Madison Cawthorn’s Big Butch Exit North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn, a wheelchair user after a 2014 car accident, used his final address on the House floor last week to bemoan “soft metrosexuals” and give today’s men a stern spanking: “Our… Read More »Metrosexual Ex-Rep. Raps Metros
Daniel Craig’s new ad for Belvedere vodka is quite the gay divorcee statement. In the ad, directed by Thor‘s Taika Waititi, fifty-four-year-old Craig (happily married to Rachel Weisz since 2011), sheds his 007 white tuxedo strai(gh)tjacket, dons a tarty black tank… Read More »Daniel Craig Escapes Bond’s Closet
Everything you wanted to know about 2nd gen metrosexuality & ‘androgyny on androgens’ but were afraid to ask Originally published in 2018 (in Spanish) in the Catalan anthropological periodical Quaderns (No. 34, 2018). Expanded from a feature written for GQ Style (‘Attack… Read More »Spornosexuals: A Permanent, Pectacular Revolution
Last month The Mirror (and several other outlets) ran a ‘story’ about a Brazilian influencer and model called Arthur O Urso who ‘came out as spornsexual’ [sic] ‘after spending the last few months focussing on body exercises’. It ‘sports’ ‘the headline: Spornsexual… Read More »Meet the Typosexual: How the Spornosexual Lost a Vowel
Twenty years ago, my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. Both the piece and he went virulently viral, starting an outbreak of global metrosexmania that lasted years. Thousands of… Read More »Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On