Tag Archives: metrosexual

The Perfect Mandate: Obama and Becks (and the Media)

David Beckham, global poster-boy for metrosexuality, sporting an Edwardian beard, had a hot date with Obama at the White House today. Though he had to bring his team-mates along as LA Galaxy were being honoured with a reception after winning the Major League Soccer Cup, America’s equivalent of the Premiership. After listing the soccer star’s achievements, introducing …

May 15, 2012 – 10:52 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in Barack Obama, Beckham, commentary | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Winsome, Losesome, Mansome

It’s always tricky as a writer talking to a researcher for a TV or film documentary. On the one hand you want your ideas to be taken seriously and the historical record to be as accurate as possible. And of course we all like attention. Especially from a visual medium we probably don’t belong in. …

May 8, 2012 – 5:42 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (17)

‘Mâle Au Corps’: Mark Simpson talks to ‘Liberation’

Mark Simpson interviewed by Clement Ghys in France’s Liberation newspaper about the evolution of his metrosexual offspring – and Justin Timberlake’s ass. (Unedited English email Q&A, April 2012) CG: In 1994, you coined the term “Metrosexual”. Looking back, how would you say the concept has evolved? In what way do you find this definition still relevant? …

April 19, 2012 – 2:03 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in interview with Mark Simpson | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

Let me Hear Your Body Talk

Are men the new women? I’ve always avoided using that line until now. As the (hetero)sexual division of labour and loving and looking continues to fall apart, men are the new everything. Just as women are. But in the last few months we’ve been told men now take longer getting ready than women, mercifully deleting at …

January 9, 2012 – 11:00 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual, sport | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (15)

Traditional Masculinity Has a Stroke: ‘Burly Rugby Player’ To ‘Gay Hairdresser’

  My friend Michelle, formerly the male stripper known as ‘Stud-U-Like’, alerted me to this ‘freaky’ tale of transformation reported in this week’s Daily Mail: Burly rugby player has a stroke after freak gym accident… wakes up gay and becomes a hairdresser  Chris Birch loses eight stone and transforms himself from skinhead to ‘preened man’ …

November 9, 2011 – 5:22 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , | Comments (27)

Fag-Up, America

Column by yours truly over on HuffPo about why America needs to drop the manly strap-ons and fag-up instead.

October 13, 2011 – 3:08 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , | Comments (6)

The Metrosexual is Undead

How many obituaries will the press write for the metrosexual before they finally accept that he’s immortal? Or at least, undead? That every time they cut off his head and pronounce him ‘deceased’ they replace him with even more metrosexuality? I was recently asked some questions by Maria Paz Lopez for the Spanish national newspaper La …

September 6, 2011 – 3:44 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

Guardian Gives Shane Warne a Kicking — For His Own Good

You may remember that a few weeks back Metrodaddy was moved to defend the new, svelte Shane Warne from a metrophobic kicking by the British press. Even though his look isn’t really working for me. It seems I may have to do it again. The Guardian — ‘the world’s leading liberal voice’ – has finally got around to …

August 29, 2011 – 4:57 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Anders Breivik: Metro-Psycho

When I first saw the images of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik, the ones he had so helpfully included in his press pack that accompanied his ‘manifesto’, two thoughts immediately popped into my net-addled head: a) They look photoshopped. Especially the soft-focus glamour one in the Lacoste jumper with the collar turned up b) The ‘action …

August 3, 2011 – 3:46 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, current affairs, masculinity, metrosexy | Tagged , , , , | Comments (7)

Shane Warne Comes Out Looking Pretty

Remember the Australian cricketer Shane Warne? Remember how blokey and beery and one of the carefree lads he was? A proper man’s man? Well, he’s only gone and been snared by a posh Pommy Sheila who’s turned him into a bloody pooftah! Or at least this was the drift of today’s Telegraph article about him, …

July 29, 2011 – 11:12 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)