Talk

Now, lets blame the man

Notable excerpts:

....He has the Audi TT (two seats, natch) and a Clerkenwell loft with acres of expensive square footage. He has the large and carefully housed record collection and Bang & Olufsen audio equipment to play it on; the G4 Mac with the 23in screen; the L-shaped brown sofa from SCP; and the kitchen with industrial-spec Parmesan shaver and stainless-steel tops from Bulthaup. And he doesn't have to share any of this with anyone....

..is what journalist Richard Benson calls a SCREAMER - a Self-Centred, Rich, Educated, Adventurous Materialist. He is what trend-busting magazine Viewpoint calls a Lone Wolf and others have called a Metrosexual. He's the new pink pounder. A straight, single man with few ties, responsibilities or obligations and a healthy bank balance not being drained by dependents. He's the man who loves his technology, furniture (mid-century modernism all the way), Camper shoes and drizzling olive oil over everything. He has learnt to look at himself through the eyes of gay fashion stylists and photographers (the trim waistline, the haircut, the Helmut Lang). He's the whole package....

But the article loses its way after making a couple of insightful comments. To read more of the incoherent attempt to understand the new male-female dynamic from across the pond go to the guardian