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[oxymoronia]

More from Bernard Salt (who reckons metrosexuals are doomed because women need mammoths hunted):

Meet the new bloke on the block: the neosexual

The "neosexual" has been identified as the latest male breed, having shrugged off the femininity of the metrosexual and returned to his more masculine, primitive roots

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[merle_]

"Evolutionary changes in man used to take thousands of years, but now these transformations appear to be occurring from one decade to the next."

Ahahaha, clearly women have yet to discover the vast cloning laboratories deep underground where genetic engineering is used to forcibly clone, modify, and quick-grow men. Just wait for next decade's fashion, the man who is quite effeminate while butch and uncaring about anything other than themselves. Oh, and he likes fuchsia.

I do wonder why deodorant companies are researching lifestyle trends. Really, whenever they have "sporty" or "fresh" or whatever smells, they seem to just be a different sort of nasty.

[oxymoronia]

If similar labels were used in reference to women, it'd be considered offensive. Maybe it's a secret conspiracy, push men to their limits until there's an uprising and women are worse off (again).

It's probably for the next advertising campaign... Luckily people who have nothing better to do than fill in surveys distributed by their deodorant brand are very unlikely to be representative of the population.

[ext_90340]

It's not categorizing itself that's the problem; it's that the categories used are so often crude, trite, and inconsistent. People want a system that is both familiar and simple at a low level of abstraction.

A very large number of men and women don't want to figure-out for themselves what their sexuality should be, and they certainly don't want to fact social sanctions for expressing sexuality in ways that might be deemed inappropriate. Other people want a model for predicting the behavior of those whom they observe.

Bernard Salt and the journalist reporting what he's saying may perfectly believe all his stuff; in any event, they are rewarded for shovelling it forth.

[oxymoronia]

In short, people are happy to settle for superficiality in their lives.

[ext_90340]

Or at least unwilling to pay the costs of the alternative.

[ofthewomb]

No one is comfortable with themselves, so they feel the need to have one defining quality that they can label. They feel too boring, so they pick a "type" of person to be and work within that to create their identity. Then they have an excuse for everything they do, too. It's like making a character on The Sims. That's my theory for it. :P

[oxymoronia]

LOL, at the end of Year 11 I was asked by someone "What will your "style" be for next year? How are you gonna change how you dress?" and for a moment I panicked and thought that by just keeping on wearing the clothes I already had and liked I was going to be soooo boring. Then I realised that I was just being myself. ^_^