Thanks, Emma! I like how you speak outside of the standard boxed responses. Very brave and apt essay. I knew a guy in the 90s who dressed nicely and maintained his looks only to fail repeatedly to connect with women who seemed to just assume he was gay. And then came the “metrosexual” label.

Sometimes the only comfort to be found is in humor, even if it is fatalistic like Louis C.K.’s. The following YouTube link is spot on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqITqRWhpxg