Fagotting the body

The blog homo-neurotic often has posts that fascinate me, even if I'm not sure what to 'do' with them. This is one of the most interesting, titled "Faggoting: In Which Physical Perfection Becomes Profane Idolatry For The Masses." It sketches out how the male body has 'evolved' over the last half century and includes some striking photos of male boy-men forms of current trendiness. Here's what the post has to say about recent years:

In the late 90’s designers like Miuccia Prada, Raf Simons, and Hedi Slimane embraced an alternative male. He is slim, youthful, lean, frail, sensitive, lyrical, and odd, a little too odd at the time. This was not a man, it was a boy, and he did not go to the gym he went to the library, and in instead of growing muscle he cultivated interests. It wasn’t these designers alone that ushered in the new look, they were just keen enough to spot a new thing when it was coming. Eventually you had The Strokes, and Bright Eyes, and The Killers, and Larry Clark and Gus Van Sant, and many other cultural points of absorption that softly but effectively said “skinny is ok”. Hedi’s successive appropriation of youth culture from skateboarders to indie British rock stars broadcasted across the fashion cosmos didn’t hurt either. And we find ourselves today in 2008 and those odd skinny creatures are ruling the runways. It’s almost impossible now for any muscle stud to find work in Paris or Milan save for a few fashion dinosaurs that still live out their heydays in the 90’s. Muscles have vacated the realm of luxury and have become especially low brow. The meek truly shall inherit the earth.