I heard the term ‘metrosexual’ twice within last week.
It was first mentioned by my MPhil classmates when I talked about some Hong Kong boys spending time finding the right skincare products for themselves. The second time the term appeared was in a dinner conversation with a Cantonese lecturer who is now teaching in London. He remarked that he felt so uneasy when he was served by a metrosexual salesman at an upmarket shop in Hong Kong.
When I looked up the word ‘metrosexual’ in the Web, I found another striking newly-invented term , i.e. fauxmosexual which means a fashion-conscious, heterosexual male.
Metrosexual: ‘a heterosexual male who has a strong aesthetic sense and inordinate interest in appearance and style, similar to that of homosexual males’.
