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".
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
- Simpson in Time Out London on Metrosexy [1]
- Simpson in The Guardian January 2012 [2]
- The Making Of Metrosexy Men - Review of Metrosexy by Quiet Riot Girl in Science of The Time international 'Cool Hunting' project [3]
- In Praise of Metrosexual Men - Review of Metrosexy by Quiet Riot Girl at The Good Men Project [4]
- Simpson interviewed by Italian magazine 'Studio'[5]