Re: masculine/feminine

Fri Jan 27 19:19:28 UTC 2006

i have a series of things i'd like to say on this topic, but here's a
very quick one:

On Jan 27, 2006, at 6:46 AM, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> ... The wonderful real-life citing that
> someone

Geoff Nathan

> sent in the other day about the two guys talking in the gym about
> products speaks to the point: the guy was saying, in essence, just
> because I am
> using a product that is "metrosexual" (I guess that term is still
> used) that
> does not mean that I am 'homosexual'--and of course, in the context
> of a gym,
> where men are usually 'masculine' and may very well be
> 'homosexual', the
> comment could scarcely have been taken to mean 'I am not lacking in
> masculinity'.

odd.  that's exactly the interpretation i put on it.

arnold

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