Otomen, Metrosexual, S.N.A.G, Girly men Pride!

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So Im a self declared Otomen, A japanese word for coined in japan, its a play on the words Otome meaning

meaning Otome (japanese) for girl or girly or used as slang for mistress. and the english word men combind.

The Equivilents for in the US and many parts of the world is :

*Metrosexual
*S.N.A.G - Sensitive new age guy
*Girly men - super feminine straight men.

I would of posted this elsewhere but theres no lifestyle forum. Were Straigh guys so we don't belong in the LGBT Section either. so anyways......

There are hardly any other channels , posts or related for me here so I thought Id post and seek out others like minded ....
So lets here it for us Otomen, Metros, Snags, and Girly men !
Any others wanna yell and shout out!
show your pride!

Good luck. I can't even find people without anxiety.

I thought Ottomen was the plural of Ottoman

I've been to salinas. You need to head 100 miles north and pay ridiculous rent in SF to find what you're looking for.

I wouldn't use that word to describe me but I have used "male lesbian" before. I kinda feel like a lesbian trapped in a man's body when it comes to relationships & other things with life. It's not that I want a sex change or anything but the way I act with women seems more like how another women would act with them. I'm very affectionate, like being emotionally supportive, I don't have male hobbies so I'd have an excuse to avoid spending time with women & actually LOVE spending time with my partner, I'm a male feminist, & I'm sort of demisexual(I need a romantic connection to be interested in having sex with anyone & I wanted to have sex with only one person, the person who I would spend the rest of my life with). I'm not interested in stereotypical guy stuff like getting laid, going clubbing to pick up chicks & have bro time, getting drunk, sports, hunting/fishing, cars, home repair/mechanics/power tool stuff. I cant be a provider within a realtionship due to disabilities & only receiving $884 a month in Social Security Disability. I try to make up for it by doing the chores I can like washing dishes, vacuuming, dusting alittle & I would clean the bathroom if my girlfriend didn't want to do it herself cuz of her OCD. I don't really have women interests thou except I will watch chick-flicks if somebody I'm with wants to watch(I don't watch movies much). My hobbies are things both sexes tend to do like watching TV, spending time on computer listening to music, & playing video-games.
I've majorly struggled to find romantic relationships because of all this stuff. Women saw me as a friend & weren't attracted to me. My current girlfriend thinks I'm alittle more feminine & she's alittle more masculine.

Personally, not really girly. Most people describe me as androgynous in behavior. I occasionally crossdress and do some "girly" stuff, but I also like guns, hunting and hiking. But usually I am right in between.

I'm not a girly man, however I am a masculine (yet feminine) woman. I'm tall, strong, enjoy power tools and DIY, and like Clint Eastwood. I'm also feminine, like pink, wear floral dresses, and wear French perfume. Its more fun when people don't try to fit 'traditional' ideas of masculinity and femininity. I kind of think that if I decide to marry one day that I'd probably go for a slightly feminine man, as we would probably balance each other out.

And you like history, obviously, too.

I like the Bayeux Tapestry, too.

I'm not an "all-masculine" man. I'm more like a "person" who has mostly masculine traits. I'm not very good with power tools, like you are.

oh yes! I love history! I didn't include that did I? I guess because it is kind of a 'gender neutral' interest. Actually most of the people in my honours class are women, but it was stereotypically a 'man' occupation back in the days of Carr, Elton, and the like, just consult any history book from the 1950s and you'll see the historian always referred to as 'him'. History is the greatest, and because of my 'super powers' I can remember every English monarch for the last thousand years or so .. right off the top of my head!

In essence, there are very few "gender-specific" interests these days.

Are you quite familiar with the Anglo-Saxon kings, too? I'm familiar with some of those with AE as the two initial letters of their names, like AEthelred, as well as Alfred the Great.

Canute was a Dane---but I believe he was considered an English king for at least a few years around 1015. His son, Harthacanute, ruled briefly, too. Then the Anglo-Saxon threw the Danes out.

Soon afterwards, Edward the Confessor started his reign.

I grew up reading the Columbia Encyclopedia---and, especially, about the English kings.

I really should know more than I actually know.

I've read about Henry VIII in some depth (but so have many people).

It's fascinating how Richard II, at 14 years of age, was able to negotiate with the leaders of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Richard made concessions---but Wat Tyler sort of lost his counsel at one point, and got he and a few other people beheaded for their trouble. Unfortunately, afterwards, Richard II's reign was quite inauspicious. He was deposed in 1399, and died in 1400.

Oh my god! I am so doing an excited happy dance right now! Richard II is one of my favourite kings and I have written essays on him. The Peasant's Revolt is fascinating, and its links to the Black Death. Have you seen the paintings of Richard II? such as the Wilton Diptych? I've only seen pictures of them but they give such a great insight into his views on his absolute right to rule, or what Dr David Starkey called his "intense, solipsistic view of his divine right to rule" (or something to that effect, I'm paraphrasing). I don't know heaps about the Anglo-Saxon kings, however, I think I will know a lot about Harold by the end of the year, as I am writing my honours dissertation on feudalism the Norman Conquest. Canute was fascinating. you know it was the 1000 year anniversary recently (2016) of when he became king?

I grew up reading the World Book Encyclopedias, my mum bought them back in the early nineties when I was about 4 years old. I can't remember a time when I didn't know who Hitler or Henry VIII was.

Have you read the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle? I'm reading chronicles at teh moment for my dissertation.

I've read a little bit of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle---dribs and drabs. Wasn't it started by a guy named "The Venerable Bede?"

I'm not sure (I should know this!), but I was in Westminster Abbey, and I believe I might have saw Dyptich's portrait of Richard II. I believe I was so intimidated by the splendor of the place----that I forgot some of what I saw. I know I saw "The Poet's Corner," where Chaucer is buried.

Richard could have been an idealist when young----maybe some sort of egalitarian. Alas, he "grew up" into somebody with a pharaohnic sort of notion pertaining to how kings should be venerated.

I became interested in Henry VIII because of the famous television miniseries "The Six Wives of Henry VIII," which was produced in 1970.