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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Incoming! Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:18 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	I see that the term "metrosexual," which has bounced around the British press and its imperial subjects since 1994, is officially here. Since the New York Times ran a feature story on "metrosexuals" a few weeks ago, it's been "everywhere." Let's not forget that for our purposes, no one knows what it means and won't for quite a while, at which point it will be a cliché.<p>[ July 09, 2003: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2003 11:48 am
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	From Maureen Dowd today:<p>Perhaps that's why men are adapting, becoming more passive and turning into "metrosexuals," the new term for straight men who are feminized, with a taste for facials, grooming products and home design.
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majorbabs	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 12:06 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 744 Location: HuskerLand	Please, not one more "sexual." Unless of course, it's "omnisexual," the urge to screw everything up completely.
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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 9:39 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Just one question: Why?
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jbm	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 11:48 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 20, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 83 Location: New York	"Metrosexual" feels funny to me because, unlike other "-sexual" words, it's not describing a sexual orientation, it's describing a lifestyle. I'm all for new words, but this one just isn't right.
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pzicari	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:49 pm
Joined: Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 131 Location: Cleveland, OH	Hey, if conservatives can say they hate not gays but the gay "lifestyle" -- and so make sexuality a lifestyle, why can't we make a lifestyle into a sexuality? <p>(Good taste and common sense might offer some suggestions)
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Bolder1	Post subject: Re: Incoming! Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 9:22 pm
Joined: Tue Nov 19, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 71 Location: New York	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jbm: "Metrosexual" feels funny to me because, unlike other "-sexual" words, it's not describing a sexual orientation, it's describing a lifestyle. I'm all for new words, but this one just isn't right.<hr></blockquote><p>I kind of like it. Sort of rhymes with "heterosexual." <p>And the best thing is that we'll be able to make fun of metrosexuals in a few weeks for being hopelessly behind the curve. <p>On a similar topic, I saw Carson Kressley from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" on the Upper West Side today. Not surprisingly, he was really well groomed.
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