I don’t remember this. Kids were bullied if they didn’t take showers in my school

Wanting to dress nice as a guy may have gotten you some s*** back in the day tho. Good thing that’s over

They just stop at the stomach area??

I know there’s tons of dude on here walking around with dingleberries on the daily

Metro boomin make it boom

How you know

It ain’t just the hemorrhoids that’s making you sit funny.

Their reasoning is the water and soap run down their body anyways

grown men talking about male asses for 2 pages itt

They really coined a “sexuality” for men who care about hygiene, grooming, fashion, and overall appearance

Metrosexual was more like tweezing your eyebrows type suit not just washing

Metrosexuals are now just called zaddies

I was only a kid in the 2000s were people straight up saying this s*** because someone showered thoroughly?
I mean, there’s no way, right?
There was some other connotation too, right?
Right?

so you right back where you’ve started 🤨

Yeah folks really tried clowning on you for grooming yourself, having a sense of proper hygiene, and fashion.

the bar for men is in hell

Username to thread ratio is insane

Thought OP was just exaggerating for laughs, but it seems like there are a lot of people ITT who actually believe the metrosexual thing was about general hygiene, grooming, and wearing clothes that weren't dirty/cheap.

That's not what it meant.

Being "metro" was when an average heterosexual man would practice grooming and appearance habits that were traditionally attributed to upper class women, and styled themselves in the manner of a fashion model or 2000s tabloid celeb. It also usually included having more "high class" body language and mannerisms, again traditionally attributed to upper class women.

Things like:

• Using a multi-product, morning and night skincare/facial regime

• Buying expensive hair care products and styling your hair in "flamboyant" ways that were beyond just following current trends (e.g., highlighted faux-hawks kept in place with expensive mousse and hairspray)

• Regularly tweezing/contouring eyebrows (having no, or extremely little facial and body hair in general a big recurring element)

• Using glossy lip products and light/subtle makeup everyday

• Speaking like you graduated from 3 different elocution schools and posing your arms in conversation like a 1920s society debutante

It was a term to describe heterosexual men who emulated the stereotypical, big city upper class women shown in popular media at the time. Like the male verson of the S***and the City cast. There were also plenty of guys who did most of the things above but added an emo flair to it. And of course there were plenty of closeted gay men who used it as a convenient cover to avoid suspicion ("I'm not gay, I'm just metro").

Absolutely nobody was being called metro because they showered often and practiced good hygiene. It wasn't even a term mostly used to disparage people — it was quickly adopted into mainstream pop-culture as a self-identifier. Sure some straight guys would be hesitant to be around "metro" guys cause they suspected they were really gay, depending on the kind of community you lived in, but it was also seen as a "cool" thing by many young people.

The general look of Jay Manuel from America's Next Top Model during the 2000s is probably one of best examples of what a stereotypical metrosexual guy looked and acted like.

Yeah Jay Manuel is actually gay, but his general appearance and demeanor is basically what "metro" meant

dingleberries are really just fun surprises.

(METROO)