The rest of Simpson's definition...
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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.
Gay men did, after all, provide the early prototype for metrosexuality. Decidedly single, definitely urban, dreadfully uncertain of their identity (hence the emphasis on pride and the susceptibility to the latest label) and socially emasculated, gay men had pioneered the business of accessorizing masculinity in the '70s with the clone look enthusiastically taken up by the mainstream in the form of the Village People. Difficult to believe, I know, but only one of them was gay and 99 percent of their fans were straight. |
I think Simpson may have indentified, but miscategorized and stereotyped for entertainment purposes, an underlying shift that's slowly emerging amongst heterosexual males.
As I've posted
elsewhere, I believe homosexuals are an evolutionary solution to fill a gap. If the underlying gap is filled by men who exhibit the best of feminine traits (from an evolutionary perspective), and who are sexually attracted to females, the need for homosexual males may very well be rendered vestigial and disappear.