David Beckham is a very famous metrosexual. Dude A: yo fam , im such a metrosexual , i would fuck a train. A man that cares about his self image and is most likely into more feminine ideas than the average dude. He'll more than likely make a better lady friend than most other men.
He's into man sculpting , and shaving everything but maybe his legs. He goes to a salon instead of a barber. He probably drives a coupe, or a sport hatch, never a truck. He takes time to manicure himself and puts on cologne everyday. Definition of metrosexual. He's hip, urban, sophisticated and, above all, stylish — Rebecca Paley. Other Words from metrosexual metrosexual adjective. Examples of metrosexual in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web Despite the emergence of the metrosexual and an increase in stay-at-home dads, tough-guy stereotypes die hard.
First Known Use of metrosexual , in the meaning defined above. Learn More About metrosexual. Time Traveler for metrosexual The first known use of metrosexual was in See more words from the same year. From the Editors at Merriam-Webster. He saw these men as vain, narcissistic , and obsessed with shopping and going to the gym.
Simpson described them as neither straight or gay with an appreciation for personal grooming as a gay stereotype here —they were metrosexual. Simpson himself was ahead of the trend. Metrosexuals would not spread into the cultural mainstream until the early s, with the TV show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy helping popularize a more positive awareness and interest in fashion and upscale urban lifestyles among straight men—again, things stereotypically associated with gay men.
A episode of South Park parodied the trend of metrosexuality as well. Just as male homosexuality was still stigmatised and partly criminalised back then, the male desire to be desired — the self-regarding heart of metrosexuality — was scorned by many. Narcissism was seen as being essentially feminine, or Wildean — and look what happened to him. The trials of Oscar Wilde, the last dandy, at the end of the 19th Century helped stamp a Victorian morality over much of the 20th century.
Male vanity was at best womanish — at worst, perverted. The end of the 20th century, the abolition of the last laws discriminating against male homosexuality, and arrival of the preening dominance of celebrity culture with its Darwinian struggle to be noticed in a visual, "branded" world finally blew away the remnants of Victorianism.
To illustrate this, I only have to say two words: David Beckham, the working-class England footballer who became more globally famous for his attention-seeking haircuts, unabashed prettiness and rampant desire to be desired than for his footballing skills.
Once the sari-wearing midfielder was outed in by me again, sorry as the ultimate metrosexual, everyone suddenly "got it". All that Nineties denial turned into incessant Noughties chatter about metrosexuals and "male grooming". But still people failed to understand what was really going on with men. In fact, the momentous nature of the masculine revolution that metrosexuality represents has been largely obscured by much of the superficial coverage it got.
Metrosexuality is, in a paradox that Wilde would have relished, not skin deep. To themselves.
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