Originally posted by the Bear:
[b]Metrosexual man bows to red-blooded
übersexuals
Paul Harris in New York
Sunday October 23, 2005
The Observer
It's good news for traditional American men. The metrosexual is
dead: long live the übersexual.
After dominating US style and fashion for several years, the ideal
of the modern male as someone who cared about fashion and skin care
as much as a woman did is about to be swept aside by a return to
old-fashioned, masculine values: fine wines, cigars and red-blooded
heterosexuality.
'Ubersexuals are confident, masculine and stylish, and committed to
uncompromising quality in all areas of life,' said Marian Salzman,
co-author of a new book, The Future of Men
Salzman, a vice-president of the global advertising firm JWT, is
the trend-spotter who first promoted the rise of the metrosexual, a
term lauded and derided in equal measure, as it described a new
sort of man who aped women's tastes.
Now, however, maleness has hit back, she says. While metrosexuals
were obsessed with self-image and lifestyle, the übersexual is
politically aware and passionate about real world causes. The
metrosexual has women who are his best friends, while the
übersexual respects women but retains men as his closest
confidants. The metrosexual grooms his hair: the übersexual grooms
his mind. The metrosexual reads Vogue and Cosmo, the übersexual the
Economist and the New Yorker.
Celebrity metrosexuals include Jude Law, Orlando Bloom and David
Beckham, whose good looks can be seen as slightly womanly.
Their übersexual counterparts include George Clooney, Donald Trump,
Pierce Brosnan and Bill Clinton, who are fashionable and wear
tasteful clothes, but are unashamedly masculine, not least in their
often complicated and very heterosexual lifestyles. Salzman's book
proclaims the world's leading übersexual as the rock star and
anti-poverty campaigner Bono.
But all this is unlikely to provide much comfort for the ordinary
man, who is now being told to dump his feminine side and try to
become an alpha male.
'Ubersexuals are the most attractive and compelling men of their
generations. They are confident, masculine and stylish,' she
said.
Even so, any men hoping that drinking beer and watching football on
TV will be back in vogue have had their ambitions dashed.
The Future of Men warns that being an übersexual is not a licence
for bad behaviour. 'Ubersexuals do not give into the stereotypes
that give guys a bad name, such as disrespect towards women,
emotional emptiness, ignorance of anything outside sports, beer and
burgers,' said Salzman.
Ubersexuality has caused a stir in areas of American cultural life
not normally bothered by fashion trends. Rush Limbaugh, the
notorious 'shock jock', recently mused that übersexuals sounded
rather like him. 'This is what men were before feminism came and
neutered them,' he thundered.
Salzman probably did not have Limbaugh in mind. But some female
commentators - and probably many other women - are celebrating the
passing of the metrosexual. 'What woman wants to compete with a man
for mirror time?' asked Jenice Armstrong, a columnist on the
Philadelphia Daily News .
(source:
The Guardian)
heh heh heh 
[/b]
WELL
SAID.
What a
HUNK!!.
