By Mark Simpson (Independent on Sunday, 21 Jan 2008) Every child wants to be a zookeeper when they grow up. To run a place where everything is in its place, and has nothing to do but eat, shit and breed – to your timetable. Maybe it’s a yen for revenge… Read More »Waxing Desmond Morris
America’s phoney anti-metrosexual backlash and faux “menaissance” (The Guardian, October 10, 2006) There’s a war going on in the US. A war on metros. After years living under the cruel designer heel of those triumphant metrosexuals, poor old retrosexuals – alias “regular guys” – are fighting back. Old-time, unself-conscious, un-moisturised… Read More »Who Are You Calling Hummersexual?
Poor Mark Latham, the former leader of the Australian Labour Party, isn’t happy with the state of Australian manhood. Like so many things, it isn’t as good or as big or as satisfying as it used to be. In his new book (curiously titled ’A Conga Line of Suckholes’) he… Read More »‘Metrosexual Knobs’ – Can They Satisfy?
The EditorBusiness Week Sir, As the ‘father’ of the metrosexual (and also apparently of his antithetical brother the retrosexual) my attention was drawn to your cover article ‘Secrets of the male shopper’ by Nanette Byrnes. Since she talked so much about my offspring, it would have been nice if Ms… Read More »Faux-Retrosexual Backlash: Letter to ‘Business Week’