A New Kind of Candy. A New Kind of Equality
By History has seen all kinds of men: the artist, the gentleman, the nerd, the macho man, the bad boy, the athlete, the intellectual. But he is something new. He is a product of a new culture and new attitudes. He is a product of new needs. He is the metro man. You have all seen him. He has a great body, not too skinny, but not too buff. Just nicely proportionate. He has a great haircut that he changes very often. He dresses trendy. His skin looks great. He smells great.
You might have heard he is not manly enough. You might think he is not manly enough. You might think he is not heterosexual. To that I have only one thing to say: It takes a guy comfortable with his sexuality and certain in his manhood to be a metro man.
You don’t want to know how he manages to look the way he does. That I learned the hard way. One of my best friends changes his hair color according to the season: dark in fall and winter and blond in spring and summer. My ex boyfriend has three different tanning lotions and sprays to maintain his perfect skin complexion. And he uses all of them together! My roommate (yes I do live with a guy) takes showers that last two hours. Another one knows more about designers and fashion than I do. (I know what you are thinking, but no, he is not gay.) Yet another one has more moisturizing lotions than I do. He uses them according to his mood, schedule and who he meets during the day. Yet another one has more scarves than I do and I do have a huge collection. Yet another one uses his colognes according to a schedule.
But it really doesn’t matter how he manages to look the way he does. We, women, don’t care about the hours he spends grooming. We don’t care about the efforts it takes him to achieve his appearance. All we care about is the fact that he looks so great. Why? Because we deserve it!
Millenniums of changing what we are given. Millenniums of putting up with torturous procedures just to meet men’s ideas for beauty. Millenniums of putting up with being men’s jewelry. Now is our turn to demand human jewelry hanging on our arms. Now is our turn to see men going through the same torturous procedures we’ve known for millenniums. Now is our turn to see men trying to change the way they look to meet our requirements for beauty.
Yes, we deserve it.
We supposedly live in a society of equality. But we don’t. We don’t get paid as much as men do. We don’t get the same benefits. We don’t get the same treatment. With the metro man we get a new kind of equality. We get the opportunity to go out to dinner with a guy who smells great. We get the opportunity to kiss a clean and smooth chest. We get the opportunity to date a guy who looks great. We get the opportunity to date a guy who appreciates our efforts to look amazing because he knows what it takes.
Yes, we deserve it!
Image is taken from FFX © florbelas fotographix.
This article is part of 4-part series: Millennials on Metrosexuality
Read the other three:
Why I Hate Metro Men
Being Metro is More Than A Label
Males Against Metrosexuality
