The return of the Retrosexual
From looking at the dictionary.com definition of retro, you snicker and think retrosexual is something kinky.
retro- prefix
1. Backward
2. Situated behind
3. Contrary to a usual or natural course or direction
Thankfully, you are wrong, you dirty pervert.
Joseph Farah explains what he means by applying that term to himself. Here is an excerpt -
For starters, I believe in paying for dinner. I believe in opening the door for my wife - or other ladies. I believe in giving up my seat on a bus or train for a woman. I believe in smoking cigars - even if it means sneaking them and puffing outside because wives and daughters frown upon the smell. Retrosexual men never use more hair and skin products than a woman. My shaving needs consist of a disposable safety razor, the cheaper the better, a shaving brush and a bar of soap. The bar of soap comes in particularly handy because it can double as shampoo if my wife happens to be using something pink or expensive.
Later, he goes crazy and changes this into a diatribe against same-sex marriage and the unwashed heathens - feel free to roll your eyes at those bits.
Frankly, all non-DavidBeckham men are tired of marketing-orcs who think they can sell lipstick and nailpolish to men.
Here is Dave Barry's take on the death of this manufactured trend. Read his 2004 in review for other targets he punctures.
In lifestyle news, the hot trend is "metrosexuals" -- young males who are not gay, but are seriously into grooming and dressing well. There are only eight documented cases of males like this, all living in two Manhattan blocks, but they are featured in an estimated 17,000 newspaper and magazine articles over the course of about a week, after which this trend, like a minor character vaporized by aliens in a Star Trek episode, disappears and is never heard from again.
Some more links
retro- prefix
1. Backward
2. Situated behind
3. Contrary to a usual or natural course or direction
Thankfully, you are wrong, you dirty pervert.
Joseph Farah explains what he means by applying that term to himself. Here is an excerpt -
For starters, I believe in paying for dinner. I believe in opening the door for my wife - or other ladies. I believe in giving up my seat on a bus or train for a woman. I believe in smoking cigars - even if it means sneaking them and puffing outside because wives and daughters frown upon the smell. Retrosexual men never use more hair and skin products than a woman. My shaving needs consist of a disposable safety razor, the cheaper the better, a shaving brush and a bar of soap. The bar of soap comes in particularly handy because it can double as shampoo if my wife happens to be using something pink or expensive.
Later, he goes crazy and changes this into a diatribe against same-sex marriage and the unwashed heathens - feel free to roll your eyes at those bits.
Frankly, all non-DavidBeckham men are tired of marketing-orcs who think they can sell lipstick and nailpolish to men.
Here is Dave Barry's take on the death of this manufactured trend. Read his 2004 in review for other targets he punctures.
In lifestyle news, the hot trend is "metrosexuals" -- young males who are not gay, but are seriously into grooming and dressing well. There are only eight documented cases of males like this, all living in two Manhattan blocks, but they are featured in an estimated 17,000 newspaper and magazine articles over the course of about a week, after which this trend, like a minor character vaporized by aliens in a Star Trek episode, disappears and is never heard from again.
Some more links
- The origins of the word - http://www.wordspy.com/words/retrosexual.asp
- The hilarious retrosexual code (check out the comments too) - http://www.frizzensparks.com/archives/000104.html. BTW, their politics is just as entertaining as their humor, so don't read too much into it.
- The "trend" is stillborn - http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1171661,0050.htm
- My extensive research on the topic, all organized into a nice web page - http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=retrosexual