We all know God created man but you seen man has let himself go a bit. Gone are the days of hunting for food with our six packs and hunting spears, in are the days of sitting on the couch watching the television ordering yet another pizza. Due to a little thing called evolution, over time this has rendered the male species to become overweight beer guzzling hillbillies.So in this modern day where the metro sexual man (David Beckham, Jude Law and Brad Pitt) are the most desirable men on the planet I ask the question do straight men really need the help of a stylish gay man?This help comes in the form of bravo tv's queer eye for the straight guy's fab five.
The premise of "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" is cute, if not a little condescending. Five gay men, each with their own gay superpowers, I mean specialities, descend upon the home of a typical straight man in need of help. They prance and preen and are horrified by the straightness they see before them. The fab five then trains the straight guys to be, not so much gayer, but more fashionable, and well, better looking.When casting for this show obviously, "outrageously gayness" (think Jack from Will and Grace)" was a major determining factor in the producer's mind.
The five "specialists" found fill that need, and then some. Even their names are on fire. We have Thom, the "Design Doctor." Jai, the "Culture Vulture," Ted, the "Food and Wine Connoisseur," Kyan, the "Grooming Guru," and finally, and gayest of all, Carson, the "Fashion Savant."In a nut shell this show attacks straight dumpy white guys for being slobs and transforms them into the new "metro sexual" man, the man with the fancy clothes and dyed blonde spikes in his immaculately kept hair. So I ask the question, are men now more courageous to take a trip down to the nearest beauty salon or is it now cool to be acting this way? And is this why gay men are now accepted in the alpha male world? The answer could lie in the day David Beckham walked around in a skirt on holiday, instead of the wild football hooligan screaming obscenities of how gay he was they quietly looked in their wife's closet for one that would match their skin tone.
<<Who pays for dinner then>>Of course in those days Beckham could score a penalty, but what hasn't changed is how we seam to mindlessly follow our favourite celebrity, if Beckham were to wear one of those fake glasses with the rubber nose and moustache the very next day a wave of these would be sold. So we all like to copy "trend setters" that's been established already, so when these trend setters start to dress more effeminate does the general public start to see the more effeminate gay man as just another brick in the wall? Or is it not the celebrity culture that has created this new breed of man, is it the woman who are now able to support themselves and raise their own children without the help of a man, thus escaping the traditional role of "mother" and "wife". The independent woman does not want to be controlled or told what to do. She will never again be the docile little lamb once sought after for marrying purposes This change in the lives of women in large cities has led to a second major change, this one in men.Men have moved from being the gruff, rugged males to becoming "metro sexual" Men have started to take over some of the duties that women had always controlled. There are women working alongside these men in the office.
And thanks to sexually homogenous advertising, the metro sexual has been created. This new male breed has matching ensembles for every occasion, never has a bad hair day, loves manicures and smells like roses. He has no problem shopping, attending the opera and buying new shoes. The metro sexual is completely in touch with his feminine side but there is just one thing: he is straight but unless otherwise stated could just as easily be seen in a gay club than an office, so is it that the gay man is now accepted, because he does not stand out anymore, because that super tight T-shirt and waxed body are now common place.
So in conclusion being gay is ok, men who dare to moisturise is cool and women don't need a man to earn the money. So who pays for dinner then?
