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 [...]