Metrosexy
Metrosexy: A 21st Century Self-Love Story is a 2011 ebook by the UK author and journalist Mark Simpson, who is credited with coining and popularising the term metrosexual. The book collects his writings on the subject of metrosexuality, offering a kind of biography of the subject, which he describes as a "Frankenstein monster with flawless skin".
From the term's origin in an article of Simpson's for The Independent newspaper in 1994, to its international adoption in the early 2000s, through "retrosexual" backlash against it and its current Jersey Shore resurgence, Simpson charts how the term was first ignored, then embraced, then repudiated, before finally reaching the point where metrosexuality, the male desire to be desired, is now simply seen as "normal". Simpson argues that the profound impact of the metrosexual revolution has largely been trivialised by the media in the form of articles about 'manbags', 'manscara' flip flops and male spas. Simpson argues that the concept of metrosexuality is deeper than this. In the introduction to Metrosexy, he writes:
'it almost goes without saying that for the most part this metrosexmania – Ooo! Facials! Ooo! Sack and crack waxes! – drowned out any serious discussion or examination of metrosexuality, and the masculine revolution it represented. Ironically metrosexuality was anything but skin deep, whilst metrosexmania pretended that’s all it was.'
Metrosexy has been serialised in UK newspaper The Independent[1] and on Out.com[2]
References
- ^ "How the new New Man won - Features - Books". The Independent. 2011-06-01. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
- ^ "Mark Simpson's Metrosexual Reflections | Out Magazine". Out.com. Retrieved 2012-03-13.
External links
- Official website
- Mark Simpson in Time Out London on Metrosexy [1]
- Mark Simpson in The Guardian January 2012 [2]
- Metrosexy Review - by Quiet Riot Girl [3]
- Metrosexuals Of The World, Unite And Bend Over - Mark Simpson interviewed about Metrosexy by Quiet Riot Girl [4]