Male luxury and cleanliness obsessives

[oh_meow]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2057084,00.html

The lives of these people make for interesting, but fairly puzzling reading.

Comments

[shaydlip]

*Jaw drops open*
That is extremely disturbing. And I thought I knew people who wasted money.

This is halfway funny, becuase if these people ever had to rely on themselves natural selection they would be gone from the gene pool. The sad part is that will never happen, and since they are rich and famous, they are probably adding more to our gene pool than self-sufficient people.

[verredo]

The truth is that Beckham, Dash, Lagerfeld and our cheese-fridge man are all luxorexics: girlie, fussy, luxury obsessives who live their lives as bit players in their own private Gattacas
I'm not a native English speaker, but what about the word "girlie" as part of the definition of "luxorexics"? If men are that obsessed with luxury, they're girlie? So being luxorexic would be a natural tendency in women?

[slrn]

i thought the same thing.

[oh_meow]

Often (well at least in this sort of magazine in the uk) it's used to describe the sort of woman who shrieks when she breaks a nail and whose main focuses in life are her appearance and shopping, a bit silly and frivolous - ie girlie shopping trip, girlie night in (this seems to equal bad romantic comedies, cheap white wine and face packs, at least if you believe tv). I guess a silly frivolous girl as opposed to a real woman.

[tolandarkwood]

Perhaps! *buys something for his girlfriend*

[shakanaman]

What an interesting article!
The writer's definition of anorexia is frankly as bizarre as as the description of the so named luxorexics. What an odd cultural phenomonon.

[slrn]

why is the anorexia definition bizarre to you? it's perfect to me..

[fakefrancais]

craving appetite? i don't know, i feel like it's the opposite. they crave to have NO appetite. they want not to want.

[slrn]

actually it's more like you get high off of wanting but not needing. the fact that you don't have to eat (& everyone else does) makes you better, stronger somehow.

[slrn]

i would like to take these whiny little bitches and throw them in a mountain stream.

[hey_beyotch]

There are times when I read about the "upper" classes and get a bit green, but this is not one of those times. That is just horrid. What happens to all of the "things" that they no longer want? Do they auction it for charity or is the thought of the "lower" classes even using the things they used to own abhorrent to them?

Ick.

[hey_beyotch]

I have been really, really poor and I would have loved some sheets that did not pill the first time you put them on the bed. I used to hate those cheap sheet sets that were all I could afford. Some of the things I do not think the poor would want or could use that is why I put the auction/charity option in there. What do they do with the "old" stuff that isn't good enough anymore?

I cannot see any of them being too philanthropically bent.

[amhranaiochta]

ESCHER. ♥.