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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: Is Nathan a metrosexual?: Archive through August 07, 2003

Iscreamer1

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Talk about in touch with their feminine side, did anyone just see the live feeds with the Jee3 discussing wether or not Justin should leave a button buttoned or unbuttoned. Actually it was very cute

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It amazes me that people actually have the need to come up with new labels with which to pigeonhole people that they don't even know.

Should there be a new term for sophisticated men that like to wear overalls? Maybe we call label them"Farmsexuals"? Or women that like to wear overalls....they can be "gynofarmsexuals". Maybe we could call a female butler a "domestisexual"...? What label should we hang on female to male transexuals that are well groomed...should we start calling them "transmetrosexuals"?

Why can't they just be what they ARE...."people"... who just happen to be non-stereotypical individuals? Why must they be labeled in such a way that makes it easier to make fun of them?

<just being sarcastic....I find this whole thing ridiculous.>

Bastable

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
SFJF, an idle mind is the devil's playground.

Max

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From your lips to God's (and the public's) ear, Sanfran!!! :)

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
PS - I have not heard anyone use the term "metrosexual" as a *respectful* description...it's simply a new trendy way to put someone down.

That's just sad.

Laisey

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sanfran, I'm almost embarassed to admit this, but I don't recall ever hearing the term until I read this thread. I guess I just don't get out around the wrong people enough.

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 05:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Laisey - I never heard it before a couple of weeks ago either. I'm not embarrassed about that though! I wish I *still* had never heard it! :)

Hermione69

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 06:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm a gynofarmsexual.

Puzzled

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 06:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
We had this discussion on another forum and some of us decided that metrosexuals were fop-o-sexuals.

Costacat

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 06:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, I have heard the term used quite frequently around here lately. In a positive way. So yes, although it IS a label (and I agree with Sanfran... why do we need labels?), it wasn't used in a derogatory manner at all. Much like the YUPPIE label from a few years back.

Ocean_Islands

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 07:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Actually, on CNN.com and elsewhere the media is hyping it up as the new 'cool' human-type of person to be.

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 07:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hermione, I am a gynofarmsexualwannabe.

Maris

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 07:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
he is a pissed off metrosexual.

Seanflynn2003

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 07:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
soon to be sequestsexual

Squaredsc

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl sean.

Beruthiel

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 08:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sorry for the double post, got file-lock the first time.

Beruthiel

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I never heard of the term either, until today, and I was joking about the labelling because to me Nathan is just narcissistic.
It's amusing to me that so-called 'new' terms are always being coined when there are perfectly good ones already in existence.

Sorry if you are offended, Sanfran, no offense meant, truly.

Ack! File-locking error, trying again...

Sanfranjoshfan

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 11:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Beruthiel - Oh I didn't take any offense from anyone here...it was just that when I've heard the term used (a few times in talk shows recently) and it seemed to me that it was just a new way to label a man as being one with less than his fair share of masculinity. That kind of description (narcissist, fop, dandy, etc...) is usually not meant as a compliment.

Of course, *some* people might find it complimentary...but it just strikes me as somewhat of a put down.

In any case, don't worry! I wasn't offended! :)

Beruthiel

Wednesday, August 06, 2003 - 11:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm glad you weren't upset with us, Sanfran, and point taken re the 'labels'!
Thanks for replying, because I NEVER want to hurt anyone, and if I do, I hope folks know it is inadvertent, not intentional. I get caught up sometimes in the playing on words, and thus thoughtless - me bad!
Peace!

Bohawkins

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 01:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I really think that this trend of men shaving off their body hair is very strange. It seems to me to be an effort to achieve some sort of sexual neutrality or to even a desire regain a lost level of sexual immaturity. Perhaps they are afraid of growing up, some variation of a Peter Pan complex. Women shaving their pubic hair (or having it laser removed) so that they take on a juvenile pre-pubescent look fits that category. The next step maybe women having their breasts reduced so that they look like 12 year olds. This could be the look of the future culture, people appearing as though they have not reached puberty.

Incidently, hair on a man's chest is a secondary sex characteristic. Removing it could be an individual's way of expressing that he is not ready to accept adulthood or perhaps that he just doesn't feel worthy of it.

I like the trend, because I have been blessed with a hairy chest. I am finding new respect from women in beach settings. Sometimes it is as though they are looking admiringly at a sexually mature man for the first time (almost.. "so that's what a man looks like"). In my experience women tire of boys and enjoy the move up to discovering the benefits of being with someone with true manhood.

Wendo

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 01:17 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I just have to poke my nose in regarding a woman shaving ones, ahem, private area completely off....NO THANKS. I don't mind a trim here and there but there's NO WAY I'd go "bald" down there. LOL!

Squaredsc

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 06:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
um bo i would like to comment on why some women shave down there but it would be a lil too graphic. and we should really talk bout that beach comment too. and i do like a man with a hairy chest but not cause of the reason you gave, lol.

Costacat

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 06:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Costacat is very glad that Squared "went there" cause Costacat wasn't gonna "go there" for all the bellinis in the world! <snicker>

Squaredsc

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 07:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
well costa since i went there it deserves a special bellini right?

Max

Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 08:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Shaving of pubic hair for women has been en vogue for a while now. I believe the trend was started by the porn industry, but now it seems to have caught on with a much (you should excuse the expression) broader audience. This, along with the generally accepted image of beauty for women being very small in the hip area and large in the bust area prompts some observers to comment that the "idealized" image of the female body is that of a preadolescent with large breasts.

Perhaps the trend is starting to go over to men as well in regards to shaving of body hair and generation of an image of an adolescent body type instead of a fully developed adult.

I don't know. I do know that I have never particularly cared for extremely hairy men. Especially back hair! EEK!