So you probably know about the whole "metrosexual" gender label that's been going around for a while now.
Well apparently there's "a new man in town."
I never really felt like I wholly fit into the metrosexual category in spite of my propensity for having an opinion on and engaging in conversations covering interior decoration, fashion dilemmas (both for women and men), helping with wedding color schemes, emotionally charged films in general and Jan Austen films in particular and my apparent disdain for organized sports.
I just never knew where to place my more masculine traits such as my love for the outdoors, my inexplicable gravitation toward motorcycles in addition to the words “horsepower”, “meat” and “dude” the ever present desire to blow something up and the fact that I will always find farts amusing if not down right hilarious.
In relation to the article...can you really believe anything a book about "the future of men" has to say that 3 women wrote?
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I think I broke my back ...
why the need for a label anyway?
though it is refreshing to know this new emerging category of men can appreciate Sense and Sensiblity and hold opinions on weddings, which we know you do :) while still having been through "Man School" (that mysterious place guys get a lot of their 'guy' knowledge that as a girl i have to gain from how-to-books or other man school graduates..yes i admit it)
It raises an interesting question though. In our culture where are men finding their identity? It would seem that maybe the masculine individual is turning to the opposite sex to give them that which they seek. A meaning. A measuring stick to determine how they measure up.
Maybe I'm over philosophizing things.
I do know that the battle over roles in our society rages on and the definition of our individual identities continues to be placed in the wrong hands.
Agreed. The article wasn't intended to carry the depth that I'm may be trying to wring out of it. But it does hint at an underlying issue that you can't deny exists in our culture.
Ricardo. I'm with Brett on this one bro. Bono takes my boyish desire to be a rock star and elevates it to something the man in me can resonate with.
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Hethe - That was probably one of the funniest moment of my middle school years if not my grade school career as a whole.
Kate - Agreed labels, while providing an easy way to categorize individuals without having to get to know them, often and usually fall far too short of accurately describing that individual in any real depth or detail.
You know, I think you hit the nail on the head Nate. While the author of the article didn't see it I think that the issue does run as deep as you're saying. Looking for my identity as a man in what women think was something I struggled with throughout my youth and popular opinions like this would have shaped me back then. I still know men who would read this and compare themselves to the description instead of comparing the description to themselves, if that makes sense. Like any other wonderful thing God made for us we grow to love it too much (like the opposite sex in this case) and put it on a pedestal. I guess it's old fasioned idolatry with a new outfit.
By the way, 10th grade biology, when you passed out ... that awesomely loud fart afterwards was me but I blamed Brad. I was too embarrassed to admit it, even to you. Now I flaunt it. I feel bad for blaming Brad though. Oh well.
My gosh. After all these years...
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