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Meet the Metrosexual

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Twenty Years On

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Jul 22, 2022
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Twenty years ago today my essay ‘Meet the Metrosexual’ was published on the (then) popular online US magazine Salon.com, introducing my insistently pretty offspring to America. The piece and he went virulently viral, starting the years’ long outbreak of global metrosexmania.

Thousands of media outlets ran items on him. Several books were written about hi…

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