Hummersexual tendencies

[billyskank]

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 masculinity is in. Guys are guys again, with manly, painstakingly shaped and trimmed beards. They eat manly food, drive manly trucks and read manly books on manliness.

Or so you may have read. Truth be told, this is a phoney war. The "menaissance" is mendacious. This isn't retrosexual at all, but hummersexual - a noisy, overblown, studied and frankly rather camp form of fake masculinity that likes to draw attention to itself and its allegedly old-fashioned "manliness", but tends - like driving an outsized military vehicle in the suburbs - to be a tad counterproductive.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1891712,00.html

[southpaw]

1. Nice article, billyskank... thanks for the link!

I have been ranting to my wife lately about the current stream of commercials that cast men as boorish, testosterone-soaked louts who swill beer and eat noisily. I, personally, take offense to the portrayal of 'real men' being defined as unsophisticated brutes recognizable by their beer-guts and bad manners.

This is no less offensive to me than defining 'real women' as subservient, un-educated housewives.

As to those 'real men' who buy into the marketing... screw them and the Hummers and F-150s they rode in on.

[billyskank]

2. Kick

Because I thought this article made a good point.

[mark414]

3. heh...i like this

i'm about as far from being a metrosexual as they come...but i sure as hell don't try to be a hummersexual either

shit, there's probably more repressed closeted gay hummersexuals than there are in any other "man category"

[Mutley]

4. I'm sure the Republicans in our lives will take quite well to being called

"Hummersexual." Their minds, of course, will immediately go to the Other meaning of a hummer...

As mine did. :blush:

:P

[billyskank]

5. *you* are incorrigible

:hug:

[Mutley]

6. Would you have me any other way?

:hug:

[billyskank]

7. Now you've got me started

:blush:

[Mutley]

8. Ooo, you're bad

That one didn't even occur to me 'til it occurred to you.

:D

[billyskank]

9. That means I am WORSE than you

:hide:

[Mutley]

10. Or better

**AHEM**

Depending on how you look at it.

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

11. "menaissance"

Too funny

[wildhorses]

12. mendacious....even funnier

:wtf::spray::rofl: