Shoaib Akhtar. Famous metrosexual. Likes pouting and t-shirt time.
Forget the issue of extremism among Pakistan’s security forces. We have metrosexuals to worry about, people! Lock up the kids! They’re on the rise in our country’s most cosmopolitan cities!
According to the AFP today, “In Pakistan, as militant Islamists wage war on anything smacking of Western culture, [the] “metrosexual” man is quietly on the rise.”
And you thought they wouldn’t be able to frame metrosexuality in light of the Taliban.
The AFP quoted someone from an advertising agency in Pakistan, who further emphasized that the rise of this “metropolitan heterosexual” man is the result “of a liberalized banking sector and a massive explosion of media.”
Yet another thing to blame Veena Malik for, apparently. Yeh kya baat hui!
The ad man/expert-on-all-things-metrosexual/wannabe-Don-Draper, noted,
Now people have a much greater disposable income because of all the banking reforms we’ve had over the past 10, 15 years where all of a sudden we have people being able to take loans, which was not a possibility in Pakistan before. And the other major influence is the fact that we now have a flourishing media industry. When you’re bombarded with all these new ideas, your consumption increases.
The rise of said disposable income has apparently led to increasingly more men concerned with (gasp) personal hygiene and figuring out that comb-overs are not the only solution to bald spots! According to the AFP, hair transplants are on the rise in Pakistan, and a hair transplant surgeon (err, yes), “sporting a thick head of hair,” told the news agency that a former federal minister and Pakistani cricketer were among his clients.
Michael Kanaan, owner of the Michael K Salon in Islamabad, noted that facials and manicures are also increasingly popular among men. He’s Lebanese too, mentioned the AFP, apparently indicating that this trend has been the result of a “foreign [well-manicured] hand.” Damn Lebanese and their French-sounding Arabic!
But not to worry. Metros draw the line at accessories. David Beckham, your penchant for girly man sarongs and headbands have no place here! Pakistani metrosexuals instead prefer blush and lipstick, [see below]. And feeling pretty.
(AFP) Getting ready for night on the town.
In case you couldn’t tell by my blatant sarcasm, I found this article to be extremely ridiculous. Not only did the AFP inflate male vanity into an entire phenomenon, it lumped every man who cares about their appearance into said category. What, are metrosexuals our new force against the Taliban, armed with hair gel and hairdresser scissors? If militants got manicures, would their well-tamed cuticles lead to a decrease violence in Pakistan?
I’m not even going to entertain that notion with an answer.
Rehman Malik. Another famous metrosexual. Likes purple hair dye.
Hahaha love the “yeh kya baat hui?”
I love how this figure of speech has become ever-popular. Many add ‘Mufti Sahab’ before it, too.
The question really, Usama, is are YOU a metrosexual in hiding? Hmm…
Can anyone translate yeh kya baat hui for me? Thanks!
Loosely translated it means “what does THAT mean?” Implying that the aforesaid thing is ridiculous.
and nowadays should certainly be addressed to most Mufti “Sahabs” so called mainstream Islamic religious scholars who have basically lost the plot, don’t know what anything means, and continue to misguide others either through words or criminal silence against violence.
You are so meannn! And I absolutely love it!
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dude what sort of hairy metro are you putting up here? shoaib’s pretty conscious but he’s not metro by any measure. i mean when he’s playing he’s like a normal guy. sweaty, messed up hair, awkward angle of the shirt from the rear etc.
It depends on your definition of metro – I mean. Shoaib. He likes tight t-shirts. He seems to like his hair a ton. He wears sunglasses on the back of his head. He also likes chain accessories. I’d think he was metro, not even knowing his beauty regimen.
If I see another “rich people enjoy consumerism shocker” article about Pakistan I may jump out of my virtual window.
Rehman Malik, seriously Kalsoom…
Uncle Sargam looks anything but a metro
How about Ghabbar Singh and Sultan Rahi?
It was a joke – I was being facetious. Rehman Malik’s hair is soooo not metro.
I know and so was I
I lurve your photo captions
Brilliant post, Kalsoom!
Haha Uncle Sargam… seriously Rehman Malik should do something about that hair!
To put it in perspective, I think Rehman Malik must firmly believe that he is also a metrosexual. It takes a lot of effort to dye and maintain that tight ‘fro.
Too bad the afro and mustache look is so 1970s.