Metrosexual - a post-feminist blurring ... ?
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Here I’d though the word metrosexual had finally vanished. Not at Oxford.
If you are a guy, willing to pay more than ten pounds for a haircut, and need more than a toothbrush and deodorant to get ready in the morning, then you could well be among this ultra-modern and trendy new brand of men. Indeed, ‘brand’ is an accurate term: the metrosexual truly is the advertiser’s walking wet dream. The stoic, unfashionable, rugged male didn’t shop enough, so he has been replaced by the clearskinned, smooth-faced, tousledhaired man of the Nivea adverts. …
Perhaps this signifies a post-feminist blurring of gender boundaries, or the increased consumerism and aestheticism of society. However, it may be far simpler than that. Rob Yates, a Teddy Hall rugby player who (correctly) asserts he is “definitely not a metrosexual”, has another suggestion: “Guys are just desperate. They’re trying to give themselves the best possible chance to get with girls.”
And there’s this old thing: Metrosexual, Pansexual, Bisexual?