Men, Metros and Metro-sexual Men

Gay, Homosexuality, LGBT blah blah blah has nothing to do here, so if you are disappointed, hell with you. The concepts of metrosexual men/ metrosexuality have found its origin in the mid 90s when there was a sudden rise in the disposable income and men started becoming conscious about their appearance with more money available to spend on trying to look good. If you try to Google this term (I am sure more than half of janta would do it after reading this) it looks to be a neologism portmanteau (I dont have any clue WTF it means) of metropolitan and heterosexual (cut the two words and find a new one – metrosexual and heteropolitan, that’s one more new word invented). Earlier, there were men, self – denying, reticent, ignorant towards their avatar; they could manage to glance at the fashion magazines at airport book stalls and only observe what the advertisement speaks about and were least concerned about the looks that male model use to carry.

Times change, people change and now have changed the way they look at each other. Modern day women are expecting these changes in men they meet or live with. She wants her bf or husband or brother to look as the way she wants to see him. She want him to be more conscious about the complexion of his skin, get his eyebrows done; he should also try and understand that pedicure is feet- pampering and not dog food. He may not have the thickest arms or flat abs but at least should be palatable enough to get carried along in this capitalist culture.

I felt this when I started getting strong comments from my younger sisters on my complexion, my dirty crooked hairy feet. My sisters, don’t know why, think they could change me into somebody more striking than what I am today unfortunately. The benefit of having younger sisters is you get to gauge yourself by the world’s most critical eyes that would never qualify you, as the set benchmark would be either Shahid Kapoor or Rithik Roshan. So, you keep working hard on things that matter, encouraging yourself to pump iron everyday and still not even cross 3 on their scale of 1 to 10. Yeah, 1 being the most non-happening, the one that you are, they keep reminding me.

The men's world is now slowly moving towards übersexual that idealizes men like George Clooney, David Beckem, and SRK. Each of these men have the “Charisma’ that can definitely inflict the change in you. Anyways, I somehow agree, its not bad to try something to look good and be more acceptable to eyes that really want you to look good.