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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Rowan Berkeley
Published Letters: 176
it was according to wikipedia the London 'Independent' thta started it, but their definition is as mothing compared to this barrel of complete bollocks, which has nothing whatever to do with Barack Obama, or anyone outside the media mirror world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual
The term increased greatly in popularity following Simpson's 2002 Salon.com article "Meet the metrosexual", Simpson's Salon.com definition is more nuanced than the term's common use today.
"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis – because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.
"For some time now, old-fashioned (re)productive, repressed, unmoisturized heterosexuality has been given the pink slip by consumer capitalism. The stoic, self-denying, modest straight male didn't shop enough (his role was to earn money for his wife to spend), and so he had to be replaced by a new kind of man, one less certain of his identity and much more interested in his image – that's to say, one who was much more interested in being looked at (because that's the only way you can be certain you actually exist). A man, in other words, who is an advertiser's walking wet dream."
-- this is the label your masturbatorium created.
It's not the fact that men masturbate, but the fact that the public discourse regarding the masturbating man is so arch, and coy, and full of induced aversion to homosexual imputations. This presumably is why the advertising agencies so loved the Salon.com treatment of 'the metrosexual'. Such a man is so easily manipulated by his own shame, it's almost his own fault. I recommend Austin Spare's "Book of Pleasure, or Self-Love" as an antidote. It's completely free!
http://www.hermetic.com/spare/pleasure.html
An MI5 officer has been forced to resign after admitting that his wife was a prostitute who took part in a notorious “Nazi-style orgy” with Max Mosley, the Formula One racing chief. The intelligence officer, who cannot be named for security reasons, left the service last month after it emerged that his wife was one of the five call girls who took part in the sadomasochistic sex session with Mosley. Exposure of the lurid orgy led to calls for Mosley, the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the wartime British fascist leader, to step down from his post as president of the FIA, the governing body of world motor sport.
In an extraordinary turn of events yesterday, MI5 was forced to deny through Whitehall channels that the orgy had been a “sting” that it had set up to discredit Mosley. “Any suggestion that the service was involved in setting up Mosley is total nonsense,” a senior Whitehall official said. The official did disclose, however, that one of MI5’s officers had left the agency after his wife’s involvement as a call girl in the orgy became known. “I cannot talk about individual cases, but we do expect high standards of behaviour from all staff at all times, both professionally and privately,” the official said. “In any case where a member of staff is believed to have fallen below those standards, action will be taken.”
The officer is understood to be in his forties and to have served in the military before joining MI5, where he was involved in surveillance operations. The disclosure is a severe embarrassment to Jonathan Evans, director-general of MI5, who is understood to have informed Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, and assured them the agency was not involved in any sting. Questions will now be asked about why the service’s vetting procedures failed to expose the secret, which could have made the officer vulnerable to blackmail.
according to the sunday telegraph version, "the MI5 agent's prostitute wife engineered the sting. The man was a surveillance operative with several years of service. His wife, 38, is believed to have approached the News of the World when she realised that Mr Mosley, a regular client, had booked five prostitutes for a sex session costing £2,500." The assertion that the agent's wife did this on her own is an instance of what is called 'plausible deniability' in action.
anyway, following the subtext I was eliciting yesterday, it strikes me that real men, by definition, neither masturbate nor employ prostitutes, because they have gained sufficient status within the imaginary 'tribe' to be able to demand women and get them. This curious sort of thinking not only underlies mass media "normality" but remains unchallenged, because no one dares to spell it out in print. Advertisers - even salon.com advertisers - can be expected to complain if such things are said openly, since they undermine the motivational logic of their advertising campaigns.
Salon.com is plagued by a persistent pop-under, which I cannot seem to block, and get nowhere else. The combination of switching to Firefox and installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 has left me without weapons against these bloody things, but at least this one seems at the moment to be content to advertise american express credit cards, nothing more sinister than that.
You say "You've been on one too many pub crawl, Rowan. Or, produce an instance to substantiate this."
(1) I do not drink. I haven't drunk alcohol for over a decade.
(2) An instance is your attempt to smear me. That is an instance of the advertisers complaining, via you. I must have hit a nerve, eh?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
