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 media outlets ran items on him. Several books were written… Read More »Meet the Metrosexual – Twenty Years On
Football may not be coming home, after England’s Euros finals defeat earlier this year. But football’s greatest star, and perhaps the world’s most famous face and body, is going to be ‘back where I belong’. In England. According to his recent Insta post (336m followers). The striking Portuguese striker Cristiano… Read More »Ronaldo’s Coming Home
The world’s most famous man this week became the first person to pass 250 million followers on Instagram. A milestone in human e-volution. Already the most popular personality on social media, 35-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo is now just rubbing our noses in it. The Juventus star has 100 million more followers… Read More »Cristiano Ronaldo’s Insta-Lovefest
Mark Simpson on the (self) sexualisation of the male body Male self-objectification is, as they like to say on social media, a “thing.” There’s been a rash lately of so-called “gender flip” memes, in which people pretend to be impressed by male hipsters pretending to subvert sexism by ironically adopting… Read More »Objectify Yourself: Why Straight Young Men Crave Gay Adulation
‘Metrodaddy’ Mark Simpson on the evolution of male vanity (Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph June 10, 2014 – with a title I did not choose) In a development which will probably have him running to the mirror yet again to search anxiously for lines, this year the metrosexual leaves his teens and… Read More »From Metrosexual to Spornosexual – Two Decades of Male Deliciousness