Metrosexual

[phildow]

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

Comments

[madamebovary]

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]

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]

Oh, man.
You used that word:
pamper.

[madamebovary]

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

[yammerskooner]

And lately I find myself wondering whether I feel fresh enough.