Originally posted by Ripsnort
To briefly summarize what Nilsen is saying, they are Metrosexuals.
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The word
"übersexual" (from German über = above, superior and Latin sexus = gender) was coined by the authors the authors of the book Future of Men (O'Reilly, Matathia, Salzman, 2005) as a neologism for a patriarchal conception of masculinity. It is a variant of metrosexual, in that the male is "refined", but contains more of an implication of confidence and traditional notions of manhood than the former term. However the authors of Future of Men argue that the übersexual is not derivative of the metrosexual man. The future of men, proclaim the authors, is "not to be found in the primped and waxed boy who wowed the world with his nuanced knowledge of tweezers and exfoliating creams. Men, at the end of the day, will have to rely on their intellect and their passion, their erudition and professional success, to be acknowledged and idealised in contemporary society. Called the 'übersexual'—a degree of greatness and perfection, an acknowledgment that this is an evolved species of man—he is so perfect as to leave little margin for error and fallacy."
Examples of those who could be defined as übersexuals include George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jon Stewart, Diddy, Jay-Z and Bono of the rock band U2, or other such liberal men were all named by ad agency JWT as top übersexuals.
