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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
I do read both:
Women: Bujold, Moon, Fallon, Rusch
Men: Niven, Zelazny, Kelly McCullough, Simon Green
But I don't have any interest in fiction that is supposedly for men. There are many great male and female writers of SF and Fantasy for me to enjoy so no need for a men's genre for me.
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I read a lot of C. J. Cherryh's work. I don't read her work because she's a woman, I read it because I like it. I'll read what I like, not what Esquire gives me permission to like.
The whole metrosexual thing is bizarre. Not the phenomonon itself, but the reaction to it. What is really bizarre is that even among those who scoff when they hear the word "metrosexual", the concept has won.
The idea of it is to be well-dressed and well-groomed. And, by extension, to buy products to those ends. So, you have ads convincing men to buy their grooming products so they won't be seen as metrosexuals. The people who dreamed up metrosexual are laughing all the way to the bank.
I was on one forum where they were talking about men who are balding shaving their heads vs. using a combover. They were saying the combover was "metrosexual", while shaving the head was manly. It is pretty laughable to consider the combover metrosexual, it's about as un-metrosexual as you can get.
A person that is well-dressed and well-groomed is going to be more likely to attract a mate, what's so unmanly about that? It reminds me of a car commercial where a man was embarrassed about having a mini-van. The person with the mini-van has managed to reproduce, it is funny that successfully producing offspring is often seen as a sign of unmanliness.