Comments | phildow: Metrosexual

phildow

Metrosexual

Jul 31, 2004 23:29

Where the hell did this word come from? It wasn't around when I left for Austria, but now it just pops up every once in a while ( Read more... )

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yammerskooner July 31 2004, 23:21:14 UTC

you can't leave american culture for a year
and expect it to be sane when you get back.
it don't play that shit, mister.

phildow August 1 2004, 19:56:22 UTC

It wasn't sane when I left but it's sure as hell getting weirder.

yammerskooner August 2 2004, 08:45:17 UTC

I'm having particular troubles with it myself right now.

How's that smoking, btw? Does it seem different to you too, now that you're back?

phildow August 2 2004, 17:29:50 UTC

Smoking is definitely different. You know, I actually feel ashamed of smoking every once in a while, having to hide the cigarette from those around me when I walk outside for a break. It prompts feelings of baseness.

Maybe that's why I'm smoking less, down to about three cigarettes a day from five to ten while I was in Graz. Psh, I say five to ten, but more around that ten bit. Or maybe it's because these damn Zig Zags just don't taste any good. I used to have faith in Zig Zag, but after hemp papers...

madamebovary July 31 2004, 23:29:23 UTC

I will second what the other fellow said.

I think there was a huge article about being Metrosexual in my state's newspaper (yeah, it's Rhode Island so there's only one paper for the state and a few for the town).

sources are (from the best of my knowledge): the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, South Park, etc.

noticed more showings of Trading Spaces? it's playing into it - also on ESPN one day i saw an ad for moisturizer for males. get used to it.

phildow August 1 2004, 20:08:22 UTC

I feel like I could write a paper on this word and the phenomenon it purports to describe: nicely dressed men who care for their appearance and treat women well. Only in America would that be called metrosexual. It really is an American thing. In europe, some 80 to 90% of the men are already like that. Well, maybe not the women part, but they sure as hell pamper themselves and dress well. It's normal ( ... )

yammerskooner August 2 2004, 08:49:06 UTC

Oh, man.
You used that word:
pamper.

madamebovary August 2 2004, 14:42:48 UTC

well...i mean, we could call them european but then they'd be terrorists.

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"metrosexual" has been around anonymous August 2 2004, 14:49:57 UTC

This article in Salon is from the summer before you went to Graz. In fact, it's from before you got too involved with peace stuff. Granted, you are from OK, but jeez!!

Re: "metrosexual" has been around phildow August 2 2004, 17:26:23 UTC

Damn! So I missed out on this word because Oklahoma is a little behind the rest of the country?! Oooh, and David Beckham. Now I wonder though, he's a Brit, and Salon is using this word to describe him, which completely contradicts what I was earlier saying about Europeans. Are the Brits a little different when it comes to male stlye, or do I just have no idea what I'm talking about? Or did Salon just screw up? That's what my ego tells me.