“Tattoos, after all, are a passionate, usually doomed assertion of mastery of your own destiny, or at least a defiant embrace of one that you cannot control.”

“In the 21st century mens tits have not just rivalled but replaced womens as the touchstone of sexy in mainstream pop culture, even when the audience for them is other men.”

“Is there a support group for people who didnt like Brokeback Mountain? We must, if the rave reviews and the newspaper reports are to be believed, be a very tiny not to mention vulnerable minority...”

“In a spornographic age its no longer enough for the male body to be presented to us by consumerism as merely attractive, or desiring to be desired, as it was in the early days of nakedly narcissist...”

“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, man-bags or manscara. Or about men becoming girlie or gay. Its about men becoming everything. To themselves....”

“The artistic disposition is little more than an extreme form of sulking.”

“At the dawn of the second decade of the Twenty First Century, masculinity has been rendered so self-conscious in our mediated, mirrored world that even regular guys are apparently just a fashion fa...”

“Contrary to what you have been told, metrosexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, man-bags or manscara. Or about men becoming girlie or gay. Its about men becoming everything. To themselves....”

“Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”