Metrosexuals

[serenity]

So, Sunday morning, while my mom was chatting with one of brother's friends, she noticed his eyebrows were done. Done in the sense that it had a 'just waxed' look. Sunday afternoon was spent reassuring my mother that the world has not indeed gone mad. Needless to say, she had a hard time understanding the concept of metrosexual and how its different from being gay.

Whats your take on it? I just think its a reflection of the fact that the fashion world is no longer focussed on women and as more designers cater to men, men would be more fashion concious. Some would inculcate the entire 'look', which would include groomed brows.

[Somebody007]

Men in today's society are alot more conscious about their looks, personality, how others view them and so fort.....and the media has not only created this perception of masculinity, they have enhanced it. If you notice as well, there are men's magazines which talks about fashion, what men should wear on special occassions etc....even if you go to the groceries and pharmacies....you have special soaps, shampoos and other 'skin' products designed for men.

The whole concept of masculinity has been revolutionising......but all that started I believe from the family and the fact that women in alot of families have now taken over as the main breadwinner of the household, leaving men displaced and having to change the 'male' ideals.

[vaio]

this is a lot more common in younger men, and i agree with 007, the whole ideal of the male concept is changing. It is more acceptable in the younger generation as well, my mom wld also have the same reaction as your mom did but i guess for us its just natural to see these things.

[Sumana]

Man i have such a weakness for metros....Mom thinks nothing about it, she's like that's ok they look nice and properly groomed...but yeah...total weakness for metros :)

[sheppy]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:

[serenity]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:

:lol:
Yeah, u crossed my mind when I started the thread. :D

[Sumana]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:


But metros are uber sexyy!! so u shud be happy for the label!!

[bluenote492000]

I’m all for a guy taking care of himself but if he takes longer that I do getting dressed to go out then he’s entered the creepy zone. Good Lord imagine sitting on some guy’s couch waiting for half an hour while he primps. There’s only so much metro I can stand.

[sheppy]

but ummmm 007 i disagree about the displacement of the man from the breadwinner role in the household being the reason for the rise of the 'metro' tendancy.

I more agree with the perception of masculinity evolving over the years, but i blame (yes here it comes) the media for this...men were being influenced by the media lot more in the 90's than ever before. (whispers GQ magazine) Men have become more narcissistic. There is always something about the way you present yourself that sais alot about your personality. Men are more concious about what their appearance sais about them.
In the animal kingdom (especially in Birds) its the male with the best display that wins the female......

If you think about it, men were pretty well groomed most of the time (after the John Wayne era) admittedly the clothes have gotten a little tighter and more tailored to fit the body. Now the tee shirts and jeans are purposely washed out and frayed on the end for the 'vintage' look, the hair has a style besides 'combed' and shaving with soap has been replaced with gillette or nivea total skin care...
but more than that...the 'metro' man simply cares about how he looks and takes an interest even if he wears a trucker (von dutch) cap with italian bowling shoes, armani jeans and a joe hardy or monarchy embroidered tee...

[Somebody007]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:


ah think shaving yuhself and puttin on ah lil cologne is something I think 99% of men do...but what I believe Serenity is trying to bring up here is when they go the extra mile to put on face powder/maybe some foundation and do like Shaquille O' Neal does at times....put on a lil eye liner and ting too...coupled with some nice earings.....that is when the label of a metrosexual does come in.

[Somebody007]

The reason why I brought up the argument about men being displaced as the 'breadwinner' was because from sociological studies and even in the hippie movement days, men's roles in society actually began to change when women started leaving the homes and entering into the workplace. There is no direct link between men being displaced in the family and the metrosexual man but a man's changing role in the household can be fitted into that long chain which can explain the emergence of new masculinities.

[serenity]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:


ah think shaving yuhself and puttin on ah lil cologne is something I think 99% of men do...but what I believe Serenity is trying to bring up here is when they go the extra mile to put on face powder/maybe some foundation and do like Shaquille O' Neal does at times....put on a lil eye liner and ting too...coupled with some nice earings.....that is when the label of a metrosexual does come in.

Somebody, I think that behaviour u describe borders on transexual. Mets are the well dressed (designer only), well groomed (manicures, pedicures, body wax) guys. Actually, I dont see many with earrings. They're the male version of the woman whose nails are always done and hair always impeccable and their stockinged feet step daintily in stiletto heels. No body hair in sight.

[sheppy]

body hair...ewwww :oops:

[sheppy]

:lol: 007 Metro have nothing to do wit eyeliner and foundation...yuh mad or what...
p.s yuh tink sumana like dem kinda men? :lol: :lol:

[strombo23]

metro is wayyyyyy more than just knowing how to dress, shave, shampoo and use cologne. when ah fellah going as far as using eye liner :? , mascara :( , waxin :o :o , having d latest from all dem popular designers....and all dem studing is latest fashion trends. den DAT! is true metro.

[serenity]

I know guys who wax their faces so it stays cleaner, smoother longer. And what about all the models and bodybuilders and cyclists and swimmers? Guys waxing is a common thing these days and its not just for the metros.

I think allyuh off with the eyeliner and mascara thing though. I didnt see any on Sheppy... ;) :lol:

[sheppy]

buh wha d jail is dis ???? Metro have NOTHING to do wit eye liner and mascara and foundation...

good grief (i'm so angry i have to defend this nonsensical word )

me·tro·sex·ual [ mèttr? sékshoo ?l ] (plural me·tro·sex·uals)


noun

Definition:

young straight stylish urban man: a young, straight, sensitive urban man who is unashamed to enjoy good clothes, stylish living, the art of decorating, and improving his personal appearance ( informal )


[mid-20th century.]


me·tro·sex·u·al adjective

[sheppy]

The origin of the term can be traced to an article titled “Here come the mirror men”,[1] dissecting them by Mark Simpson, published on November 15, 1994, in The Independent, a major British daily newspaper. He was quoted in this as writing,

Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that’s where all the best shops are), is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade. In the Eighties he was only to be found inside fashion magazines such as GQ, in television advertisements for Levis jeans or in gay bars. In the Nineties, he’s everywhere and he’s going shopping with Mark Sullivan a big butch aircraft engineer.

The key to the current popularity of the term is Simpson’s 2002 Salon.com article “Meet the metrosexual” which proffered David Beckham as the metrosexual posterboy, despite this not being a completely accurate representation. The huge advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide adopted the term shortly thereafter for a marketing study, and the New York Times made it a Sunday feature, “Metrosexuals Come Out”; the story trickled into local news outlets across North America.

Simpson’s Salon.com definition is more nuanced from metrosexual’s common use today. His article was detached, wittily ironic, with more than a dash of anti-corporate disdain, and his definition exists outside the gay-straight style binary that defines the boundaries of fashion for many Americans –

“The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis – because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere. For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism. The stoic, self-denying, modest straight male didn't shop enough (his role was to earn money for his wife to spend), and so he had to be replaced by a new kind of man, one less certain of his identity and much more interested in his image – that's to say, one who was much more interested in being looked at (because that's the only way you can be certain you actually exist). A man, in other words, who is an advertiser’s walking wet dream.”

[Somebody007]

Personally i hate being labelled a metro man....jus cuz i learn how to dress and shave mehself an wear a lil cologne doh mean ppl have d right to go around sayin...yeh he 'metro'

ah jus like to be neat ok :oops:


ah think shaving yuhself and puttin on ah lil cologne is something I think 99% of men do...but what I believe Serenity is trying to bring up here is when they go the extra mile to put on face powder/maybe some foundation and do like Shaquille O' Neal does at times....put on a lil eye liner and ting too...coupled with some nice earings.....that is when the label of a metrosexual does come in.

Somebody, I think that behaviour u describe borders on transexual. Mets are the well dressed (designer only), well groomed (manicures, pedicures, body wax) guys. Actually, I dont see many with earrings. They're the male version of the woman whose nails are always done and hair always impeccable and their stockinged feet step daintily in stiletto heels. No body hair in sight.

I eh talking bout no tranny business....I talking about men apart from being well groomed, they put on powder and eye liner on dey face along with what they wearing.....that is why I mentioned the name Shaquille O Neal (the basketball player) because the man say he does use eye liner sometimes when he dressin....

[serenity]

buh wha d jail is dis ???? Metro have NOTHING to do wit eye liner and mascara and foundation...

good grief (i'm so angry i have to defend this nonsensical word )


Yuh see? Allyuh gone and offend Sheppy now....
Whether or not they wear mascara, they always smell so yummy!

[Somebody007]

buh wha d jail is dis ???? Metro have NOTHING to do wit eye liner and mascara and foundation...

good grief (i'm so angry i have to defend this nonsensical word )


Yuh see? Allyuh gone and offend Sheppy now....
Whether or not they wear mascara, they always smell so yummy!


Nah Sheppy must be cool off by now.......

[sheppy]

wha yuh tink cool meh off...is meh cologne evaporatin... :P

[dhal]

i remember d first time i bounce up a fella waxing! i was jus so intrigued. he was on the table next to me an the lady was doin his legs (it was carnival time) and wow! did he ever have some legs!! :D :D ans yea i agree with the smell thing.. :P :P :P 8-)

BTW, does being metro make less manly???

[Solachica]

:? I doh wear eyelines and mascara and thing but if a feller want to wear it then whtever floats his boat oui. :mrgreen:

[Solachica]

Double post :?

[sylvestter]

steups.
nothing wrong in trying to look and smell good and be trendy...

[sapodila]

metro is wayyyyyy more than just knowing how to dress, shave, shampoo and use cologne. when ah
fellah going as far as using eye liner :? , mascara :( , waxin :o :o , having d latest from all dem popular designers....and all dem studing is latest fashion trends. den DAT! is true metro.
That sounding so damn GAY to me! :lol: The high lights and hair gel one can understand. But eyeliner, masscara :?: :?

[strombo23]

i talking bout straight men doing dem things. my realll boy uses eyeliner sometimes. and he straight. i straight. i crack up d fus time i saw dat. realll bill it off ah him. i have no probs with fellahs using those stuff. their body their image. i just find personally, thats doing too much.
i like to be pamered. i like nice things, clothes, accessories (especially watches and shoes), furniture, best of the best of all the things i like and use yuh could say. there is nothing wrong with that. as long as i am happy, comfortable AND it pullin de girls n dem. ;)

[Somebody007]

metro is wayyyyyy more than just knowing how to dress, shave, shampoo and use cologne. when ah
fellah going as far as using eye liner :? , mascara :( , waxin :o :o , having d latest from all dem popular designers....and all dem studing is latest fashion trends. den DAT! is true metro.
That sounding so damn GAY to me! :lol: The high lights and hair gel one can understand. But eyeliner, masscara :?: :?


it will only be a matter of time when lipstick will transcend from a transexual identity into a metrosexual norm.

[Somebody007]

i talking bout straight men doing dem things. my realll boy uses eyeliner sometimes. and he straight. i straight. i crack up d fus time i saw dat. realll bill it off ah him. i have no probs with fellahs using those stuff. their body their image. i just find personally, thats doing too much.
i like to be pamered. i like nice things, clothes, accessories (especially watches and shoes), furniture, best of the best of all the things i like and use yuh could say. there is nothing wrong with that. as long as i am happy, comfortable AND it pullin de girls n dem. ;)


yuh see d ting right here....ah tell allyuh ppl, Shaquille O Neal (the basketball player) usin d eye liner on he face with ah little foundation and he is ah big metrosexual. The eye liner and mascara aint no tranny business for dem men in London, Paris and New York. That is ah norm out dey.

[sheppy]

I dunno who is dees 'metro transexuals' allyuh know wit d eyeliner ting...dey tink dem is a rockstarrr or what?

Now there was a time when punk and grunge styles included..mascara, eyeliner, even nail polish (in 'manly' colors such as black and metallic silver or some nonsense) but that is not metrosexual.

[Somebody007]

I dunno who is dees 'metro transexuals' allyuh know wit d eyeliner ting...dey tink dem is a rockstarrr or what?

Now there was a time when punk and grunge styles included..mascara, eyeliner, even nail polish (in 'manly' colors such as black and metallic silver or some nonsense) but that is not metrosexual.


hehehe....metro transexuals....nice terminology here.... :lol: :lol:

[sapodila]

it will only be a matter of time when lipstick will transcend from a transexual identity into a metrosexual norm.[/quote]
Imagine this.........me and my man walking down the street both wearing lipstick? :lol: :lol: :lol: I don't think soo :!:

[Somebody007]

it will only be a matter of time when lipstick will transcend from a transexual identity into a metrosexual norm.
Imagine this.........me and my man walking down the street both wearing lipstick? :lol: :lol: :lol: I don't think soo :!:[/quote]

Sapodilla d people and dem go say yuh haddah move with d modern times.

[strombo23]

imagine this....he knows how to apply lipstick, eyeliner and mascara much better than you.

[serenity]

Next thing we'll have men's own line of purses to hold ll the makeup! Or do they have that already? :twisted:

[Somebody007]

Next thing we'll have men's own line of purses to hold ll the makeup! Or do they have that already? :twisted:


women does dress like men and nobody doh tell dem nutten....but if ah man dress up like ah woman, well the world go say he either ah tranny or gay....I find this world is upside down when you think about it.

[serenity]

:lol:
So true Somebody, so true.

When u consider it seriously, pants were adopted by women bec it facilitated freer movement. Practicality seem to be the main motive behaind that move. Makeup was traditionally worn by women to highlight their physical appeal since that's how they got men..by how goodlooking they were. Men got women by how rich they were and their social status.

Why are men using makeup now? Emphasis on their ability to provide is arguably lessened since women are now financially independent, so maybe its to appear more physically appealing?

[IN-A-QUANDRY]

Ah doh mind being a metero minus the face foundation. That's taking it overboard.

[sapodila]

imagine this....he knows how to apply lipstick, eyeliner and mascara much better than you.
True! true! The thing is I is ah natural beauty. I does only wear lipstick..........he will surely over shadow me........I eh fuh dat nah :lol:

[Somebody007]

Ah doh mind being a metero minus the face foundation. That's taking it overboard.


yuh just say minus the face foundation but what about the eye liner business???

[sheppy]

Makeup was traditionally worn by women to highlight their physical appeal since that's how they got men..by how goodlooking they were. Men got women by how rich they were and their social status

buh wait...ah missin something ??? dat eh change...maybe now women does get plastic surgery and men have flashy cars to show off their wealth...but things havn't changed much at all...is still the same meat market it was since cavemen were hittin women over the head with clubs and draggin dem into their caves....(geico doh sue meh eh!)

[Somebody007]

Why are men using makeup now? Emphasis on their ability to provide is arguably lessened since women are now financially independent, so maybe its to appear more physically appealing?


Just like how man evolved from ape into humans through an evolutionary (biological) process, so did his habits and personality over the centuries. I simply view this phase of metrosexual man as taking another course in the existence of manhood. Doh worry nah Serenity, in years to come, man will be exploring the female 'skirt' and how to change it up to fit a man....ah not talking about kilts eh....

[serenity]

Makeup was traditionally worn by women to highlight their physical appeal since that's how they got men..by how goodlooking they were. Men got women by how rich they were and their social status

buh wait...ah missin something ??? dat eh change...maybe now women does get plastic surgery and men have flashy cars to show off their wealth...but things havn't changed much at all...is still the same meat market it was since cavemen were hittin women over the head with clubs and draggin dem into their caves....(geico doh sue meh eh!)

Yeah, i dont think that changed much, but then why do men do the makeup thing? I did a professional makeup artistry course (yeah, ah REAL love makeup) and there were discussions on what determines the fashion of the day - makeup-wise. It usually come out of the 'look' that designers choose to portray. They dont only sell the clothes, but also the accessories and the makeup that goes with it. Even hairstyles change accordingly. So I guess guys go for the 'look' as well. And since models wear makeup, it follows logically...u buy the clothes, the shoes, the haircut, u look for a similar girl..and the makeup.