What does the term “metrosexual” mean?
Tossed around like a green salad, metrosexual has become the phrase of the moment, replacing the overused Snoop-inspired “izzles” and the Arnold-inspired “governator” phenomenon. To get to the heart of what it means to be a metrosexual, we went straight to the slang-o-rific Urban Dictionary for some edification. There we found over 70 user-provided definitions. While some were completely worthless and even vulgar, the collection gave us a sense for the meaning of the word. Culling what we learned, we assume a metrosexual is a straight guy fastidious in appearance, in touch with his feminine side, and living in an urban area. We learned that writer Mark Simpson introduced the word into our everyday vocabulary. In a Salon.com article on David Beckham from 2002 titled “Meet the Metrosexual,” Simpso
