QRG LIVES! A Links Round – Up

The last week or so has not been brilliant for QRG Towers. There is a chance you may have read some pretty nasty things about me online. At one point I considered the possibility that I might have to shut up shop altogether. So I am very relieved and delighted to announce that… QRG LIVES! [...]

A Note About Metrosexy, @marksimpsonist ‘s Tour de Force

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 [...]

Metrosexy PVC On Ice

The Daily Mail got a bit hot under the collar today as Jorgie Porter (who?) performed her dancing on ice routine in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2093592/Dancing-On-Ice-Jorgie-Porter-performs-racy-PVC-leather-outfit.html But the DM didn’t mention that her partner, a buff metrosexy man, also performed in a ‘racy PVC leather outfit’ and maybe even looked better than she [...]

Metrosexy Soldiers: Again!

Remember the LMFAO ‘Sexy and I Know It?’ hit of 2011? I have seen a few amateur videos of metrosexy young lads re-enacting it. So it was only a matter of time before the armed forces got in on the act. Why should they miss out on all the fun? Actually this rather bitter Guardian [...]

Talking To Mark Simpson (To Myself) About ‘Retrosexual’

In a recent interview for an Italian magazine, Mark Simpson mentioned some old friends of his – ‘hummersexuals’. He said: ‘Hummersexuals are guys who over-emphasise their masculinity with ‘manly’ accessories in a way that makes you wonder what they’re covering up. Retrosexuals are merely pre-metrosexual.’ This is consistent with what he wrote about Hummersexuals, back in [...]

Mark Simpson’s Pitbull Speaks!

I get called a lot of names. Some of them are in relation to the work I do advocating the ideas of Mark Simpson. One of the names that stuck with me the most, was Mark Simpson’s Pitbull. When I was first given that moniker, by an uptight supergay gay American man, I was annoyed. It [...]

Freedom In A Puritan Age – Or Not.

Just before Christmas I received a lovely email, from the editor of Freedom In A Puritan Age online journal, enthusing about the book,  Metrosexy by Mark Simpson. The editor asked me to write a review and of course I agreed. I am the only person who has properly reviewed Simpson’s brilliant survey of the rise and rise of men’s [...]

Freedom In A Puritan Age – Metrosexy Review

This is my review of Metrosexy by Mark Simpson, published in Freedom In A Puritan Age website/magazine: If you were to listen to feminists, and the media in general, you might think we live in a culture in which ‘sexual objectification’ refers solely to women and girls. As some would have it, we are ‘bombarded’ by [...]

The Origins of Simpsonism: By The Metrosexy Messenger

http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/12/15/male-impersonators-now-available-as-a-kindle-ebook/ Mark Simpson has just released his 1994 classic, Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity, on Amazon Kindle. Apart from it being a great book, and a major contribution to the literature of gender and masculinities, Male Impersonators is important because it includes the beginnings of Simpson’s theorising of metrosexuality. It represents his ‘original contribution to [...]

MetroDaddy Speaks! (About his latest Kindle publication)

http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2011/12/15/male-impersonators-now-available-as-a-kindle-ebook/ ‘I deployed ‘metrosexual’ as journalistic shorthand for the freighted theory of M.I. Reading M.I. you may decide that the shorthand said rather more than the longhand.  If Male Impersonators was the theory of metrosexuality,Metrosexy, my recent collection of metro journalism, documents the way metrosexuality went on to conquer the culture over the next seventeen years – [...]