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08/25/2003 Archived Entry: "Metrosexuality"

THEY USED TO BE CALLED FOPS: Felix Salmon has some interesting thoughts about 'metrosexuality' and links to a lot of interesting articles which I've read recently but didn't feel like blogging myself. Now you can read all of them yourselves.

I think this whole concept of the metrosexual is all a bit silly unless you work in the advertising industry. There has always been a class of men that has strived to be fashionable (without being anything like Carson from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). Heck, watch an old movie...did you ever see Cary Grant look anything less than perfect? The idea that a man is a metrosexual if he has a salmon colored shirt in his closet (I have one close to that, if that makes me one then I am guilty as well) is plain 'ole dumb.

Read on.