another buzzword.
As for the term “metrosexual”, don’t get all angry about it being another stereotype and all that jazz; it’ll be worn out and dead by springtime.
Lord, do I hate this expression. What does personal style have to do with sexuality? I like to fuck guys. I like to fuck girls. That makes me bisexual. That is UN-FUCKING RELATED to the hair products I use.
I once heard someone point out that James Bond would be a metrosexual. It’s true. Having some class doesn’t have anything to do with sexuality, and speaking as someone with an “alternative” sexuality, I’m really sick of people acting like semi-positive stereotypes are totally acceptable. 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.
I don’t care so much about the stereotype. It’s stupid, yes, but not hurtful enough for me to get all het up about.
I do care about how painfully idiotic the word is. It just doesn’t make any sense. Like someone else mentioned, it has nothing to do with sexuality, so what the hell? When I first heard the term I thought it was referring to like, faux-bisexual guys who are ambiguous! and shocking! and fashionable! That makes more sense a little more sense. But no, apparently not. It’s all about clothing and hair products and shit.
(Okay, maybe my priorities are a little messed up.)
I think some of you are taking the term much too seriously. It’s a fricking Sniglet. And sexuality does have something to do with it. It’s hinting that behaviors that might cause someone in Hicktown to question someone’s sexuality wouldn’t draw the same suspicions from sophisticates in Big Town. If anyone should be offended it should be rural and suburban-dwelling Liberals.
BTW, Christian Bale’s character in American Psycho gets my vote for poster boy of the metrosexual. He’s not remotely effeminate in dress or mannerism but has a morning facial routine that rivals those offered at Canyon Ranch.
I use hair product,
I moisturize,
I’ve got more than 4 pairs of shoes
My hairdresser costs more than $40
I wear nice boxer shorts
I like to read classics
Out of interest which one of those makes me a wuss, or somehow affects my hunting/outdoorsman skills?
OK, you my be an exception to the rule. But I had a friend who thought he was a big outdoorsman and he could not handle going on a hunting trip with me. He had to have his moisturize, and other sissy stuff. Moisturizer is ok if you have desperate need for it. Like a rash or something. He could not even go hunting without fixing his hair. Now that’s a wussy. I don’t mean to a fend you directly. But I have meet other people like this and there all the same.
The hunting shack we stayed in was not a hotel. It was a shack with wood stove, and fire place to keep the place warm. It did have water but no water heater.
I got 10 out of 12, so maybe there is something to be said for stereotypes.
*Bullshit. I’ve spent over 10 nights this year camping. 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. The labels on the underwear in my drawers and the lack of hair on my chest haven’t make me a “wussy”.
That’s camping of the living-under-canvas variety, not prancing about nightclubs in shiny shorts.
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Chill, Jervoise
I am just saying from my experience, the people that I have meet that would score a 6 or higher could not have handle it.
So you say you did this stuff, that’s cool. Sounds like fun to me.
I don’t see what’s sissy about moisturizing. I got into that habit when I worked offshore, where your skin was exposed to either strong cold winds or fairly aggressive chemicals such as drilling muds and other nasties. Moisturiser and barrier cream were second nature to the people out there, as otherwise you faced constant bouts of acne, rashes or cracking skin. Some of my friends who worked the fishing boats had similar experiences - hell, I can remember us arguing the odds over which moisturiser worked the best during a pub crawl. We were boathands and roughnecks, as supposedly manly a job as you’ll ever find, arguing that such and such a barrier cream was no use as you had to top it up every hour, whereas another cream was no use as the bottle became prone to shattering below -5.
Nowdays I work safely behind a desk, where the only factor damaging my skin is air conditioning. Even so, I still moisturise every day, just after shaving. It helps keep my skin in ok condition, and hopefully will reduce wrinkles as time goes by. I just don’t see why such a basic health measure should be counted as “wussy”.
That would come as quite a surprise to my (very heterosexual, thank you) Dom. (Who is also, I might add, very butch for a metrosexual 
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