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This is the new metro sexual, it is also characterized by a diverse range of talents like
singing, acting and even modeling. Metro sexual is known to be a straight male who is
more sensitive or in touch on his feminine side. Metro sexual men loves his urban
lifestyle and narcissistic in nature that is influenced by whatever they see in magazines
and advertising. Due to modernization men are becoming sensitive to their appearance
they want to become more attractive to the eyes of others; they tend to judge how they
look and what they would look like to be. Being vain is not being gay. Its just today,
modern men have been more stylish, glamorous and self-conscious and being who they
are. Maybe its just they want to establish themselves in the society as elegant and
respected. Mark Simpson once quoted, "Contrary to what you have been told, metro
sexuality is not about flip-flops and facials, man-bags or manscara, or about men being
'girlie' or 'gay'.
Another essay that Dr. Reuben Ramas Canete stressed out in his book Masculinity,
Media and their Publics in the Philippines, shows about the queer publics and their
perception about the Oblation that is known to be originated in the University of the
Philippines. The study about it runs through the ethnographic of the consumers of the
Oblation that was first inaugurated at University of the Philippines, Manila Campus that
was held in November 30, 1935. Over the decades the oblation already migrated, spread
and applied in the different campuses of the system in the University of the Philippines.
The act of heroic sacrifice against foreign aggression has been transformed into a means
of liberating generations of Filipinos from all forms of oppression, through the iconic
pose and location of Guillermo Tolentinos sculpture, the Oblation, within the University
of the Philippines campus. It encompasses the ideas, philosophies, and genealogy of this
statue from the turn of the century to the present, combining approaches in anthropology,
art history, political science, and literary theory in fleshing out the various meanings and
implications of this pose. The demand of this iconic event and statue lead to the various
consumers within or outside the campus, organizations that imposes consumer profile on
their lives and mindsets of the members founded UP Babaylan that accepts members
coming from the LGBT community. The reinforcement is catered by the organizational
logo that depicts the Oblation as a re-embodiment of the organizational advocacy for the
equal rights of the UP-identified LGBT community, this even lead to creating pride
march among the students and the free willing people that looks upon and partake in this
advocacy. The lives, thoughts and daily basis of beliefs are therefore contingent upon the
realizations of their preferred sexes as a formerly suppressed and now oppressed,
ridiculed social minorities who, through the empowering and liberating space was able to
transform their subjection from mere passive receptors of hegemonic hetero sexist
masculine discourse to active negotiators and interjects who critique and question the
dogmas of social normative and sex gender in its natural forms.
The media surrounds us; from the shows we watch on television and the music we
listen to on the radio, to the books, magazines and newspapers that we read each day.
Without the media, we, the people in society, would be cut off from the rest of the world
which include governing bodies, law-makers, and neighboring towns and cities. The flow
of information is important for the expansion of communities and the media aids this.
Without a wide range of information, people's opinions and views would be bounded and
their impressions and assumptions of the world around them, exploited. Though media is
not the only communication means used to distribute the flow of information, its
significance in developed countries is worth mentioning as it is the main source of
informing the people on political issues or current affairs. It is also one of the chief
foundations of entertainment.