re: Whatever Happened To The Term Metrosexual?

Also known as a dependopotamus

It went the way of sissy, fruit, shim, and gal boy.

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Metrosexual to me in Louisiana or the south specifically was any man who wore something that wasn’t your sports team polo with sperry’s or tennis shoes or some khakis with a solid color polo. And you actually wore something that was dare I say stylish.

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15 or so years ago, when I would go back to Lafayette, my family would refer to what I was wearing as “a little metrosexual” because I was wearing chinos and a button down instead of jeans and a polo

Hipsters replaced metros.


Theyre still metros.

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Hipsters replaced metros.

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No.

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Basically if your clothes fit properly

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Metrosexual was about more than clothes fitting well.

It was a term coined to identify men who were gravitating away from traditional male stereotypes such as sports fan, beer drinker, hunter, handyman, etc...

Basically metrosexuals behaved like gay men in all ways but the anal sex part. They would rather go shopping with the girls than watch football on TV. They enjoyed pedicures and spa days. They drank wine instead of beer. Yeah, fashion was a part of it, but not the only tell.

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Metrosexual was about more than clothes fitting well. It was a term coined to identify men who were gravitating away from traditional male stereotypes such as sports fan, beer drinker, hunter, handyman, etc... Basically metrosexuals behaved like gay men in all ways but the anal sex part. They would rather go shopping with the girls than watch football on TV. They enjoyed pedicures and spa days. They drank wine instead of beer. Yeah, fashion was a part of it, but not the only tell.

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This isn’t true at all for how it was used colloquially

If you saw a man with a haircut wearing flat front fitted pants and a fitted shirt he would have absolutely been called metrosexual.

Now they're just trannies.

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I don't think metrosexual and hipsters are the same thing.

Metrosexuals are like finance bros who get a haircut every 3 weeks and use skincare products and shite.

Hipsters are/were baristas and "artists" with long hair, beards, and tattoos.

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I didn't say they were the same thing. They transitioned to hipsters, meaning once metros became somewhat standard, the demographic that starts these fads moved toward hipster.

They weren't the same. But they were the same demographic.

And not all hipsters were band member or baristas. The "millennial hipster" looked very similar to the metro, just put a beard, thick rimmed glasses, and swap the 1/4 zip with a cardigan

pride used to call me a hipster all the time

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Metrosexual was about more than clothes fitting well.

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Hipsterism just engulfed all the fashionable bros. Same people, just falling for different marketing schemes. Their money is as easy to take.