Your Man: Metrosexual or Kinda Gay? :

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With delicious heartthrobs like David Beckham setting the standard for male beauty, it’s totally hip these days for your guy to be metrosexual. It just means his grooming habits may rival yours -- and that he may occasionally steal your moisturizer, borrow you hair highlighting kit, use your tweezers and hog the bathroom longer than you ever did.

But if you’re just getting back into the man pool, or you’ve slept through the whole metrosexual revolution, you might find all of this a little confusing. After all, gay men tend to exhibit metrosexual behavior, but being metrosexual can apply to straight men, gay men and everything in between.

So it begs a classic Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City-type of question: How do you know if the guy you’re seeing is merely metrosexual or kinda gay? There are no books on this, so here’s a purely unscientific, loose primer for sorting out who’s who. The Macho Man
He’s easy to identify, but he’s of a dying breed. The "macho" man is your classic man’s man -- the all-American, beer-drinking, scruffy-looking man who won’t shave unless you tell him to and will need a little fixing up before you take him home to meet the parents. To him, dressing up means a clean T-shirt and nice jeans. He might have traditional and stereotypical views about women, but for him, the lady always comes first.

He is not in touch with his feminine side and might get into a scuffle or two if provoked. Make no mistake about it: He is not metrosexual by any stretch of the imagination. Popular macho types include, Matthew McConaughey, Alec Baldwin, Fred Flintstone and Sylvester Stallone.

The Modern Metrosexual
The typical metrosexual is impeccably well-groomed, lives in the city, has money and loves to spend it -- on himself, not you. He’s trendy, hip and vain and shops at the best stores, belongs to the best fitness clubs and pays particular attention to his hair and fashion trends. If you didn’t know better, you might think he was gay because of his impeccable grooming habits – but he’s not. These guys are straight; they’re just serious about looking good. The biggest telltale sign of a modern metrosexual? He’s likely prettier than you and has better highlights. Think Brad Pitt, Ryan Seacrest and Hugh Jackman.

The Undecided Metro (Kinda Gay)
This is where it gets dicey, ladies. An "undecided" metrosexual might not be straight, even though he’s dating you, a woman. Undecided metros are a combination of bisexuals, men who are confused about their orientation, men who consider themselves straight but who privately engage in sex with other men and a host of others who don’t feel they fit the definition of gay. They are "kinda gay" in that they’re more than just metrosexual, but not overtly gay. With this group, you’ll only know by spending some time with them… then you may start to see behavior nuances.

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