There’s nothing quite so deafening as the sound of liberal America tutting. Mostly, in this instance, they’re deafening themselves. To the sound of their own hypocrisy. The 58-year-old Pulitzer prize winning sports journalist and best-selling author Buzz Bissinger caused a minor tsunami of scandale, disgust and derision a week or… Read More »Buzz Bissinger’s Metrosexy Addiction
by Mark Simpson This month the metrosexual is fifteen. Back in November 1994 I wrote a piece for The Independent called ‘Here come the mirror men’ prompted by a visit to an exhibition in London organised by men’s glossy GQ. In it I claimed to have seen the future of masculinity… Read More »Buy-Curious: Have Men’s Mags Come Out To Themselves Yet?
From this month’s GQ Russia. My Russian is a little rusty, but I think the piece from this 50th anniversary of GQ issue is about ‘Forty Things That Changed Men’s Lives’. I’ve no idea what GQ has to say about me, but all I care about is that: there’s a… Read More »Simpson Tops Arnie and Freud in GQ Spread