uber what!?
ok…. so the world now has a new class of male; the ubersexual male. i don’t know who keeps trying to classify us guys, but it’s obviously getting some sort of attention. i’m guessing that writers, columnists, socialogists, can’t figure out what to call the seemingly “new” breed of guys who are stylish, like manicures, are cultured, and so on. which is why the whole metrosexual term came about (a little side note, the term was actually coined by a gay writer who used it to describe certain gay men). and now the world has adopted ubersexual, the more manly side of mextrosexual (or atleast that’s what they tell me). they say that bono is the perfect ubersexual male; stylish, good looking, but you would never question his sexual orientation. has anyone questioned my sexual orientation….
metrosexual. ubersexual. the terms really don’t have anything to do with sex at all. they’re not like other terms that pertain to sexual orientation. they are purily to stereotype. it’s not like we have metrosexual or ubersexual females, just guys. and what’s with the “uber” part of the term, what are we 5 and can’t come up with something more creative. i think that we’re trying to hard as a society to classify. why the need to bring out another catagory.
i think i’m pretty stylish. if i could afford to go to a day spa regulary i would. i enjoy shopping probably more than the average female. i like wines, and throwing dinner parties, and art galleries. i’m also attracted to women. i like hockey, and cars (eventhough i drive an asianed-up civic), and i have toys. so does that make me an ubersexual, or a metrosexual, or neither. maybe i should come up with my own term. though making up my own term would really go against what i’m trying to say. do we really need another term? one’s enough. acutally one is already to many.
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i just call you chinese
you\'re shehstarsexual… no… UBERsheshstarsexual…
I find it strange too Ian, that we have this obsession with classifying people. You see it in every aspect of life, from cool to not cool, athletic to not atheltic, captain of the team, assistants and the lot. And I wonder why it is so necessary to label people, and by doing that, how do we limit them? I was on the train the other day from dartford to Kidbrooke, all places you will soon be familiar with. I was thinking about my day. I spent the day at the mall, and looking back, can very easily see that I was classifying people too by the clothes they wore, the food they ate, they way they looked. I didn't pay any attention to it, but I know that it changed the way that I either did or would have interacted with them. oddly enough, that is a major point of the book "Blink". it's the things that occur in our unconscious that shape our conscious, sometimes without our being aware. One of the points of the book was that a simple meeting such as an interview can be tainted because of the way we view a certain "type" of person. it may not be done intentionally, but a shift in attitude, posture, openness to discussion, can easily change the shape of a social meeting. Go to this website (www.implicit.harvard.edu). it was in the book and they have a bunch of tests to test your unconscious views of different types of people. They are easy, and will surprise you a bit I think. But it's true that when you give someone a label, automatically you are expecting them to act in a manner associated with that label, and anything that strays from that is almost weird or "unlike them". They will often conform their actions to suit that label because that is how they are expected to act. But by labelling someone, we miss all of the extras that come from being free of that. Wow, what a rant. And this is all on a sunday afternoon. I should be napping. peace.
i was wondering when someone was going to pull out the Blink references. i must say that was a very interesting book to read. it really opens your eyes to how even the smallest events or observation can shift our opinions or judgements. i definately recomend the book. it\'s a quick read and very interesting. Blink by Melcome Gladwell.