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Wikipedia (i.e. anyone on the planet) provides a definition of metrosexual:

a portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual, is a neologism of the 2000s that refers to a heterosexual man (especially one living in a post-industrial, capitalist culture) that has a strong concern for his appearance or a lifestyle that displays attributes stereotypically associated with homosexual men.

I live in Melbourne, Australia, which is maybe post-industrial and capitalist.

My concern for my own appearance is moderate to low. I shave daily, but some of my tshirts are over a decade old.

I don’t have a lifestyle that is in any way stereotypical of homosexual men.

That basically rules me out of this trendy-sounding group.

I’d be curious to know whether 型男 is translatable as metrosexual.

Here we are in Taiwan! We flew into Taipei just the other day and we’re staying in a fairly central hotel in the city.

Yesterday we caught the 高铁 train to Taizhong, without any actual plans of anything to do there. Our real objective was to catch the 高铁 itself.

Today we’ll probably go to the 诚品 bookshop. It’s a chain of bookstores, some of which stay open 24 hours!

Last night we jumped in a taxi, and the driver said he’d been to Wuhan, China. That’s where we were a few years ago, for 6 months. He asked us whether we’d ever been to the Yellow Crane Tower which, regrettably, we haven’t. It’s one of the most famous attractions in Wuhan, if you exclude the Three Gorges, which is a little way out of Wuhan itself.

The Honda HRV. I love them. Too bad they stopped making them in 2001.