Any of you who have been reading QRG for any length of time, will know that I helped and supported Mark Simpson publish his 2011 Book, Metrosexy. And that I continue to refer to it, review it and promote it to this day. Why wouldn’t I? It is bloody marvellous. But Simpson has removed some of the evidence of my Metrosexy ‘Eve’ role from his blog. So I have resurrected it, in a section on the Metrosexy wikipedia page (that incidentally, I set up in the first place). Here it is:
‘Metrosexy was published in part due to support and encouragement from Quiet Riot Girl. [1] QRG, a former-academic, now author and blogger, is the main advocate and promoter of Simpson’s ideas and work. [2] [3] Quiet Riot Girl wrote reviews of Metrosexy for various publications [4] [5] [6]. She also conducted interviews with Simpson about the book. [7] [8]
On the publication of Metrosexy, QRG likened Simpson to Roland Barthes, naming him ‘A Roland Barthes for the i-phone generation. Simpson is our very own meticulous observer of the contemporary world, who somehow manages to make the death of culture sound seriously sexy’. [9] Previously, Simpson himself had compared his 1996 Publication It’s A Queer World [10] to Barthes’ Mythologies. But it was Metrosexy that secured his role as a key theorist of popular culture and representation, in the tradition of the famous French ‘semiotician’. And it is Quiet Riot Girl who is writing a book tracing the theoretical lines from Barthes to Simpson and beyond.[11]‘
