Not long ago, the biggest reason for a girl to be attracted towards a guy was the in infallible manliness that he emitted wherever he went. Indeed, the macho man reigned supreme in the hearts of those swooning females who were on the lookout for the perfect package of Adonis and Hercules fused into one. [...]
Mark Simpson, a British and outspokenly gay social “commentarist,” first published the term in a 1994 article called “Here Come The Mirror Men,” which ran in Britain’s Independent.
In a Salon.com article entitled “Meet The Metrosexual” (July 2003), Simpson said, “old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, un-moisturized masculinity was being given the pink slip by consumer capitalism. The old [...]
David Beckham is the biggest metrosexual in the world simply for the fact that he loves himself. He loves being looked at and because so many men and women love to look at him too, it makes him the ultimate meterosexual. Some might even say the Godfather of Metrosexuality. He’s the future, but also a [...]
Metrosexuality has a cult like following within the confines of Hollywood. Films like “Fight Club” and “American Psycho,” “Spider-Man” and “Sex and the City,” exploit and/or negotiate the anxiety created by metrosexuality’s impact on masculinity while of course smoothly integrating all of the advertising techniques used to recruit an army of young men to follow [...]
YES
Tony Blair
Michael Portillo
Ewan MacGregor
David Beckham
Pierce Brosnan
David Bowie
Oliver Letwin
George Clooney
Charles Saatchi
Justin Timberlake
Melvyn Bragg
Vittorio Radice
Guy Black
Thierry Henry
Andrew Billen
NO
Gordon Brown
Iain Duncan Smith
Russell Crowe
Jonny Wilkinson
Sean Connery
Keith Richards
David Davis
Tom Cruise
Damien Hirst
Eminem
Jonathan Ross
Philip Green
Alastair Campbell
Paul Gascoigne
Microwave Man
MAYBE
Michael Howard
Robin Cook
Colin Farrell
Michael Owen
Roger Moore
Mick Jagger
Tim Yeo
Ben Affleck
Martin Creed
Damon Albarn
Michael Parkinson
Richard Branson
Godric Smith
Ryan Giggs
Richard Morrison
Though there are now many words to describe it, forever and always, to most people only one word says it all: metrosexual. What is it? Well, a metrosexual is normally defined by the following characteristics:
• a modern, often times single man who is in touch with his feminine side
• [...]