Middle class metrophobia keeps rearing its ugly, anxious head and leaving a really bad smell in the air. Maybe it’s because some middle class men are happier pretending that they don’t have bodies, just giant self-propelled brains (that are always right), but men’s new-found desire to be desired and the… Read More »Geordie Shore Lads & Charlie Brooker’s Anxious Anus
David Beckham, global poster-boy for metrosexuality, sporting an Edwardian beard, had a hot date with Obama at the White House today. Though he had to bring his team-mates along as LA Galaxy were being honoured with a reception after winning the Major League Soccer Cup, America’s equivalent of the Premiership. After… Read More »The Perfect Mandate: Obama & Becks (& the Media)
It’s always tricky as a writer talking to a researcher for a TV or film documentary. On the one hand you want your ideas to be taken seriously and the historical record to be as accurate as possible. And of course we all like attention. Especially from a visual medium… Read More »Winsome, Losesome, Mansome
Mark Simpson interviewed by Clement Ghys in France’s Liberation newspaper about the evolution of his metrosexual offspring – and Justin Timberlake’s ass. Unedited English email Q&A, April 2012 CG: In 1994, you coined the term “Metrosexual”. Looking back, how would you say the concept has evolved? In what way do… Read More »‘Mâle Au Corps’: Mark Simpson talks to ‘Liberation’
Are men the new women? I’ve always avoided using that line until now. As the (hetero)sexual division of labour and loving and looking continues to fall apart, men are the new everything. Just as women are. But in the last few months we’ve been told men now take longer getting… Read More »Let Me Hear Your Body Talk