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Originally posted by RSMA1234
Adam ...Eve came from him....
Tell me something I DON'T know.

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Tell me something I DON'T know.

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LOL.....tell me what you donlt know "Mr alll knowing and all seeing"

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Vincent Price looks more like Walt than Tom of Finland:

http://www.glowingdial.com/images/Vincent_Price_2.jpg
to me vincent looks more like errol flynn... not exactly though. but vincent is more the hero-carved-in-stone type, where as tom & walt look more like family men.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/errol-flynn-gal-431.jpg

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Originally posted by wormwood
to me vincent looks more like errol flynn... not exactly though. but vincent is more the hero-carved-in-stone type, where as tom & walt look more like family men.

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/errol-flynn-gal-431.jpg
They should have started a club called, "Guys Who Look Like Us".

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Originally posted by RSMA1234
LOL.....tell me what you donlt know "Mr alll knowing and all seeing"
I don't know that you need to take THAT tone with me, Mister!

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
They should have started a club called, "Guys Who Look Like Us".

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"Guys-R-Us" 🙂

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Originally posted by RSMA1234
LOL.....tell me what you donlt know "Mr alll knowing and all seeing"
Sounds like the Eye of Mordor.

I can see how you could make that mistake though. 🙂

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Originally posted by Natsia
David Bowie.
Good one but don't they have to be straight? ABSOLUTELY straight?

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Originally posted by Phlabibit
The first Egyptian Pharaoh Narmer (also known as Menes).

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Let's discuss metrosexuals in the age of the photograph, please. Modern times!

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Originally posted by Sunburnt
Let's discuss metrosexuals in the age of the photograph, please. Modern times!
Annie Lenox?

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From Wikipedia:

Evolution of the word
The term originated in an article by Mark Simpson ("Here come the mirror men"[1]) published on November 15, 1994, in The Independent. Simpson wrote:

Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that’s where all the best shops are), is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade. In the Eighties he was only to be found inside fashion magazines such as GQ, in television advertisements for Levis jeans or in gay bars. In the Nineties, he’s everywhere and he’s going shopping.

The term greatly increased in popularity following Simpson's 2002 Salon.com article "Meet the metrosexual", which identified David Beckham as the metrosexual poster boy. The advertising agency Euro RCSG Worldwide adopted the term shortly thereafter for a marketing study, and The New York Times published a Sunday feature, "Metrosexuals Come Out"; the story trickled into local news outlets across North America.

Simpson's Salon.com definition is more nuanced than the term's common use today.

"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis – because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.

"For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism. The stoic, self-denying, modest straight male didn't shop enough (his role was to earn money for his wife to spend), and so he had to be replaced by a new kind of man, one less certain of his identity and much more interested in his image – that's to say, one who was much more interested in being looked at (because that's the only way you can be certain you actually exist). A man, in other words, who is an advertiser's walking wet dream."[2]

Former Metro Radio presenter Mitch Murray claims that he invented the term in the 1980s. At that time, he says, the word had a very different connotation, as it was simply a play on words involving "Metro Radio" and heterosexuals. Murray would send a weekly tape to the local radio station in Newcastle upon Tyne. "Very early during the process", he created station identification segments, one of which he claims included the phrase "We are the metrosexuals." It is unclear whether the segment was actually broadcast, and there is no documentary evidence of his claims.[3] Also, when the word first became popular, various sources incorrectly attributed its origin to trendspotter Marian Salzman, but by Salzman's own admission[4] Simpson's use of the term in a 1994 Independent newspaper article predates her use of the term.

Rising popularity of the term followed the increasing integration of gay men into mainstream society and a correspondingly decreased taboo towards deviation from existing notions of masculinity. Over a short timespan, the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada introduced same-sex marriage legislation, various US states legalized same-sex marriage and civil unions, the US Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy statutes as unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas and gay characters and themes, long present on TV shows like Will & Grace, Queer as Folk, and Ellen made further inroads. In particular, the Bravo network introduced Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, a show in which stereotypically style- and culture-conscious gay men gave advice to their heterosexual counterparts.

Media explaining the term often rely on citing a few individuals as prime illustrations. Simpson's 2002 Salon.com article "Meet the metrosexual" used Beckham as its prime exemplar — and most journalists and marketers followed suit. David Beckham or Tom Egger have been called a "metrosexual icon"[5] and is often coupled with the term. Amply referred-to individuals include personalities such as Brad Pitt, Arnold Schwarzenegger,[6] and Ryan Seacrest.

Simpson's work was often blatantly plagiarised. The Australian national newspaper Sydney Morning Herald ran a major feature in March 2003 titled "The Rise of the Metrosexual" (also syndicated in its sister paper The Age) which borrowed heavily from Simpson's "Meet the Metrosexual" published on Salon.com the previous July, right down to the title and illustration. Neither his article nor Simpson himself were mentioned in the piece.[7]

A 60 Minutes story on 1960s-70s pro footballer Joe Namath suggested he was "perhaps, America's first metrosexual"[8] after filming his most famous ad sporting Beautymist panty hose. Simpson has called Joe Namath "America's abandoned metrosexual prototype", leaving the field open for later Brit metro imports such as Beckham.[9]

Pointing out the differences between Beckham and Namath, Simpson writes:

If this ad were to be reprised by David Beckham today you would notice the following differences:
He would look much better in pantyhose
He wouldn't say "I don’t wear pantyhose". And if he did, no one would believe him.
He wouldn't be wearing anything else
He wouldn't laugh. Fashion, as his titanium-cheekboned wife has taught him, is a very serious business.
And, most of all, he wouldn't be selling them to women.

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[edit] Other terms
Over the course of the following months, other terms countering or substituting for "metrosexual" appeared. Perhaps the most widely used was "retrosexual," a traditionally masculine man who rejects focus on physical appearance, sort of the opposite of a metrosexual (again coined by Simpson, who described the term in a Salon.com article entitled "Beckham, the virus."[11]

"Beckham is the über-metrosexual, not just because he rams metrosexuality down the throats of those men churlish enough to remain retrosexual and refuse to pluck their eyebrows, but also because he is a sportsman, a man of substance – a "real" man – who wishes to disappear into surfaceness in order to become ubiquitous – to become media. Becks is The One, and better looking than Keanu – but, be warned, he's working for the Matrix."
Another example, the übersexual, coined by marketing executives and authors of The Future of Men (and perhaps inspired by Simpson's use of the term "uber-metrosexual"😉, caused Simpson to reply, "Any discussion in the style pages of the media about what is desirable and attractive in men and what is 'manly' and what isn't, is simply more metrosexualization. Metrosexuality—do I really have to spell it out?—is mediated masculinity."[12]

Most recently, marketers and magazines like Men's Health trying to sell even more cosmetics to men have tried to foist the "heteropolitan" on the public. As with the defunct "ubersexual", they claimed that the metrosexual was "dead" and had been replaced by the "heteropolitan". Again, there was no real differentation from the metrosexual, there was, as with the "ubersexual", just a more uptight, less credible marketing version of him. Mark Simpson wrote in The Guardian in 2007 about the irony of "metromag" Men's Health jumping on the "heteropolitan" — and homophobic[neutrality disputed] — bandwagon, asking, "When is Men's Health going to come out to itself?"[13]

None of these metro-offspring have thrived, although metrosexual seems to have stuck and become part of the language.


[edit] Übersexual
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The word "'übersexual" derives from the German über = above, superior and the Latin sexus = gender). It was claimed to be coined by the authors of the book Future of Men (O'Reilly, Matathia, Salzman, 2005) and is a variant of metrosexual. The word seems to have been inspired by the phrase "uber-metrosexual", used by the creator of the metrosexual Mark Simpson to describe David Beckham.[14] Salzman appropriated Simpson's work on the metrosexual in 2002 to sell another book.[14]

Simpson has pointed out that the book contains several deliberate misrepresentations of him, his work, and the history of the metrosexual, including the assertion that his coinage of the term in 1994 was "derisive", when in fact the article "Here come the mirror men" was clearly welcoming. The academic David Coad's book The Metrosexual (Suny, 2008) confirms this, and documents other misrepresentations by the marketers.[15]

Many of the "top ubersexuals" named by Salzman, such as Bono, Bill Clinton and George Clooney were on her list of "top metrosexuals" in 2003.

The authors of Future of Men argue that the übersexual is not derivative of the metrosexual man.

The future of men, proclaim the authors, is "not to be found in the primped and waxed boy who wowed the world with his nuanced knowledge of tweezers and exfoliating creams. Men, at the end of the day, will have to rely on their intellect and their passion, their erudition and professional success, to be acknowledged and idealised in contemporary society. Called the 'übersexual'—-a degree of greatness and perfection, an acknowledgment that this is an evolved species of man—he is so perfect as to leave little margin for error and fallacy."

Some, including Simpson and Armistead Maupin, have suggested that behind this congealed marketing-speak there was something rather simple going on: a homophobic attempt to stop the metrosexual being so "gay". Or, as Salzman herself put it proudly, the ubersexual (unlike the metrosexual) "doesn't in...

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Originally posted by Adsum
Annie Lenox?
PWAAHAHAHA!
In that case: KD Lang.

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Gary Glitter...... oh, im getting confused with minisexual 😕

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Originally posted by rmacken
Gary Glitter...... oh, im getting confused with minisexual 😕
I need to get you a midget to follow you around with a drum kit on it's back...

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