The fashion industry has its knickers in a twist over "manties."
It's part of a special lexicon that has emerged, over the past decade, as a sort of shorthand for men's fashion. Men can also wear "mandals" (male sandals), "murses" (purses), "mantyhose" (pantyhose) and "mankinis" (swimsuit variants)—though not necessarily all at the same time.
At first, the neologisms were a kind of secret language among the fashion industry, etymologists say. Yet they're going mainstream. Now, editors of the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary are tracking them for possible inclusion.
The men's collection shows at New York Fashion Week, which kicks off Thursday, could give rise to more neologisms. Fashion editors often lack the words to describe wacky runway concoctions.
At Hermès' women's fashion collection in March, for example, "poots" was coined to identify a pair of leather pants that segue into boots.
But not everyone is thrilled about the emerging vocabulary. Some fashion types complain that it's emasculating.
"Manties is pretty high on the repellent meter," says Glenn O'Brien, author of "How To Be A Man" and a style advice columnist at GQ magazine.
The very fact that there IS a "GQ" for this uber-boob to be 'advising' for shows how far we've slipped. Seque? The leather pants, 'seque' into the boots? Men do not wear clothes that include the word 'seque'. Unless they are gay men, that is.
And, Mr. O'Brien also wrote, "How to be a Man"? Seriously? But t be fair, to the authir and to show that he's 'in the know' of all things concerning hetero dudism, here's another article by Mr. Obrien, from 2001.
- Ten Things That Look Too Gay
Gay is good. Gay is great. But isn't sexual orientation so much more fun when you have to guess a little?
No Mr. O'Brien, it isn't, UNLESS you ARE gay. Only gay men would play this game. And contrary to popular belief, there is NOT a gay man inside all of us, wanting to get inside YOU.
Personally, I had no idea there were levels of gay. Did you? As there are no levels of straight, the 'fact' that there are levels of gay kinda got by me. Levels of gay? He actually wrote that? Yeah, this is THE guy to go to for help being a manly man. I'm betting he's a good source for "How to hide a Salami" too and I'm so sick of this whole concerted, media love of role line blurring, pro-anything BUT hetero-sexualty I could puke.
But a good honest man puke, not a metro-sexual upchuck, or cookie blow.
Schteveo
6 comments:
This is nothing new. The advertising industry, along with the PC'ized media and TV industry, has been doing everything they can to "feminize" American men for years. I'm not sure about the rest of the country, but here in NYC, all the major news stations have females as their main on-air personalities. What males are with them have been totally feminized, and are clearly subserviant. It's quite obvious they've all be properly PC'ized, and this includes Fox.
And another thing, WHEN was THE last ^%$#@*^, *^$%^, *^$@# time you met a guy, 40 and under, who did NOT surrender his nuts and spine at the altar!? My youngest brother is 51 and did this crap at 39. It's the GD'st thing I ever saw.
The Pussification of America!
Don't get me wrong, I don't believe men should run rough shod over their wives either. There is a balance! I just don't think it can be reached if BOTH of you wear undies and your clothes 'seque', go to a spa for your nails and eat 'veggies for din din'.
Or should that be pronounced, 'theque' and 'veggieth'? I'm pretty sure this is NOT what the founders imagined as equality.
I thought of another one!!!!!
I challenge you to go to almost ANY home in America, with a mom and dad, and PROVE to me, without going into a closet or dad's dresser, and PROVE to ME, that a MAN lives in that space!!!
Every room in that house will scream MOM, a few might say kids, but Dad is assed out. I grew up in a home that was SPOTless, my 81 y/o mother is still a clean freak, We had decent furniture, but it was not feminine! It was a FAMILIES home, not a FEMALES home.
Then again, if you have no nuts or spine, maybe you like that kinda girlie atmosphere. I'm intact, so I don't have that out look.
No problemo here. I live alone, which means i don't give-a-shit if the bath towels don't match! ;)
To quote Andrew Dice Clay, "You either suck dick or you don't suck dick". And now I have to wonder if Poots wears "poots"?
If the towels really matched, they would read "his" and "his"
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