Metro-sexual Malaysian

By: Hareez

With the trend of metro sexuality gaining popularity among Malaysian men, certain perspectives have been raised both good and bad.

For Hilal Adnan, metro sexuality has become a major part of him and that he said, ‘I’m grateful for the media today, as they have shunned a very positive light on metro sexuality’.

 He then continued to say, ‘though it's mostly due to sell their own products, I still remember a time when I was growing up that people who regard themselves as metro-sexual are seen as a poster child for homo sexual by children and people a like’.

“It’s mostly seen as an oddity to people of older generation,” said Hanafi Aman, another acclaimed metro sexual, ‘my father for one, is a prime candidate that tells how older generation see people who are metro sexual, which is a disappointment to them’.

Nevertheless, “things are a changing,” said Josh, another metro sexual, further saying that, ‘with modernization, people are becoming more tolerate of people with different creed and life style, and I’m grateful that through the media, metro sexuality has become a growing culture which has been positively received by newer generation’.

Likewise, the women community since ages past has always praised men that adhere to the concept of metro sexual, saying that life would be much simple if all men have those particular characteristics.

Alesha, a 23 year old metro sexual admire, says that “it’s mostly to do on mutual understanding and admiration”, continuing that, ‘when men have the tendency to work on themselves to look good and be self-aware, it will make a women’s job less difficult in handling them’.

‘I can say for certain that most women that I know off appreciate and are more likely to date as well as marry men who have metro sexuality tendencies’, said Zaiton Saad a 53 year old housewife.

Further saying that, ‘my own husband is prime candidate of what a metro-sexual should be and that I choose him in a time when metro-sexual is not even a word, back then it’s just called a sense of decency in a men’.

Comparatively, other non-metro sexual has also come to appreciate the vast information to gain from metro sexual people.

Loo Swee Thing, a student studying in Taylor University says that, ‘I never knew how much care metro sexual took to look good, I just assume that it was minimal but then I tried it for myself... it was an utter failure, as I look like a complete loon when I first tried my first hair product’.

‘Furthermore by embracing the idea of metro sexuality, it does not particularly change you as a person, it just means that you just have a finer taste in your wellbeing’, says Faril Hamman, a degree student in Australia.

Adding that over in Australia, metro sexual is as normal as eating “nasilemak” like here in Malaysia and that he doesn’t understand why some Malaysian has a negative view on it.

‘I myself find that metro sexual men are an interesting breed, though I can’t claim myself to be one, I do appreciate the diversity of belief and social life style people have there in Australia’, ‘it has made me open up and accept people as they are without being prejudice’, continued Faril.

Aside from grooming and personal awareness, lots of metro sexual agree that to be one, a person needs to be specialize in other familiarity, such as cooking, gardening, and also sports attribution, particularly cardio activities.

‘This is mostly due that to be a proper metro sexual, he needs to be a person that is well rounded in all matters; especially regarding on one’s health and physique’, says Haffy Malik, a gym trainee as well as an obsessed metro sexual.

Further saying that, ‘your hair style is the most important thing to be aware of and that proper care in terms of hair product and dietary intake is crucial to have proper gloss and softness for your hair’.

With attention to attires, another obsessed metro sexual as well as a fashion advisor, Fasnor Hafiz strictly emphasis that your vast collection of personal attires are the objects that make you known as a metro sexual. 

‘Ranging from hats, pants, shirts, accessories and shoes; one need to be fully equipped with a vast range so that one can be properly adjusts to the surrounding of the events that is attending, social life and personal attire do go hand in hand’, continued Fasnor.

Further saying that, ‘to be a metro sexual, a person also needs to be suave as well as comfortable around people, this then make clothing crucial, as to be comfortable with your surrounding and people, you need to first be comfortable in your own, where in this instance, your clothing’.

By the same token, women has also find interest in getting to know people of metro sexual background, as Fasnor specify that “a lot of women has come to me for advice, both regarding on themselves as well as on their partners”.

‘They belief that sometimes it’s just hard to advice their other significance on fashion and that it’s better to just ask for professional advice for maximum result’, of that, on another note, Fasnor also state that, ‘couples would also come to me for advice on how to throw a Suarez or a party and that most of the times they would pay handsomely to hire me as the party planner.

‘More often than note, the Malaysian aristocrat scene has always been particular in organizing a get together among them and that the more extravagant it is, the better’, furthered Fasnor.

Barring that aside, Kuala Lumpur has become a major metropolitan in recent times, ‘live theaters and fashion shows are coming and going that it seems as a norm these days’, says Zan Yee, a frequent visitor of the city.

Further saying that, ‘there is a demand here for metro sexuality things, the visit I had to a live theatre titled “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit” has shocked me to see that there is more men in that event per session in comparison to women’.

 He then continued to say that, ‘I have never seen myself as a metro sexual and that maybe the idea of metro sexual has been embedded in the social cognitive of society that men this days see it as a norm or an uneventful stuff’.

Nevertheless, ‘maybe the idea of metro sexual is more connected to being cultured and not being well-groomed,’ says Emily, Yee’s girlfriend.

Where she says that, ‘I don’t see metro sexual men as those images the media has portrayed but rather I see them as normal men that have a taste for the cultured and art’.

She further says that, ‘anyone from a professor to a student can be known as a metro sexual if they have interest in watching live performance and going to art gallery’.