The Menaissance

There’s been a few articles recently about the return of the lad. In the Observer, Paul Harris writes from New York about the return of manliness and suggests that if it’s true – we’ll see a more modern version this time around.

This is a long way from the metrosexual ideal that dominated debate five years ago. Indeed the metrosexual bible, the male shopping magazine Cargo, has now folded. The new trend has even been dubbed retrosexual… but women need not despair just yet. The truth of the new emerging American masculinity is more complex than just the re-emergence of the sexist brute. Beneath the outrageous bluster and bawdy humour is a deeper picture of the male sex’s struggle to adjust to a world of sexual equality.

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