It’s official. Men’s tits are now more popular than women’s. With men. Men’s Health, the metromag with the pec-fest, ab-tastic covers is now the best-selling men’s magazine in the UK, selling more than 250,000, compared to 235,000 for previous best-seller so-called ‘lad mag’ FHM with its famous cover babes sporting udders almost as… Read More »Final Triumph of Metrosexuality: Men’s Tits More Popular Than Women’s
‘It’s you that needs to watch it. You go out reeking like that and people will start saying things about you!” You were right, Pat, so right. Thanks to Caleb Everett
Mark Simpson on the end of the British love-hate affair with the pretty Portuguese footballer (collected in Metrosexy) Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the best footballers ever to play in this country – and one of the best looking – brought out the worst in the English. He prickled you see,… Read More »We Loved You Really, Ronaldo
You may remember I couldn’t resist poking fun a while back at Canadian Club’s ‘Your Dad Wasn’t A Metrosexual’ poster, the one with with the tag line ‘Damn Right Your Dad Drank It’. It turns out there were several instalments in that faux retro campaign, including ‘Your Dad Never Tweezed… Read More »Damn Right Your Dad Swallowed
How a naughty new D&G ad sums up our self-regarding, clonosexual world (Arena Hommes Plus, Winter 2008, collected in Metrosexy) Most ads these days aren’t worth a first glance. But earlier this year D&G Time launched a heavily-rotated global campaign directed by Hype Williams that was definitely worth a second. If… Read More »Twinsome Devils and the Narcissus Complex