Metrosexuals

I haven't heard anyone make the connection yet, but hasn't it occured to anyone that this whole "metrosexuality" thing is just a rehash of the "New Male" from the Seventies?

Remember when guys like Alan Alda and Phil Donahue were touted as the next big step in male evolution? How they were strong, forceful men who never had to use violence to make their point since their words and personality were strong enough to do the job, but never so strong as to deny a woman, sorry "womyn," her space to express herself? How those guys could just cuddle because it wasn't all about sex? How they were "in touch with" their feelings and not afraid to express them? They didn't have to be all macho and stuff to be men?

Metrosexuality is just that stereotype wedded to the fashion/cosmetics industry's desperate effort to get men to be unhappy with their appearance just like women are. Men have long resisted fashion's yearly-cycle lure. Notice how the "casual Friday" idea has already faded. Same with make-up. Men resist that, too. The cosmetic companies have been fighting against that for years. Nearly half the population remains as new territory, and profit, for them. They are yearning to get you, too.

Metrosexuality is just a new angle of attack. Notice that it gets most of its play in lifestyle magazines. Political types only picked it up when Dean opened his yap.

Resist and it will all blow over soon.