Tag Archives: narcissism

Still Ill: Narcissism is Sick Again

Terrible news! Call off the Xmas Party at Men’s Health magazine! Cancel the male strippers and the buckets of (low-fat) blancmange! Self-love isn’t going to be rehabilitated after all. At least not by the shrinks. Professionally speaking, it will remain the love the dare not speak its name — even as the culture screams nothing …

December 5, 2011 – 1:43 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, metrosexual, metrosexy | Tagged , , , | Comments (19)

Tartphones

Martin Lindstrom writing in The NYT today (‘You Love your iPhone. Literally.’) claims to have found evidence, using fancy-pants neuro-imaging technology, that people are not ‘addicted’ to their smartphones as is commonly suggested, but rather, ‘love’ them. And not, like, ironically. Or like ‘I heart my iPhone’. But like they love a person. Or how …

October 2, 2011 – 7:23 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , , | Comments (10)

Men’s Health Staff Celebrate News That Narcissism Is No Longer an Illness

I jest of course. The staff at Men’s Health wish they looked like that. Even if I’m sure quite a few of them dance like that – when the readers can’t see them (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell may be about to be repealed in the US Armed Forces, but not any time soon at Men’s Health publisher Rodale …

December 20, 2010 – 10:21 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary, masculinity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (9)

Quentin Crisp and Hurtian Crisp

The Naked Civil Servant is the best and funniest TV drama ever made. And I’m sorry, but it’s a scientific fact. And like its subject it could only have been made in the UK.  Even if Crisp said he hated England — and he did, over and over again. So many lines in Philip Mackie’s superb …

January 13, 2010 – 6:06 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, commentary, film, gay, media, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (12)

Twinsome Devils and the Narcissus Complex

Mark Simpson paints a portrait of a clonosexual world of Dorians (Arena Hommes Plus, Winter 2008, and collected in Metrosexy) Most ads these days aren’t worth a first glance. But earlier this year D&G Time launched a heavily-rotated global campaign directed by Hype Williams that was definitely worth a second. If you looked hard enough, you …

November 13, 2008 – 1:32 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in advertising, article, bisexuality, celebrity, journalism, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (5)