Age

"Oh my god! I woke up one day, and I wasn't fabulous anymore!" You moved to the city to be young, exciting, fresh and impeccably well-groomed -- a proposition that will sooner or later be rendered null and void by the Patek Philippe on your left wrist. The metrosexual takes his lead from gay culture, for better and for worse -- and you know the premium that gay culture places on youth; gay men start lying about their age at thirty. So what if you're forty-five but you look ten years younger? Moisturize all you want -- you're past your expiration date. It's the death of your metrosexual status. Stay in the city if you will, but you're just a spectator now.

Meaning: Death, destruction, disease, obsolescence, dated wardrobe.

Reversed: Endings create interesting possibilities.

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