"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Jack Goff wrote:

Pssst... Chuck. The term "metrosexual" has been around for quite some
time, and Fox did not coin it. I heard it from my liberal friend who
lives in Atlanta, who heard it from all his liberal friends. He
thinks it's funny, and he *is* metrosexual. And it has nothing to do
with sex or reproduction, either.

Sheesh. Talk about knee-jerk.

Amazing. After hearing any term enough it becomes a standard part of
the vocabulary.

The term has to do with masculinity, and implies that people living in
cities (metro) will be have a different sexuality than those who do
not. (sexual). It expresses the idea that there is a sort of different
sex that is only found in cities. If it was intended to mean something
else, it was poorly coined.


It was someone's attempt to be clever, but I see you weren't amused. It
was coined to refer to someone, probably from an urban setting, who was
straight but had many of the personal interests and characteristics often
associated with gay men, ie "queer eye for straight guy" fab five.
Imagine Carson only straight.

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