So metrosexuals are over? The heteropolitans are in? I never saw many metros here in CA. Sure there are some Hollyweird types but they're mostly in the LA/Hollyweird areas. Now this new heteropolitan thing sounds interesting.
Sort of.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2609309.ece#2007-06-03T00:00:04-00:00

Goofy quiz/test at the end.

What's next? Real men being themselves? Imagine that...

What's next? Real me being themselves? Imagine that...

I can't imagine that.

Wow, one more spurious label that has no application in the real world.
What will they think of next?

I'm a metrosensual.

With marketing firms increasingly keen to divide men into distinct tribes, their targets can be forgiven for feeling confused and cynical about the latest labels: a bewildered minority wonder why they should care.

But increasingly, men do care. Psychologists say heteropolitans are driven by the human tendency to cope with life's diversity by categorising each other.

"We live in a pseudo pop-psychological age and anything like 'heteropolitan' sounds terribly valid," said Dr Aric Sigman, an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.

"This is very managed masculinity that comes with designer stubble and a feigned interest in football, when your social background has no link with any of it. It's distracting from what's really going on, which is that people are becoming more atomised and narcissistic."

That "luxury of narcissism" came with the explosion of credit that transformed the Britain of the 1970s into a superficially affluent nation, he said.

French journalist Agnès Poirier suspects that, far from needing a label, smarter-looking men were simply a consequence of globalisation, having rubbed off nations where style was high on the agenda.
What a load of bollocks.
"In France it's just the norm. Looking good is a cultural thing," she said. "But in Britain there's this idea that looking good is slightly suspicious."
In Britain there's also the idea that this is a bunch of pseudo-quasi-pop-psychological bilge dreamed up by bored marketing men. Devoid of substance, alien to most people's realities and written by media whores almost exclusively for media whores.

Disgusting, in the final analysis. Symptomatic of everything that's wrong with modern, and particularly Western, society. Almost enough to make me convert to Buddhism, in a spurious quest for some kind of spiritual fulfilment - if that wasn't such a typical heteropolitan thing to do.

What's next? Real me being themselves? Imagine that...

Ain't it funny how so many people wish to define themselves by their sexual habits and desires?

Are they really so shallow and unimportant that the only way to define themselves is by their weird, strange sexual pleasures?

Baron Max

Guess so.:confused:

Nothing to do with sexual habits, Max, and everything to do with facile, soulless marketing demographics. Pseudo-psychological nonsense designed to sell you the latest mobile phone, that's all. It's safe to completely ignore it. Your quality of life won't be significantly diminished if you pay it no attention.

Nothing to do with sexual habits, Max, and everything to do with facile, soulless marketing demographics. Pseudo-psychological nonsense designed to sell you the latest mobile phone, that's all. It's safe to completely ignore it. Your quality of life won't be significantly diminished if you pay it no attention.

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